Th New York Post front page has it right: after all his big talk about 'taking full respnosiblity' he then spends 4 hours insisting that he is to blame for noting at all, except, maybe being to loyal to his people. He never even wonders why those he chooses to be his people have such a predilection for such political treachery.
I mean, in reviewing the 'Christy Emails' which are today's version of the Nixon Tapes we see what can only be described as a 'culture of corruption' where deliberately harming citizens of the state you are supposed to serve is a delightful joke.
"To this point, Chris Christie has treated the George Washington Bridge closure story as a joke, and national reporters have regarded it as a minor irritation. The public release of e-mails among his staff changes all that. The e-mails prove that Christie’s loyalists closed the bridge deliberately as political retribution, not as a “traffic study” as claimed. They display an almost comical venality bordering on outright sociopathy. And they will probably destroy Christie’s chances in 2016."
"The bridge story itself, while small in nature, reveals a political culture around Christie of people who have no business holding power. Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy on Christie’s senior staff, e-mailed David Wildstein, a Christie appointee on the Port Authority, which runs the George Washington Bridge, instructing, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” The resulting hours-long traffic jams worried public officials and created a safety hazard. Wildstein proceeded to gloat over the punishment:"
“Is it wrong that I’m smiling,” the recipient of the text message responded to Wildstein. The person’s identity is not clear because the documents are partially redacted for unknown reasons. “No,” Wildstein wrote in response."
“I feel badly about the kids,” the person replied to Wildstein. “I guess.” “They are the children of Buono voters,” Wildstein wrote.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3109751/posts
As I've suggested in previous posts this story will have legs. There's no way its ever completely forgotten. As the New Republic points out one very unfortunate aspect for Christy is how easy it is for the public to understand-as opposed to financial derivatives. subprime securitization, and CDOs .Also, this is anything but an isolated incident as much as this is how Christy is trying to spin it.
http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/01/09/3141001/aide-fired-vendetta/
It also is a real live conspiracy. Usually if you say that you had trouble coming home today because the Republican Governor of New Jersey had it in for you because you're a Democrat you'd be labeled wild-eyed conspiracy theorist. However, in this case you'd be right.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/01/chris-christy-and-george-washington.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
Indeed, it turns out it was this seemly underside of Christy's tenure that made him unthinkable for the Romney campaign
"Several things come together to make this scandal especially devastating to Christie. One is that it’s very easy for voters to understand: He punished a town because its mayor endorsed his rival. There are no complex financial transfers or legal maneuverings to parse. Second, it fits into a broader pattern of behavior, documented by the New York Times, of taking retribution against politicians who cross him in any way. There is, in all likelihood, much more. Mark Halperin and my colleague John Heilemann reported in their book about the 2012 campaign that Mitt Romney wanted to put Christie on his ticket, but his staff was “stunned by the garish controversies lurking in the shadows of his record”:
For now Christy's plan is to 'accept responsibility' while admitting to doing nothing at all other than maybe being a little too trusting of the people who work for him. The best argument for him not knowing yet was bu Rudolph Gulliani who argued that he surely wouldn't have mocked reporters asking him about the bridge if he knew about this.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/01/rudy-guilianis-chris-christy-defense.html
Christy also argued during his acceptance of responsibility-by admitting to being responsible for nothing-by saying 'I am what I am but I'm no bully.' With Gulliani's argument, though, we should believe it precisely because he is a bully. Just so-like all bullies he hasn't apologized for mocking those who spoke the truth.
I mean, in reviewing the 'Christy Emails' which are today's version of the Nixon Tapes we see what can only be described as a 'culture of corruption' where deliberately harming citizens of the state you are supposed to serve is a delightful joke.
"To this point, Chris Christie has treated the George Washington Bridge closure story as a joke, and national reporters have regarded it as a minor irritation. The public release of e-mails among his staff changes all that. The e-mails prove that Christie’s loyalists closed the bridge deliberately as political retribution, not as a “traffic study” as claimed. They display an almost comical venality bordering on outright sociopathy. And they will probably destroy Christie’s chances in 2016."
"The bridge story itself, while small in nature, reveals a political culture around Christie of people who have no business holding power. Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy on Christie’s senior staff, e-mailed David Wildstein, a Christie appointee on the Port Authority, which runs the George Washington Bridge, instructing, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” The resulting hours-long traffic jams worried public officials and created a safety hazard. Wildstein proceeded to gloat over the punishment:"
“Is it wrong that I’m smiling,” the recipient of the text message responded to Wildstein. The person’s identity is not clear because the documents are partially redacted for unknown reasons. “No,” Wildstein wrote in response."
“I feel badly about the kids,” the person replied to Wildstein. “I guess.” “They are the children of Buono voters,” Wildstein wrote.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3109751/posts
As I've suggested in previous posts this story will have legs. There's no way its ever completely forgotten. As the New Republic points out one very unfortunate aspect for Christy is how easy it is for the public to understand-as opposed to financial derivatives. subprime securitization, and CDOs .Also, this is anything but an isolated incident as much as this is how Christy is trying to spin it.
http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/01/09/3141001/aide-fired-vendetta/
It also is a real live conspiracy. Usually if you say that you had trouble coming home today because the Republican Governor of New Jersey had it in for you because you're a Democrat you'd be labeled wild-eyed conspiracy theorist. However, in this case you'd be right.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/01/chris-christy-and-george-washington.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
Indeed, it turns out it was this seemly underside of Christy's tenure that made him unthinkable for the Romney campaign
"Several things come together to make this scandal especially devastating to Christie. One is that it’s very easy for voters to understand: He punished a town because its mayor endorsed his rival. There are no complex financial transfers or legal maneuverings to parse. Second, it fits into a broader pattern of behavior, documented by the New York Times, of taking retribution against politicians who cross him in any way. There is, in all likelihood, much more. Mark Halperin and my colleague John Heilemann reported in their book about the 2012 campaign that Mitt Romney wanted to put Christie on his ticket, but his staff was “stunned by the garish controversies lurking in the shadows of his record”:
For now Christy's plan is to 'accept responsibility' while admitting to doing nothing at all other than maybe being a little too trusting of the people who work for him. The best argument for him not knowing yet was bu Rudolph Gulliani who argued that he surely wouldn't have mocked reporters asking him about the bridge if he knew about this.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/01/rudy-guilianis-chris-christy-defense.html
Christy also argued during his acceptance of responsibility-by admitting to being responsible for nothing-by saying 'I am what I am but I'm no bully.' With Gulliani's argument, though, we should believe it precisely because he is a bully. Just so-like all bullies he hasn't apologized for mocking those who spoke the truth.
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