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Chris Christie put New Jersey back on the path to fiscal sanity. He stood up to the public employee unions and the special interests. The fight is not over, not by a long shot. But for the first time in decades there is hope for our state.

In a rare day at his own job Barry trotted out an unemployed North Jersey man to illustrate how mean Senate Republicans are for blocking an extension to federal jobless benefits. Jim Chukalas of Fredon Township in Sussex County was laid off in September 2008. His 99^th and final unemployment check arrived last week.

"I'm not looking for a handout," said Chukalas, "I'm looking so I can survive so I can get a job and then I can stop receiving the benefits."

But there he was in the Rose Garden, the poster boy for handouts, standing next to the president who claims his policies will help people get back to working again. Jim Chukalas is now 0 for 2. Barry didn't find him a job, and the unemployment fund is still empty. Sorry Jim, you can't eat Hope and Change.

Maybe Jim and Barry can go into the Cap Poop Coffee business. An influential Islamic religious council studied the coffee, made via extracting the beans from the dung of civet cats, and proclaimed it "halal" ("clean"). Well, his early followers did eat Mohammed's poop, so there's a precedent. But still, cat poop? Yet they still refuse to get with 20 feet of a dog?

July 20, 1969, 4:18 PM — The Eagle has Landed! What happened to our giant leap for mankind?

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