Beginning of the End For Christie?

[JamesL]

(CNN) -- E-mails emerged on Wednesday purportedly from top aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie bolstering the case that access lane closures to the George Washington Bridge were borne from a political vendetta against opponents of the governor, and were not the result of an incompetent traffic study as his administration claimed.

"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie's deputy chief of staff for legislative and intergovernmental affairs, e-mailed David Wildstein, then the highest-level political appointee representing the state at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

That communication occurred roughly three weeks before the access lanes were closed last September, wreaking havoc on traffic from the New Jersey side of the nation's busiest bridge that crosses into New York.

Read the e-mails:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/08/politics/christie-bridge/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

[futurecurrents]

Yeah, supposedly he is a vindictive, dirty, vengeful politician who's not afraid to throw his weight around.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from futurecurrents:

Yeah, supposedly he is a vindictive, dirty, vengeful politician who's not afraid to throw his weight around.

So, the consummate politician then. ; )

 

[Arnie]

I haven't read it yet, but Double Down supposedly makes mention of the Romney team finding out some really bad shit on Christie.

 

[futurecurrents]

Quote from Ricter:

So, the consummate politician then. ; )

Yeah, from Jersey too. What? We should be surprised?

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Arnie:

I haven't read it yet, but Double Down supposedly makes mention of the Romney team finding out some really bad shit on Christie.

Too bad. While a mixed bag, Christie can be a good Keynesian when need be.

 

[Pekelo]

I kind of liked the Fat Fuck*, but there is no way he didn't know about the deal. He didn't ask why we are closing the lanes? (study my ass)Then for weeks he denied there was anything wrong...

Looks like the scandal is good for both parties, because the Reps didn't like him much. But he would have been a viable candidate against Hillary....

Let's see how he deals with it at 11 am....

*I meant morbidly obese

P.S.: Since morbidly obese people don't live very long, and he is 52, his weight is a huge liability for the Presidency....

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Pekelo:

I kind of liked the Fat Fuck*, but there is no way he didn't know about the deal. He didn't ask why we are closing the lanes? (study my ass)Then for weeks he denied there was anything wrong...

Looks like the scandal is good for both parties, because the Reps didn't like him much. But he would have been a viable candidate against Hillary....

Let's see how he deals with it at 11 am....

*I meant morbidly obese

P.S.: Since morbidly obese people don't live very long, and he is 52, his weight is a huge liability for the Presidency....

Apparently he's lost a lot of weight.

 

[Tsing Tao]

I do find it interesting that, even though a republican is involved in a scandal, all the right news orgs are picking it up and running it. Wish we saw the same thing when democrats were guilty of something. When THAT happens, the left "news" sources focus on something abstract and unrelated.

 

[Spike Trader]

only until they had to.


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When the New York Times posted emails on Wednesday morning showing that top aides to New Jersey governor Chris Christie had intentionally caused traffic problems in the city of Fort Lee to get revenge on a political rival, most of the media treated it as a pretty big deal. By the afternoon, it was a rolling nightmare for Christie, the top story on CNN and MSNBC, all over the newspapers, everywhere.

Except, that is, for Fox News, where a lot of people started noticing that Christie's name was barely being uttered:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/fox-news-chris-christie_n_4567231.html