Chris Christie traffic scandal: An end to presidential plans?

Christie Knew About Lane Closings, Ex-Port Authority Official Says

F U Christie. A thug and a liar.

Yes, I choose to believe this total stranger to me because it confirms my image of Christie. Typical Chicago politician using his power to punish his enemies and reward his friends (like Obama).

 

and Bush (Heckuva job Brownie).

 

Why would complementing an employee be an abuse of the power granted him by the voters? What power are u referring to? The power to compliment? I have that.

 

Christie's got bigger problems than a bridge closing. The man may seriously be looking at removal from office and possible criminal charges.

 

The power to appoint a personal friend to a position that he was completely unqualified for.

 

Stick a fork in the fat man....he's done.

 

He's toast, but he was a legit frontrunner. Conservatives never liked him, Democrats despise him, and he has a toxic personality. I think Cruz wins the nomination, puts a female on the ticket and Democrats win in a blow out.

 

I meant to say never a legitimate frontrunner, though the media pretended he was.

 

Off topic but I read he had one of those lap band procedures done months ago but he doesn't look like he's lost a pound. Very weird.

 

But we are tolerant and do not care about that.

 

Democrats dislike him now, but before the scandal, his appeal at the national level was that lots of Democrats (and more importantly, independents) thought very highly of him, both in NJ and nationally. He was always going to struggle in a GOP primary, but in a general election, he was the favorite and would likely have won an election a month ago.

Oddly, this scandal might actually help him in a GOP primary (establishes his screw-the-Democrats credentials) but obviously hurt him in the general because the non-partisan appeal is gone.

 

Amazing the disparity between coverage of a traffic jam vs. the murder of four Americans in Benghazi. And I can't stand Christie.

He's learning early if the media makes you, they can also destroy you. When you trash your base to win media favor and the media inevitably turns on you, there's no one left to support you.

 

Yeah, Benghazi got no coverage at all.

But besides that, one is a scandal, one is not - no matter how much the right wants it to be. Or at least, all the investigations thus far have cleared all the politicians involved and found some incompetence but no scandal.

The Christie stuff has been around for months - it got no coverage at all until there was clear, definitive evidence of political corruption (whether by Christie or underlings). If such evidence was found in the Benghazi situation, you'd have far more coverage. But despite trying their best, the GOP just hasn't found any - and their own members routinely admit that.

 

Seriously!!??

How long did it take for the federal govt to do anything?

Granted, Bush was off in San Diego stroking the military's meat, Condi was shopping on Michigan Avenue and watching Spamalot, Cheney was fishing (I think), and a lot of people who didn't vote for them were suffering.

But "Good job Brownie."

 

Is that when he "accidentally" shot his friend? What a joke

 

I don't know, how long DID it take the federal government to do "anything" after the state had done what it needed to do to allow the feds to act?

 

Amazing the disparity between treatment of an incident where a politician did something as political payback and is now having it blow back in his face and a tragic incident where Americans were killed overseas, without fault due to politicians, save the ones who cut State Department funding.

Some of us still haven't learned that Fox "News" is all about keeping the sheep distracted on non-scandals like Benghazi or the IRS so that the lobbyists can continue to extract the most value possible from Main Street wallets.

 

From Popular Mechanics

In fact, the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest--and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history, with nearly 100,000 emergency personnel arriving on the scene within three days of the storm's landfall.

Dozens of National Guard and Coast Guard helicopters flew rescue operations that first day--some just 2 hours after Katrina hit the coast. Hoistless Army helicopters improvised rescues, carefully hovering on rooftops to pick up survivors. On the ground, "guardsmen had to chop their way through, moving trees and recreating roadways," says Jack Harrison of the National Guard. By the end of the week, 50,000 National Guard troops in the Gulf Coast region had saved 17,000 people; 4000 Coast Guard personnel saved more than 33,000.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/natural-disasters/2315076

 

he's Jersey through and through