New Jersey Candid Camera

This news story has GOT to be a parody:

If there ever was a political honeymoon for Governor Jon Corzine, it appears to be over.

In his first four months in office, the Democrat has proposed an increase in the sales tax and broken a promise to give homeowners dramatic relief from the highest property taxes in the nation.

Corzine's approval ratings have sunk, and fellow Democrats in the Legislature are hesitant to back his budget plan.

"He did a great job as senator. You would just figure it would carry over as governor," said disappointed Democrat Neil Harry Lori, a plumber from Montclair who liked Corzine's liberal record in the Senate, especially his 2002 vote against authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq.

Corzine said he is unmoved by such troubles, arguing that tough decisions are needed to right a state with chronic tax and budget problems.

"It is time we face it directly and squarely," the governor said last week. "It won't always be pretty politics."

I'm telling you, this can't be on the level. It has to be a joke. And April Fool's Day was almost four weeks ago. We're expected to believe that in a state that has been ruined by one-party Donk rule and its high-tax, profligate, suffocatingly regulatory statism, the plumber from Montclair typifies the voters who elected YET ANOTHER DONK to keep the same ruinous one-party rule in place; that he cites as one of his principle reasons Corzine's vote against the Iraq war resolution, which has no relevance to the governorship of New Jersey unless the Fedeyeen Saddam suddenly attack Hackensack; and that he is actually surprised that Corzine would (1) break a tax-cutting promise, (2) raise taxes instead, and (3) be not just unrepentant but actually proud of it.

Honeymoon, my fanny. Watch a recall movement arise in the Garden State (I know, I know, the Jersey courts would squash it no matter what their election law says, but work with me here), Corzine get thrown out on his big, bald, sanctimonious ass, and then Jersey voters replace him - with another Democrat!

Who says you can't skin a cat more than once? And is it any wonder that George Carlin once said, "Kiss her where it smells, take her to New Jersey"?