Finally! The news we have all been waiting for...
Chris Christie still plans to do his 2016 thing. The Bridgegate story be damned. After all, he had "nothing to do with it." I don't know if he remembers from his time as a US Attorney or not, but you start low and work your way up. The investigation that is going on so far hasn't even scratched the surface as near as I can tell, unless you count his own internal document, which shockingly enough cleared him of all wrong doing.
I apologize for the sidebar, but it is not clear to me why he feels so entitled, but if he hasn't noticed, Americans first off are pretty quickly getting fed up with bullys who do things the way they want, without regard to what the rest of us want. Second, the Republican Party has gone moderate with each of its last two nominees. I would argue longer than that as we are seeing the results of George Bush's term as President where he spent money recklessly to win elections and fight wars that were less than necessary, not to mention the civil liberties questions that continually pop their heads up under Barak Obama, but which clearly started post-9/11. Nonetheless, the politics are simple. If the talking heads nominate another moderate, I suspect the Tea Party folks walk and either go third party or sit on their hands.
All of that though flows back into Chris Christie. Christie has governed as a tough in your face prosecutor, but Democrats are not the accused, they are merely another political party with ideas different than your own. He talks about building consensus, but it sounds like from the stories on Bridgegate, his staff built consensus through political pain.
I am amazed by the brazenness of his staff, which again, makes me think somewhere along the line he nodded his head. His Deputy Chief of Staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, did not get to her position by being stupid. Somewhere along the line she should have realized these emails might end up in the public domain, or did she think her boss was the head of a crime family and simply wouldn't allow these emails to see the light of day? The same with his old high school buddy David Wildstein. These two make kid running for high school class President look smart, but if they were this brazen, why not believe they had the authority from Papa Bear?
I know I am blogging a lot about Chris Christie, but the hubris astounds me of some of the brightest GOP "stars." If this is the best we have, I think we are in serious trouble.
To me, this looks like someone's dreams are going to come crashing down because of the weight of his ego.
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