It's a pity they both can't lose: NJ econuts are at war - with each other

Break out the popcorn folks, we've got ourselves a cat fight! The leaders of New Jersey's two biggest environmental groups are fighting mad — at each other.

Once best friends, [Jeff] Tittel and [David] Pringle now act like bitter enemies, and their spat threatens to divide the environmental movement at a critical time.

Good. Every minute they spend fighting each other is one less minute they can use toward foisting more idiotic regulations on us.

So, why are they fighting? Chris Christie! Pringle wants to work with the governor, Tittel reflexively loathes all Republicans. And since Christie won't bow down and french-kiss Mother Gaia whenever he commands it, Tittel is cheesed off at Pringle for selling out.

Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University, calls out the real issue here:

"It tells you a lot about how the leaders of so many of these interest groups are driven by their own egos."

Say it isn't so! The ecowarriors are benignly altruistic, aren't they? Putting Mother Nature first, but for the good of mankind, they just can't be in it for self-aggrandizement! That would be so, hypocritical. Oh but then you read about how Al Gore has morphed environmentalism into population control and you gotta wonder, are these guys for real?

Because I'm not interested in dying for Gaia. I'm pretty sure you're not down with that idea either. So like I said, the longer Chris Christie can keep the econuts off balance, the better it is for people like you and me.

Posted at 15:59 by Chris Wysocki   [/nj_politics]   Comments | Perm Link |
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