two words, New Jersey: Special f@cking Prosecutor.

[geek tragedy]

NJ Atty General is appointed by Christie, and can't be trusted to carry out an investigation given the obvious conflict of interest.

Someone with indisputable integrity needs broad subpoena and prosecutorial authority.

[hrmjustin]

1. Great point.

[shenmue]

2. Ding ding ding!

We have a winner.

[okaawhatever]

3. Many don't realize how Christie was as Federal prosecutor. He was on the list to be fired by Bush

until he issued a subpoena for Democratic Senate candidate Robert Menendez two months before the election. The "investigation? found nothing wrong and went no where. The charges were never even identified. Luckily Menendez won anyway, but Christie used his federal prosecutor's office for political purpose so I imagine he'll expect the same thing in return.

What's so bad is this prosecution isn't politically motivated. This isn't someone digging something up from his past and blowing it out of proportion. He did this knowing he was a candidate in 2016. The friggin' hubris.

[hfojvt]

4. that's three words Harry

[geek tragedy]

7. it's an old joke.

Best exemplified in a line from Robert DeNiro to Charles Grodin in Midnight Run:

I got two words for you: Shut the fuck up.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. During his recent election many on DU insisted he was super terrific, elected Democrats

endorsed him in NJ and most national Democrats refused to endorse his opponent. I was told that only extreme right wingers and extreme liberals were unhappy with Christie' win, and the fact is a third of NJ Democrats, such as they are, voted for this corrupt, bigoted, anti choice Republican.
The wagons around Christie are bipartisan and tightly circled.

[geek tragedy]

6. You may be overstating the 'support' that Christie had around here.

And by that, I mean that I did not see any support for him at all, but rather acceding to the reality that he was going to win.

[Laxman]

8. Christie's Margin of Victory...

was more related to a lower turnout in democratic strongholds than overwhelming support. I had posted a map of the electoral results a couple of months ago. The voter numbers in Hudson, Bergen, Union, Mercer and Camden counties were way down. There were many reasons that elected democrats endorsed him... some are just as much in the pockets of the business and development interests as Christie, some were intimidated or "bribed" into submission based upon Christie's control over Sandy aid.