Chris Christie Plays in Traffic, Gets Run Over

[Purveyor]

By Francis Wilkinson - Jan 8, 2014
In recent decades, the study of presidential character has been a bit of a cottage industry. We owe this in part to the endlessly fascinating grudges, insecurities and neuroses of Richard Nixon -- and to their devastating impact on his presidency and the nation.

Today we learned that we are unlikely ever to find out how New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's character would play out in the White House.

A report in the Bergen Record portrays Christie's top aides actively engaging in an act of sabotage against a political rival that combined pettiness and vindictiveness in doses usually relegated to the Facebook pages of Mean Girls. “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly wrote to another Christie ally. Three access lanes to the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan were subsequently shut down without explanation or warning.

The attack appears to have been designed to punish Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, who refused to endorse Christie's reelection last fall. Lashing out at Sokolich won't kill Christie's essentially naked presidential ambitions. But the collateral damage very well might.

The Record report -- if you haven't read it, you most certainly should -- is based on texts and e-mails among Christie's inner circle. It reveals Christie aides displaying an astonishing contempt for the common woman and man of New Jersey -- otherwise known as "commuters."

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-08/chris-christie-plays-in-traffic-gets-run-over.html

[BobUp]

1. Big bus we hope?

Just to think he might have been honing his gut for a 2016 run.

[Whisp]

2. This is so delicious I'm gaining weight just reading about the possible consequences

for that ignorant bully and his staff.

A gift from Gawd.