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fatty = TOAST
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Nothing like repeating, "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me" to make you look innocent.
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When I've said Republicans take revenge on the people who don't support them, like the poor or ethnic groups or women, I'd get criticized. But to me, this is typical behavior and Christie claiming he knew nothing is unbelievable. If a major bridge is snarled for nothing at all and the governor hasn't inquired about it, he either knows why or he's incompetent.
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He should have taken lessons from Mike "Bike" McGinn. He had enough sense to slowly squeeze communities that did not support him, through his advocacy of traffic snarling schemes. Unfortunately for him, West Seattle caught on, and while supporting Sawant, bounced McGinn out of office.
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One Clown Car Occupant knocked the hell out.

Many more to go.
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Republicans have been successfully using the excuse of incompetence for so long I don't see why now will be any different. Anyone remember George Bush? I think we've so internalized the expectation that republicans will lie, cheat, abuse power and fail that it is no longer a surprise or cause for outrage when the inevitable scandal occurs or the policy completely fails at meeting its stated objectives. Republicans and right wingers like Chris Christie keep winning elections because, well, I don't know why. Maybe because being an asshole, incompetent and/or corrupt fall under the IOKIYAAR category. And maybe because the MSM consistently fails to accurately communicate the republican/right wing agenda. Think about it, up until this recent scandal, most national pundits were absolutely fawning in their coverage of Christie, describing him as a 'moderate' or a straight shooter, blah blah blah. Very cursory research on the web reveal lots of examples of him being a major right wing asshole, but you'd never know it listening to the talking heads on tv.
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Pile on, pile on. Remember how American's deemed a grade-B movie actor, a wimp, a womanizer/adulterer, a daddy's boy, and a community organizer, not presidential material? Yet they all became president.
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@7 You prattle on about nonsense.
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@ 7, they also had resumes free of major scandal. Something Christie can no longer claim.
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Does anybody else think that the 'scandal' of him (via his 'associates') screwing a Democratic city and it's mayor has solidified his support in the Republican party?
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@10: Karl Rove probably just sent him an early Valentine's Day card.
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Glenn Beck, fucking asshole that he is, nevertheless brilliantly dubbed the scandal as "Fat and Furious."
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@8/9 - As much as if pains me to agree with GayDudeForRaindrop, he is correct. History has shown us again and again that the American populous' memory is short and sweet. Other than a hard core group (the antipode of Benghazi-truthers), most will have forgotten - or ceased to care - about this HUGE scandal in 2.7 yrs.
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Was there any sex or money involved? No?
Then, as a scandal, this isn't going very far.

Petty, intrastate political squabbles don't matter on the national stage.
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@ 14, if someone died, there won't be any forgetting. Not at all. However, I'm open to your examples of comparable scandals that failed to derail presidential candidates in the past.
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I would vote democrat over that fat, least coast, jersey shore piece of shit.

I hope he chokes to death on a ham samwich.
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@16: Apparently, the mother of the person that died said that it wasn't a result of the bridge traffic - but let's still say that it was. A much more serious example of what you requested is the late Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts once in a drunken stupor leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die in that puddle of water in Chappaquiddick. Such horror did not prevent him from coming near to stealing the re-nomination of a sitting president - Jimmy Carter in 1980.
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@15

Blocking roads is a mortal political sin. How many mayors have been driven from office for not plowing the snow fast enough? Traffic radicalizes the apolitical masses like nothing else.
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@16 - Iran Contra. (your play)
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@ 18, Ted Kennedy would have lost to Reagan, and Chappaquidick (sp?) would certainly have played a part.

@ 20, something that happened in Reagan's second term derailed his presidential career? Or did you mean Ollie North?
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It's funny, because in the old days this shit happened all the time. You think Daley in Chicago never fucked over the constituents of a recalcitrant alderman with a deliberately timed repaving project? Or Curley in Boston? Or any of the Tammany guys? Now, it's seen as a big deal. Times have changed.
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Let's go easy on Christie. We need him to run against Hillary in 2016. Let's not get rid of him just yet, he will lose to Hillary in a heartbeat, but we need him to be the republican front runner to do so. I think political posturing has already started and the republican machine is very busy.
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Matt, GWHB was very deeply involved - instrumental even - in the whole traitorous affair. His campaign for President was not derailed by it (in the slightest), and 100 years from now Iran Contra will be looked upon as a MUCH worse scandal than Christie's GWB fiasco. I think we both know that. My original point was that our collective American memory is short-lived, and we both know that, too. At least WE remember...
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Derp, make that GHWB.
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@ 24, was that ever revealed at the time? I sure don't remember anyone saying "It's all on George!" in the media. Just reviewing the general consensus online, such as wikipedia, Bush is mostly mentioned for pardoning people accused or convicted of it. William Casey, who conveniently kicked the bucket during that time, ended up taking a posthumous fall.

Sorry. Even if Bush was up to his eyeballs in Iran Contra, the reason it didn't stop him from being president was because it was never reported that he was a major player. He was "out of the loop," and the people bought it. No one is going to conclude that Christie was out of this loop.
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@22: Chicago is "The City That Works". We've got corruption, sure, but it's traditionally not the sort of thing that gets in the way of progress. People would give jobs to their cousin Vinnie, but Vinnie would at least know how to do his job. Sort of a Havelock Vetinari approach.
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How old are you @26? Were you paying attention during the '88 campaign or examining it from hindsight? Bush's part in Iran Contra was common knowledge and widely discussed throughout the campaign. Your claim that "it was never reported that he was a major player" is simply rewriting history. It's not true.
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@27 That is the nicest way of saying "chicago politicians are so corrupt that they don't even bother pretending they're not fucking people over in the fastest and most direct way possible" I've ever heard

God, what it must be like in your head

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@29: No no, they still go through the whole ACT of being clean, usually.
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@ 28, it was true, and as a partisan liberal voting in my first election, I recall very clearly that it wasn't a big deal for Bush. You don't have to take my word; look up "Iran Contra" on wikipedia and note how little it has to say about Bush. Not much came out at the time, and efforts by Dukakis and the Dems to make it stick didn't work.

Try as you might to explain it, it simply wasn't a big scandal for Bush. He was never forced to go into damage control mode to the extent Christie already has. Revisionism? I think you're the one guilty of that.

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