BRIDGE-GATE, THE CHRIS CHRISTIE SALVO!

BRIDGE-GATE, THE CHRIS CHRISTIE SALVO!

(Associated Press, Angela Delli Santi, Steve Peoples)

(Star Ledger, Lisa Rose, Huffington Post, Amanda Terkel, New York Times)

(Fox News, Mike Kelly, Kate Zernike, Al Jazeera, David Doser, Tom Brown, John Nugent)

(William K. Rashbaum, John Hudson, Peter Lattman, Anthony & Rachel Barkow, Frazer Chronicle)

 

New Jersey Governor Christopher James Christie (Mr. Clean, the Doctor of Corpulent) seems to have finally made his first mistake in political office. You can’t count Christie’s initial decision to run for political office a mistake, he was young than and everybody is allowed at least one do-over. But the Doctor of Corpulent hasn’t seemed to learn his lesson. He’s held numerous appointed and elected positions, has been a lobbyist, was a partner in a law office, and was a practicing attorney for several years…..off and on.

 

Born in September of 1962, the 51 year old Republican Governor of the Garden State has been pretty much a Mr. Clean throughout his political as well as private life. Oh I’m sure there are a few skeletons in his closet…..but hey, don’t we all have some bags of bones lurking around, maybe behind that Sear-Sucker suit?

 

For the life of me, I cannot understand why anybody in his/her right mind would even consider taking the plunge into the murky waters of politics here in the United States. People must be masochists or something; why else would anybody open themselves up to the antics that have become the world of government here in the United States.

 

Christie has scheduled a news conference in the afternoon today, and he’ll shed some new light on the closure of the George Washington Bridge back in September. What he can say is completely over my head, seems to me as if the damage has already been done. If he was involved, he’s screwed, and if he wasn’t, he’s screwed.

 

The electorate still has this opinion that elected officials, at any level needs to be better then…..what else, that electorate whose responsibility it is, is to put some shining white knight into office, which is a totally bizarre way of thinking to me.

 

Christopher J. Christie is, I think, a decent man, with some bright ideas, and then some that aren’t so bright, but that’s the way it is with every political candidate, it’s the nature of the beast. Do I personally think that Governor Christie was directly responsible for the G.W. Bridge closure, or involved in any way…..hell no, and no.

 

I think that it’s possible that the Doctor of Corpulent might have had inkling that somebody in his administration might have known, and even ordered the closure, but Christie didn’t have any firsthand knowledge, and wasn’t in on any involved in the decision making discussions and process to move forward.

 

WHEN YOU OPEN THAT DOOR, ANYTHING GOES

Fabricating stuff on an opponent, unfavorable, steamy, half truths and innuendos, in a political campaign, is nothing new and in fact is business as usual. In fact some people make a living out of being an inventor of stuff, a damned good living, don’t believe me, write Carl Rove at PAY ME FIRST, P.O. Box 1234 Anytown, Texas, or call at 1 800 LEVERAGE.

 

Anybody who decides on a career in politics is…..as I’ve said “out of their fricken head,” the amount of time, energy, and the backlash that comes along with that decision would, for me be an easy decision to make, two words come to mind…..HELL NO.

 

It appears feasible that Christie’s Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly wrote in an August email to David Wildstein, a top Christie appointee on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, that it was time for some traffic snarls on the George Washington Bridge in retaliation for no endorsement from the Republican Mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

 

For whatever reason, Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich decline to endorse Governor Christie during his campaign for reelection. Fort Lee is a suburb of Philadelphia and New York City, of course every city, village in the area is a suburb of New York. It just doesn’t seem to be that big of a problem, hell, Fort Lee is a town of 35,732 in an area of some 40 million people. Fort Lee is credited as the birthplace of the film industry, sorry Hollywood.

 

The political game (it’s what they call it), is usually brutal, and even though the Doctor of Corpulent seems to stand by his “white as the driven snow reputation,” this scandal will sully the governor white sheet  approach to politics.

 

Here’s what’ll happen to Christie, people are going to watch and listen to see what the governor’s reaction will be, how he deals with the pressure of allegations that are leveled, and will be leveled at him. Personally I think the Doctor of Corpulent might be a good alternative to what we now have in the White House.

 

President Obama does not deal with adversity very well when allegations are leveled at him for almost anything. I voted for him twice, and now know that at least the second vote was a huge mistake, but I couldn’t vote for grandpa McCain and that witch-bitch Palin.

 

There are parts of the Republican platform that I agree with, and other parts not so much, it’s the same with the Democrats and their beliefs. Times ah-wasten, I really hope that the round mound of McDonalds burgers and fries can weather the storm, and get back on track.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!