Chris Christie's Entire Career Reeks
By Alec MacGillis
2/12/14
Has there ever been a political reversal of fortune as rapid and as absolute as the one just experienced by Chris Christie? At warp speed, the governor of New Jersey has gone from the most popular politician in the country to the most embattled; from the Republicans’ brightest hope for 2016 to a man with an FBI target on his back. One minute, he was releasing jokey vanity videos starring Alec Baldwin and assorted celebrity pals; the next, he was being ridiculed by his lifelong idol, Bruce Springsteen. Mere weeks ago, Christie was a straight-talking, corruption-busting everyman. Now, he is a liar, a bully, a buffoon.
What is remarkable about this meltdown is that it isn’t the result of some deep secret that has been exposed to the world, revealing a previously unimagined side to the candidate. Many of the scandals and mini-scandals and scandals-within-scandals that the national media is salivating over have been in full view for years. Even the now-infamous Bridgegate was percolating for months before it exploded into the first major story of the next presidential race.
Case in point: Last year, just before Thanksgiving, I traveled to Trenton to see Bill Baroni, Christie’s top staff appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, get grilled by state legislators about the closure of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in September. It was clear that something fishy was going on. Baroni gave a command performance, defending the closures as part of a traffic study, but more than that, as a matter of justice. Discussing whether Fort Lee deserved three dedicated lanes during rush hour, Baroni demanded, “Is this fair?” His voice actually cracked with emotion. “And if it is not fair, how do you not study it?” But there were only a handful of reporters in the room to witness his melodramatics, and it was six weeks before the national media caught on to the story. Outside New Jersey, at least, it seemed inconceivable that Christie, good-government evangelist, scourge of Soprano State shenanigans, could preside over a piece of payback so outrageous and so petty.
Now, of course, we know that there was no traffic study and that the lanes were deliberately shut to punish the mayor of Fort Lee, who had declined to endorse Christie for reelection. (“Is it wrong that I’m smiling,” crowed a Christie aide in a text message, even as congestion got so dire that ambulance workers were forced to respond to an emergency on foot.) We also know that this act of retribution wasn’t an isolated incident: The mayor of Hoboken, to name just one example, has claimed that Christie’s office pressured her to approve a big development project represented by a Christie crony—or risk losing recovery aid for damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116601/chris-christies-rise-and-fall
It's a long read, but it's quite enlightening. It demonstrates how Christie's political career has been rooted in quicksand from the very beginning. It also shows how NJ politics have been seeped in corruption for decades.
Politics aside, Christie does not have the temperament and character to be president.
I had originally posted this article on "Latest Breaking News", but the moderators shut it down. Whatever.........
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I've been reading this one, still not done yet. It is a very long read.
So I guess $350,000 raised for GW 2000 Presidential campaign will buy you a seat as U.S. Attorney? 
Yes, it's a long read. I was able to read it this morning since I'm not at work due to the Nor'easter that hit a good part of the country.
Yep, that's how he became U.S. Attorney, it's the Jersey way......
She later said that she almost started crying. That wouldn't have been my reaction. I don't like people yelling at me and I don't care if the guy is the governor. I would have yelled right back at him.
He may yet rebound and we need to know these things in case he does run for president.
We don't know much about Mary Pat, other than that fixed smile she shows in public.
she looks at him like he's absolutely nuts.
Watch for it. It happens fairly often.
It happened when he was swearing in as governor.
We don't know much about Mary Pat
We know she has horrible taste in clothes. That dress she wore to the swearing in was mind-boggling in its design and lines. Whenever I look at this woman, I think of two things:
a) what were you thinking?
and
b) Mary Joe Buttafuoco. Looks just like her.
Here's another one of her horrible dresses:
Oh, and there's one more thing I think when I see her: how can you sleep with that pig?
Cher
At least the Romneys looked like they came out of a presidential central casting.
perhaps should be looking into? I Bookmarked it too because the information that seems to be coming out on the news gets hard to follow and this would be good to be able to refer back to. 
I read somewhere that Christie was a jerk even in school.
Lawrence O'Donnell is talking about this article right now.
Christie can sound reasonable, if you don't scratch the surface too much. Tea Partiers, like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, always go over the line and blow it. For example, Republicans in the Senate are ready to throttle Cruz. He forced them to vote with the Democrats on the debt ceiling bill due to his threat to filibuster.
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BTW, he's in Puerto Rico with his family for the long weekend. I'm grateful that no one has yet posted pics of him by the pool.
He is so clueless. I am convinced that he truly does not understand the predicament he is in.
Cher