Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Chris Christie's career continues to crumble beneath the weight of his arrogance.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s one-hour-and-forty-seven-minute self-serving, self-pitying display of contrition on Thursday was a climactic act in a brazen cover-up that threatens to further unravel his political career.
Ever so thoroughly the governor scoured the thesaurus for words of apology, regret and painless self-flagellation while nervily playing the victim and mercilessly destroying the aide who played only a supporting role for the George Washington Bridge political revenge plot.
Christie needed blood to express his outrage to the public, so he drew it from deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly for the sin, the governor said, of lying to him. Perhaps, Kelly did lie, although it seems incredible that anyone would flat-out attempt to deceive an intense, emergency inquiry.
Regardless, Christie made roadkill of Kelly and his former campaign manager while wholly exempting the close pals who were central to the lane-closure conspiracy that caused four days of gridlock and dangerously slowed emergency response in Fort Lee. Pathetic.
Ouch!
As if that were not enough of a shit sandwich for Christie to choke down there are many, many more servings headed his way.
One such serving is coming in the form of newly released documents which show that Governor Christie met with the Port Authority one week before the lane closures.
This was the statement by the New Jersey lawmaker leading the investigation:
“As with so much else we’ve discovered during this investigation, these documents raise many more questions. It’s obvious that senior members of the governor’s staff were involved in spin control once this story broke.
“Given everything we’ve seen and heard, there are two glaring questions that exist right now.
“How much of the full picture was the governor’s senior staff given regarding the development of this lane closure project? With the tight control this administration maintains, it doesn’t stretch the imagination that they were given more information than they let on. When they were preparing spin control, how could they not have been given the whole story?
“Secondly, the documents submitted by David Wildstein and his attorney are documents they deemed specifically related to the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge as per our subpoena request. Included in these documents is a reference to what appears to be a meeting between Port Authority Chairman David Samson and the governor one week before Bridget Kelly issued the order to cause ‘traffic problems’ in Fort Lee. By submitting these documents, Mr. Wildstein is telling us they are related to the lane closures in some way. The question that demands answering is how?
“These are just two of the many answers we will be seeking in the days and weeks ahead.”
O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Then there are the lawsuits heading his way due to the closures themselves:
Six New Jersey residents have filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Chris Christie, the state of New Jersey, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and others over traffic jams in September.
The suit filed in federal court Thursday appears to be the first civil claim over traffic that appear to have been caused as political punishment for the Fort Lee mayor.
The plaintiffs want it certified as a class action.
I have a feeling that these lawsuits are only the beginning, and that soon Christie will find his administration buried under legal paperwork and lawyer's fees.
But remember, he's not a bully.
Except, of course, he is.
I know that Fox News and many on the Right want this whole thing to blow over so they continue with their plans to slim Christie down, beef up his credentials, and polish his rough edges enough to run him against Hillary in 2016.
But I'm sorry, when it talks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and looks like it ate a whole flock of ducks, that is NOT somebody who is going to stand much of a chance on the national stage.
I mean how careless can the GOP be when it comes to choosing their Republican saviors? I mean the only thing dumber than choosing this arrogant bullying bag of wind, would be to send a team into the frozen backwoods of an isolated state, pluck the most ignorant, least educated female they could find, and then stick her on the national ticket without first vetting her enough to uncover a fake pregnancy and a husband who was into human trafficking.
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