So Christie is heading to Florida for a Rick Scott fundraising

[malaise]

Given what's coming this week including no support for his new AG and a whole pile of new subpoenas, the fun has just begun.

Who will shun him in Florida - the water boy Rubio I say for starters.

Please stock up on popcorn.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. I thought this was a joke till I googled.

He ought to go into a coma for a while.

[malaise]

2. Well that should be good for Florida Democrats

[tulsakatz]

12. yes it should!

whose bright idea was to try to raise money with Christie? Obviously it was arranged awhile ago...

[malaise]

4. Indeed

Welcome to DU

[Cha]

5. I just finished a big bowl of popcorn..

I'm stuffed!

I saw that the other day but there was so much else going on. those supporting rick scott will probably welcome Christie and laugh at all his stupid cone jokes. We'll see.. scott and Christie deserve each other.

[malaise]

6. Stock up on popcorn -Samson should resign or be fired tomorrow

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/emails-port-authority-bridge-closure-violate-law-christie
<snip>
On Thursday, Christie expressed confidence that Samson played no part in causing the Fort Lee traffic disaster, saying, "I am convinced that he had absolutely no knowledge of this, that this was executed at the operational level and never brought to the attention of the [Port Authority] board of commissioners." Yet when Foye ordered the lanes reopened on September 13, David Wildstein, a Christie appointee at the Port Authority official wrote to a Christie staffer, "We are appropriately going nuts. Samson helping us to retaliate."

And another email released on Friday indicates that the Christie crew was worried about Foye. On September 18, Samson wrote Scott Rechler, the vice chair of the Port Authority Board of Commissioners,* that he strongly suspected Foye of "stirring up trouble" by speaking anonymously to a Wall Street Journal reporter about the Fort Lee traffic debacle. He went on: "This is yet another example of a story—we've seen it before—where [Foye] distances himself from an issue in the press and rides in on a white horse to save the day In this case, he's playing in traffic, made a big mistake."


These emails were released as part of a collection of hundreds of emails and text messages that journalists and investigators are now scrutinizing. Read them here.

[Cha]

7. They should have been thanking Pat Foye..

he was trying to save them from themselves to no avail. Wtf.. they were Vendetta Full Steam Ahead.. nothing was going to stop their stupid dangerous folly.

[malaise]

10. That was never on their minds

Don't rule out Christie having a health crisis later this week to avoid that Florida trip

[DFW]

9. At least Christie will be in good company

They seem to share a common opinion about how important it is (or, in their cases, isn't) to observe the law even when people aren't looking.

[malaise]

11. They are all

ReTHUGs

[HockeyMom]

13. I am not a Bully

meets I am not a Crook. Perfect.

[karynnj]

15. That was my husband's instant reaction to that part of Christie's comments

To be non partisan - add

"I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinski"

Note that in all three, some will try to argue the meanings of the words, but I hope in this case - like the other two - it becomes one of the most remembered things the person ever said.

Maybe it is than in each instance, they are boldly and with no caveats denying that they did something most people have begun to think they did. In Nixon's case, having allowed things that were not legal (even if just obstructing justice), in Clinton's acting inappropriately (whether it was a person's definition of sex or not), and here being something that there is PLENTY of video showing he was, but which somehow he media recast as "straight shooter' and colorful personality.

In a way, this might be the most deserved. Christie had several enormous lucky breaks. Corzine would not retire when he had had awful numbers and no Democrat wanted to go up against his money. In addition, in local Morris County, he was considered politically dead after his first term as freeholder, when the other Republicans recruited someone else to run with them as a team - because they couldn't tolerate Christie - and he lost the primary. (Morris County has not had a single Democrat on the board in 100 years.)

[mdbl]

14. I still don't understand...

how Rick Scott got in or is still in office. Everyone I talk to that lives in Fla can't stand him.

[malaise]

16. My family in Florida can't understand either

but I remember Florida 2000 very well

[HockeyMom]

24. Blame Alex Sink and Dems

for not contesting the less than 1% majority that Scott got.

[tom_kelly]

17. God, please don't let Rick Scott cancel this... n/t

[SmittynMo]

18. Scott and Christie

Neither are for the betterment of the people. I was told Christie is still sitting on funds from the last NJ disaster? Why?
Scott - Lets drug test all recipients of government entitlements. That failed miserably.

What kind of idiots are we placing in power? GOP idiots.

Get out and VOTE in the next election.

[CanonRay]

19. He probably begged to go

he's got to get away from the New York/Jersey press for a while.

[Mike Nelson]

20. I hope so...

...hope there are a lot of photo ops with Scott and Christie holding hands! (though I doubt there will be)

[lpbk2713]

21. Danger! Danger!

When these two forces meet I predict a black hole of assholery.

[spanone]

22. one slimeball fundraising for another slimeball....

synergy

[malaise]

26. I didn't even realize that he is delivering the state of the state on

Tuesday

Thanks Karen Finey for tearing them a new one re the IRS and Benghazi. Alter is doing well/

Says Christie threw Kelly and the others off the bridge

[spanone]

27. that's funny!

[malaise]

28. The state of the state of the bridge scandal

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. McFraudy, meet McThuggy. nt

[Orsino]

25. Bilgewater seeking its own level. n/t