You know what's so sweet about the Chris Christie scandals?

[warrior1]

It was all self inflicted.

But it took the local reporters to do the hard work that we haven't seen in a while.

What do they call that...


(idiomatic) To be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb".

He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.

[onehandle]

1. I still think he would have been rejected by core Republicans as a nominee.

But it is sweet to see this rolling implosion in action.

[warrior1]

2. your probably right

But it seems that the big money guys were going to put all their $$ on him.

Talk about a rudderless party.

[reusrename]

13. That's what's so unnerving about this whole saga.

The tea-baggers, who never would have accepted him before, have all sort of glommed onto the guy. They see him as a victim of the left now and therefore he is no longer a RINO. He could win a primary in two years if he isn't indicted. If he survives this then chances are he will win the Whitehouse.

[madinmaryland]

3. I call it real journalism. nt

[Jim__]

4. O, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet.

There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar'; and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,
When in one line two crafts directly meet.

[warrior1]

5. nice

[Glitterati]

6. I think his paralysis is the sweetest

that "shit, shit, shit" look on his face, his inability to figure out how to move past it. His fear that the next shoe is going to drop every second he is in public.

The bully is terrified. He knows there's lots more to be found and he's frightened someone is actually going to find it.

I'm enjoying watching this bully shit himself every time a camera is pointed at him.

[warrior1]

7. I think less and less people are afraid of him

[MoonRiver]

8. I'm just loving it!

How sweeeeet it is!

[cheyanne]

9. it's called "hoist on one's own petard"

why I don't know

[TexasProgresive]

12. A petard was a small charge used to blast open gates or a hole in the walls

and as anything farty is funny a petard is also a fart.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

10. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."

- Sir Walter Scott

[rocktivity]

11. But he WOULD have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that meddling reporter

Once upon a time, an office complex security guard called the cops when he realized that someone had broken in, thereby launching the scandal after which all other scandals have been named:




All Bergen Record reporter Shawn Boburg did was wonder why a local traffic closure protocol had not been followed:

How a local reporter broke the Christie story

Christie not only knew about the lane closures, he had to have helped set it up. He planned it from ensuring that there were no air pollution monitors working (which would have set off an alarm and forced an end to the closures) to trying to make his chief of staff the next attorney general (which would have made it easy to disable any state-level investigation).

Governor Soprano's big mistake was not realizing that anything affecting the Port Authority of New York AND New Jersey could be investigated federally (including a look at how he's using the Sandy funds). And if it's true that he called the New York Governor's office to complain that someone on the New York side of the PA was being too nosy, that's where he inflicted himself: it makes him a full-fledged participant in the coverup if not the crime itself.


rocktivity

[Lunacee_2013]

14. It's a real scandal?

Unlike Bengal or the I.R.S....

[lindysalsagal]

15. Yes,Virginia, there really is a scandal clause!