...Chris Christie is still in big trouble

[ProSense]

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Chris Christie is still in big trouble

New #bridgegate documents: "There can be no public discourse," & traffic study invented as part of elaborate coverup http://t.co/IfyZdPW7f8
— @JillDLawrence

The new docs show Foye's damning 9/13 memo was forwarded to Regina Egea -- Christie's incoming chief of staff -- hours later.
— @SteveKornacki

So are we to believe that Christie's Authorities Director & soon-to-be chief of staff never in 4 months told him about this??
— @SteveKornacki

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/11/1268305/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-Chris-Christie-is-still-in-big-trouble

Josh Marshall: In Plain Sight?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024314174

[randome]

1. I'm not one to throw optimism around like it's confetti.

But I think this fiasco has legs and I think Christie will soon be in hot water.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Berlum]

2. "...this fiasco has legs..."

[randome]

3. The new GOP mascot!

A refugee from a Vincent Price movie!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[trusty elf]

11. ..........

[IMG][/IMG]

[randome]

12. Oh, that's good!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Rules are made to be broken. Including this one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Berlum]

20. DUzy - the official Republicon mascot: The Many-legged Fiasco

[Spirochete]

21. LOL

[Enrique]

4. you mean his press conference didn't end the scandal?

[randome]

6. The press conference that can be summed up thusly?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Rules are made to be broken. Including this one.[/center][/font][hr]

[LiberalElite]

16. That's the thing-

Christie claims he's not mad? Since when is Chris Christie not mad? He's presented with a damn good reason to be mad and he isn't? This doesn't pass the sincerity test, Gov.

[spanone]

5. K&r...

[warrior1]

7. I would really love to see a timeline created to show

the faces with the emails over time and include what they may have said in the press and what they were doing those particular days.

[Logical]

8. I hope you are right. But this guy seems to be loved by too many. I don't get it. n-t

[Fla Dem]

9. It's because he's like Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford, but sober.

Both bigger than life, in your face personalities. They're novelties for a while, then their act gets old.

[Logical]

10. Christie seems just plain mean to me. The ultimate definition of bully. I am shocked he is popular.

[freshwest]

14. People gravitate toward 'strong men' as they descend into fascism. The process of privatization has

strong elements in which underlings have to submit enthusiastically to their boss no matter how he acts. Knowing he is unprincipled leads them to curry favor with him. It's a closed circle. To stand back and be able to use critical reasoning or more noble thoughts of publis service requires one to feel free.

The reason they get away with it that their followers are overpaid for their level of competence. Their survival depends on their loyalty, just like with any warlord or king. Americans have been taught a fantasy life by media that normalizes the kind of soceities that are feudalistic.

The voters that stick with him are mainly those who get advantage being part of the groups favored by the Christie regime with aboslute power, which he has bragged about having as the top executive in NJ's form of government. He is exploiting that to the full bought his friends.

Amd I am not awake enough to make a better answer.

[freshwest]

15. His bullying is something they would like to do in IRL but can't, so they enjoy him doing it. n/t

[B Calm]

13. Bullies create a lot of enemies. Now that he looks weak

I see a lot of those enemies speaking up about much more than GWB Gate!

[Eddie Haskell]

17. An interesting couple of weeks, politically.

First Gates smears Biden, then Christie is destroyed by an insider.

The race is on.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Christie is a potential Blagojevich

Subverting the public interest for self-serving political goals

IMO

[The Wizard]

19. Raging Bully (NT)