Lawmakers Approve Christie Plan to Slash Sales Tax on Yachts in NJ

Four of the 32 Republicans also voted for the override: Christopher Brown, R-Atlantic; Jack Ciattarelli, R-Somerset; Amy Handlin, R-Monmouth; and Jay Webber, R-Morris.

Christie has been on this kick for a while, but it will be getting new attention thanks to the uptick in his fortunes this week.

The Assembly vote was suspended on Thursday, after falling short of the support needed to rebuke the Republican governor, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination.

But Scott Rumana, a Republican lawmaker, said the law had “a loophole as big as a Mack truck” and echoed Christie’s calls for more comprehensive solutions.

Christie has distanced himself from his state’s tough gun laws on the campaign trail, and what he calls his evolving views on the Second Amendment have riled up New Jersey Democrats who say he’s pandering to a more conservative electorate out of state.

Christie claimed that if a “center for the developmentally disabled… can be a target for a terrorist attack, then every place in America” could be one, too.

Christie conceded his own dealings with worldwide relations have been limited, but compared himself favorably to the President, whom he criticized sharply for not taking more aggressive action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Bosse didn’t like that, responding Tuesday night on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes.

“So my point to you-it is operational, because he’s never run anything before, nor have most of the people around him, the ones he listens to, and there’s no strategy”, Christie continued. Republicans objected, saying that shooting appears unrelated to the issue before New Jersey.

In a new survey released Thursday by Public Policy Polling, Christie jumped to fourth place in the Granite State with 10% support among likely Republican voters. Marco Rubio (R-FL), pointing out the freshman senator’s lack of experience and his urgent pursuit of the presidency.

He said that he was aware of the reaction against his remarks, and acknowledged, “I’ve seen the emails I’ve gotten since I said what I said and the Facebook posts and all the rest”. If you’re unsure that you can listen to somber reminisces turn into generic, self-absorbed bragging about a resume for the presidency, you may want to ask your doctor if Chris Christie is right for you.

“I think that kind of attitude helps ISIS”, Kean said in an interview.

At the end of last week, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the most widely circulated state paper in New Hampshire, endorsed Christie.

In addition to the comment about Obama, Christie also dropped an “a-” during a reference to Bruce Springsteen, further reaffirming an argument from the New York Times that the Republicans are swearing more and turning it into the “inaugural profanity party”.

“Today’s attempt was just a first step”, he said in a statement. He rolled out a series of endorsements from top New Hampshire activists. We’ve got a lot of bad things going on.