NY Daily News editorial on Christie is brutal

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

"To human misery, gentlemen!"

In the best possible light, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie built a top staff of lying thugs who threatened lives and safety to serve his political ends. If not, Christie is a lying thug himself.

Emails and text messages among his close aides made public Wednesday documented that in September they gleefully engineered George Washington Bridge lane closures to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee for failing to endorse their boss’ reelection.
Local officials say the gridlock they caused delayed ambulances in responding to four calls, including one involving an unconscious 91-year-old woman who later died.

Christie’s presidential ambitions are all but kaput, as he will be lambasted and lampooned as a man of low character and horrible judgment — again viewing him in the most favorable way.

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Give full credit to his statement, and Christie stands as a hardball-playing governor who horribly misjudged or distorted the character of those around him and compounded the felony by trying to skate by their wrongdoing without full investigation. Take his denials of knowledge with skepticism, and the man is a monster.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/christie-waterloo-article-1.1570246#ixzz2psstOx51

[loyalsister]

1. My level of disdain and disgust

of this governor grows daily.

[Cha]

2. Let's recap..

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Let's recap. #BridgeGate happened because Christie didn't get an endorsement he didn't need. He was winning by 30 points.
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http://theobamadiary.com/2014/01/08/lunch-time/

That's a perfect pic and caption denoting Christie and his Admin's Contempt for all those who are not kissing his ass.

From your link..

"For months, responsibility remained clouded. During that time, Christie made light of the charges. He joked that the press was suggesting he had moved traffic cones personally. Last month, he described the affair as “not that big a deal.” He supported Baroni’s story that the lane closures were part of a traffic study."[/]

Ass Meet Bite. The stupid burns.. they couldn't come up with a better story than that?

"He closed the lanes on Sept. 9, bringing traffic to a standstill. Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich then began pressing Baroni for help.


“Presently we have four very busy traffic lanes merging into only one toll booth,” he texted. The bigger problem is getting kids to school. Help please. It’s maddening.”

Mayor Mark Sokolich has been nothing but stellar this whole time..

thanks Adenoid

[TeamPooka]

3. A Bridge Too Far. nt

[rocktivity]

10. That's "A BRIDGET Too Far" To YOU!

rocktivity

[TeamPooka]

11. lol

[Whisp]

12. There's got to be room for Jeff Bridges in there somewhere as well...

[malaise]

4. He is a monster

a fugging ReTHUG bully.

The comments are delish!

[LuvNewcastle]

5. This is all very Nixonian.

The Watergate Complex was burglarized because of Nixon's desire to get a leg up the Democratic Party. The funny thing was, Nixon didn't need a leg up; he was already popular and stood to win re-election handily. Christie was in a similar position politically. He didn't need Sokolich's endorsement in the Governor's race, yet he still had to punish Sokolich for not endorsing him.

Someone who is petty and thin-skinned shouldn't get into politics. They have more to lose from getting retribution than they do from taking their lumps and letting it go.

[Enthusiast]

6. All recent Republican administrations have been vindictive.

Starting with Nixon and including Bush the Lesser. This is a characteristic of Republicanism.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I wish my local paper would dig into politicians like that.

[humbled_opinion]

8. LOL response from the teabaggers

at my work....

"Great article, I don't particularly like Christie but you could replace Christie with Obama and the bridge scandal with, Benghazi, IRS targeting Conservatives, Fast and Furious, etc in this article and it would be the same."

So now if the left holds a Republican accountable for thuggary somehow we are hypocrites because according to them Obama gets away with it....

This will probably be the highlight on Limbaugh today...

Idiots...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. Christie lied

People died.


Fucking repukes.

[MrModerate]

13. He's down, but is he out?

Remember we're talking Republicans. They'll vote for known bullies and liars in a heartbeat.

(I was going to put in some names at the "bullies" and "liars" part of this comment, and then I realized that once I'd started listing them, I wouldn't be able to stop.)