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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:51 AM
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The Rude Pundit: Chris Christie Disneyed For Your Snowy Sins
Politicians who say that they couldn't do the job for which they were elected because they promised to take their kids to Disney World should be run out of office on a rail. Of course, this being New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, it'd have to be a reinforced steel rail rather than the traditional wooden one (that's because Christie is morbidly obese, ha-ha). At his press conference defending his decision to abandon his responsibilities as governor in order to fly down to Florida literally a couple of hours before a state of emergency was declared, Christie said, "I wouldn’t change the decision even if I could do it right now. I had a great five days with my children. I promised that." He added that his wife told not to even think about giving up the trip. Apparently, the next time Sarah Palin is telling someone to "man up," she should include the GOP's new porcine hero.

With no due respect, Gov. Christie, fuck your kids. And fuck your wife. You can say, as you did, "I know what my responsibility is. And I know my responsibility as a father. I wanted to be there with my kids," but you just used the oldest excuse in the book and let your apparently whiny fucking children and obviously shrewish wife take the blame for your monumental fuck-up. Here's a tip: if your first responsibility is to your kids' getting to ride Space Mountain on their Christmas break, then don't fucking run for office.

And what a vacation it must have been, since Christie says he was on the phone all the time with the Democratic Acting Governor: "Senator Sweeney and I consulted on all of the significant decisions that needed to be made during the period of my time out of the state." Imagine that: you're getting on the Tower of Terror while your Dad is on the phone "consulting" about decisions at his job while your Mom is screaming about how they haven't had a vacation since Dad was elected. That'd totally fucking suck and you'd just wanna go back to the room at the Polynesian Resort and play with your DS.

Of course, in order for it to suck, it'd have to be true, except it wasn't. Christie wasn't in constant contact, at least according to the man Christie was supposedly talking to. Sweeney told Paul Mulshine of the Newark Star-Ledger, "I never spoke to him the entire time. He and I never spoke until he got back." So either Christie or Sweeney is lying. Who could it be? (Here's a hint: It's Christie.)

None of this is to even get into the whole clusterfuck of coordination between the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, a position just created in Jersey so that the Governor could go to the Magic Kingdom with his horrible wife and selfish kids.

Look, snow happens. Big-ass snow happens, too. But, as Christie knows, with his YouTube snuff flicks of him beating down average Joes and Janes, perception is everything in good times and bad. Christie came home after he made certain his family still loved him and blamed the media, the Democrats, and the local mayors while bizarrely praising the snow removal efforts, which, having driven around a good bit of northern Jersey since the storm, the Rude Pundit can assure you sucked frozen balls. At some point, Christie lovers have to accept that the fat man's just a glory hog who loves to point his greasy, sausage-shaped fingers at everyone else, making a show of being in charge while, in reality, just abdicating when convenient.

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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:56 AM
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1. The people who work on the plows are on 24 hr. call
As are the people who keep the lights on and many others. So doesn't think christie think that they want to spend time with their families as well? These bastards make me sick with their arrogance and their "fuck the little guy" attitude.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 11:05 AM
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3. You Knew The Job Was Dangerous When You Took It...
Christie's a double douche...first for taking off when he knew a bad storm was headed his way and still went. Then for his arrogant response to this. This was a breakdown on a bunch of front...people not being prepared or not having the manpower to tackle so much snow.

The plow drivers aren't to fault, but I'm not going to pity them either. Yep, they're on 24/7 call during the winter but that's for maybe a dozen day/nights a winter. I have a good friend who drives a plow during the winter...and makes a nice buck doing it. Those long nights mean a lot of overtime. The rest of the time he did other jobs. His gripe was to keep the gig he had to work during campaigns...patronage runs deep.

In truth, there was little Christie could do once the snow began to fall...but he screwed his own pooch by being seen having fun in the sun when his constituents were up to their armpits in snow. This was a lot of snow that fell in a short period of time...it would have inundated most public works departments.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 11:31 AM
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5. Wasn't faulting anyone
And I wasn't pitying anyone either. I was merely pointing out facts.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 11:42 AM
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7. i hope the folks in jersey jane bryne him in 4 yrs but...
that`s a long time in politics
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 08:29 PM
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9. Byrne's Advantage...
...the primary was a month after the snow...and I remember some streets and alleys were still a mess. Had the election been six months or a year away, maybe Bilandic would have recovered. His problem was being inept and weak. Christie's in inept and arrogant. I hope the arrogant sticks cause that will stay with him to the next election.

Cheers...

:hi:
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:58 AM
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2. Typical republicon. A shirker. Goes AWOL.
Edited on Tue Jan-04-11 10:58 AM by SpiralHawk
Ptoooey on AWOL republicon shirkers & grifters.

Why do republicons have sooo much trouble accepting responsibility?
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 11:06 AM
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4. ReTHUGS are never responsible for anything
Fuck Christie.
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Kber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 11:35 AM
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6. If I may weigh in (no pun intended)
the real perception problem is that Christie was already starting to get the reputation of someone who just isn't around much. Even before the storm *Republicans* I work with were starting to gripe whenever they saw him on TV in Ohio or D.C. They were already starting to complain that he wasn't really minding the store or paying attention to what is supposed to be his real job.

So this just cemented the impression that he's not really interested in New Jersey governance. At best, the governorship is just a stepping stone to other things.

Just saying.
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 11:53 AM
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8. Lawrence O'Donnell was trying to defend Christie last night
(and also going after Corey Booker without naming him), by insisting that the state did an AWESOME job of cleaning up the snow almost completely by Tuesday morning of last week!

Can any NJ DUers confirm this amazing clean-up job?
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