2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI Wouldn't Mind Making Chris Christie Head Of Homeland Security
"Better to have him pissing outside the tent than pissing in it."
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Alekei_Firebird
(320 posts)I'm sure he has bigger ambitions than to be governor or a cabinet member. The GOP won't touch him if he's sullied by The Kenyan.
zebe83
(143 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)TomClash
(11,344 posts)I want nothing to do with Christie.
amborin
(16,631 posts)this is just one damning blurb I happen to have handy:
"Gov. Christie and the Tunnel ProjectPublished: April 12, 2012
Christie Stands by His Decision to Cancel Train Tunnel (April 11, 2012)
Report Disputes Christies Basis for Halting Tunnel (April 10, 2012)
"If you find yourself in a stopped train in a Hudson River tunnel, or in a vehicle on a choked highway, in coming years, at least you will know why. In his drive to become the darling of the cut-costs-at-all-costs Republican crowd, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey ignored real economic analysis and relied on exaggerated worst-case scenarios to kill the largest public transit project in the nation in 2010
The project, two new rail passages under the Hudson River, would have vastly improved the regions economy, the environment and the lives of millions of commuters. The federal government and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were providing most of the $10 billion needed to build the tunnels. But Mr. Christie said they were going to cost a lot more than that and that New Jersey would be on a never-ending hook.
Now, a report from the Government Accountability Office makes it clear that the cost-cutting talk was political bluster. Mr. Christie estimated that the project could cost more than $14 billion, of which New Jersey would have had to pay 70 percent if you counted federal stimulus dollars and Port Authority money. The report said later federal estimates ranged from $9.8 billion to $12.4 billion and that the states real share was 14.4 percent. The benefits would have been huge. Today, traffic moves under the Hudson River through two 100-year-old tunnels that are nearly at capacity at peak travel times. With projections that transit demands in this area will increase 38 percent by 2030, the new tunnels would have allowed twice as many trains during rush hour, 48 per hour instead of 23.
The report, which Mr. Christie continues to dispute, cited estimates that home values and tax revenues would have risen, and that the construction would have added $9 billion to the regional economy. But Mr. Christie wanted to use the tunnel money to avoid adding a few cents to the states gasoline tax, the nations second lowest. He was thinking about his career, not his constituents. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/opinion/gov-chris-christie-and-the-tunnel-project.html
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Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)He's an ass and doesn't need to be anywhere near the White House. The dude is doing his damn job as the Governor. Good for him. Next week he'll go back to being an ass.
LovePeacock
(225 posts)to make these conservative shitheads into halfway decent people.
Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)...until they need it.
LovePeacock
(225 posts)"Take your gubment hands off my medicare" should be the republican mantra, chanted at each and every event republicans attend.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)I don't get it. Bullshit shouted as no-nonsense truths is still bullshit.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)He would not fit in with the Obama administration. He is rude and hateful.
Californians do not put up with his kind of behavior. We are more civilized than that.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)This was a nice moment but he's a repuke and repuke's have an agenda, and not don't play nice, worse he'll use this against Obama