Christie:"Warren Buffet should shut up!"

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Uh, oh! Someone wants to be Mitt's VP.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/a-simple-solution-to-inequality-stop-talking-about-it/2012/02/22/gIQAl1nNTR_blog.html

Travis Waldron catches Brave Truth Teller Chris Christie in a remarkable moment: He’s so visibly annoyed with Warren Buffett for pushing issues of economic and tax fairness to the forefront of the national conversation that he literally tells Buffett to “shut up”.

Here’s the exchange, with CNN’s Piers Morgan:

    MORGAN: You know where I’m going at with that. Warren Buffett keeps screaming to be taxed more.

    CHRISTIE: Yeah, well he should just write a check and shut up. Really. And just contribute. The fact of the matter is that I’m tired of hearing about it. If he wants to give the government more money, he’s got the ability to write a check. Go ahead and write it.

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By the way, the “just shut up” response to inequality is not exclusive to Christie. As you’ll recall, the GOP’s likely standard-bearer, Mitt Romney, recently opined that we should confine our discussion of these matters to "quiet rooms.”

Maybe it’s time to inaugurate the “just shut up” caucus?

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About time someone said it.

I guess you guys are fans of the motto ""freedom of speech is fine as long as you don't do it in public".

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But he's a disgusting guy with no balls who wants to be president.

Hey, cut the guy some slack. Even if he had balls, how the heck would he know it?

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Buffet strikes back.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/212749-buffett-derides-christie-write-a-check-and-shut-up-comments-as-touching-response-to-debt-crisis

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett fired back in an increasingly contentious war of words with Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) Monday, sarcastically calling the governor's suggestion he "just write a check and shut up" a "touching response."

“It’s sort of a touching response to a $1.2 trillion deficit, isn’t it? That somehow the American people will all send in checks and take care of it?” Buffett said in an interview on CNBC.

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Monday, Buffett said Christie's comments were not "eloquent" and largely parroted a similar call from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

“It’s sort of astounding to me that somebody that has the responsibility for being the minority leader in the Senate would think that you attack a $1.2 trillion or so deficit by asking for voluntary contributions,” Buffett said.

Last month, Buffett said he would match any contributions congressional Republicans made to the U.S. Treasury — and triple any donations made by McConnell personally.

"I offered to triple his. But that’s a sideshow. The real problem we have is we’re taking in too little money and we’re spending too much. And that’s not going to be solved by voluntary contributions," Buffett said on CNBC.