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Time for some TRAFFIC!

So are the conservatives pundits saying that they told us not to trust this RINO who worked with Obama yet?
 
From America Blog.
Christie changes story on bridge closures, may have lied during 2 hour press conference

http://americablog.com/2014/01/new-statement-christie-changes-story-bridge-closures.html

Quote from news conference.
Christie: “A: factually it did not get to me, um the first I ever heard about the issue was when it was reported in the press, which I think was in the aftermath of Mr. – the leaking of Mr. Foye’s email. I think that was the first I heard of it, but it was certainly after the whole thing was over.”
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BenBurch said:
Doesn't really matter if he planned it, knew about it, or just tried to do damage control after.

His political career is over.
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That remains to be seen, but I'll admit that at this point it doesn't look particularly good for him.
 
AlexW said:
NYT is reporting on a letter from Wildstein saying Christie new about the bridge closure as it was takiing place; and that he has proof of that. Time will tell.
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Holy crapballs :eek:

I amend my earlier statement... Christie could very well be toast. Burnt to a crisp, in fact.

ETA: Here's the NYTimes link
 
tyr_13 said:
So are the conservatives pundits saying that they told us not to trust this RINO who worked with Obama yet?
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Fox News is covering this latest development

I'm thinking that, right now, pretty much everyone in the GOP-sphere who was avidly defending Christie a few weeks ago is quietly holding their breath. That's probably because they are starting to seriously wonder if they publicly defended someone whom they shouldn't have.

Of course, this creates a huge problem for the GOP, namely that of tearing open the rift in the party between the conservative/Tea Party faction and the moderate/pragmatist faction. Christie was undoubtedly the man the latter faction was pinning its hopes upon in being the eventual "GOP moderate" in a field of lunatic Tea Party hopefuls in the 2016 Republican primaries.

Now, it looks as if Christie's chances at the presidential level are finished, leaving the GOP with... who exactly?... to bear their moderate standard?
 
Monketey Ghost said:
Yah, we're at the "this guy here says" stage.
I'm fascinated and quite curious to see how this plays out.
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Well there's the "we can make this stick in court" standard, and then there's the "this guy can still be president" standard. I think the first one is iffy if they don't produce hard evidence, but at this point I don't see how he shakes off the appearance that he was in this up to his eyeballs and fails the second standard. His main selling point was that he is a no nonsense kind of guy who shrugs off politics and follows what's right. That's why so many Democrats supported him as the "sane Republican in the room". But now he's lost all of that. And his support among the rabid right has always been tepid because he was nice to Obama once. So does a guy like that get elected president? I don't see it.
 
Christie Strikes Back at Wildstein in E-Mail to Supporters

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie went on the offensive today against a former ally whose lawyer accused him of lying about when he learned of September lane closures at the George Washington Bridge, sending a sharply worded e-mail to friends and supporters.

“Bottom line -- David Wildstein will do and say anything to save David Wildstein,” Christie said in the e-mail, which was obtained by Bloomberg News.
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At the very least money people should be wary of sending more money to a lost cause.
 
Now it's getting reaaal meaty. And nasty.

Update: Christie going on offensive over accusation......
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going on the offensive after a former loyalist said he has evidence the Republican governor knew more than he has admitted about an apparently politically motivated traffic jam ordered by one of his staffers last year.

The governor's political team sent an email Saturday to donors, along with columnists and pundits who might be in a position to defend Christie, bashing the man Christie put in a top post at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the accusations the man's lawyer made in a letter Friday.

The email says the former Port Authority official, David Wildstein, "will do and say anything to save David Wildstein."

Christie's team noted that Wildstein did not present any proof to back up the claims his lawyer, Alan Zegas, made in the letter. The email also denies that Christie knew about the traffic jam or its political motive until after it was over and bashes Wildstein on a variety of fronts, characterizing him as a litigious teenager, a controversial mayor of Livingston, where Christie and Wildstein attended high school together, and for his past career as an anonymous political blogger.....snip~


Yahoo!

Here is the email Christie released:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/Christie-email.pdf

When he throws a guy he created a special position for and hired to be his "eyes and ears" under the bus, he backs up and runs him over again. And does wheelies.

I'm wondering if Christie was drunk when he approved that email.
 
It's a fascinating and truly bizarre offensive.

He goes on to smear upside and back Wildstein, going back to (really Governor?) high school social studies class (yes, really) - and basically says Everyone knows what a scumbucket and deceptive man David is -- been that way for a long time

--that's why I hired him and placed him in a top position at the Port Authority.

And to prove my claim that Wildstein is lying about me and is a nogoodfornothing skunk, please refer to the article I have herein linked which describes David as "my eyes and ears inside the Port Authority."
 
This is from the NY Times link above:
During his news conference, Mr. Christie specifically said he had no knowledge that traffic lanes leading to the bridge had been closed until after they were reopened. “I had no knowledge of this — of the planning, the execution or anything about it — and that I first found out about it after it was over,” he said. “And even then, what I was told was that it was a traffic study.”
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Whether or not Christie ordered the closures or knew about them in advance, is it really plausible that he didn't hear about them on they day they started? Media reports about massive traffic jams, ambulances that couldn't get to emergencies, school kids trapped on buses, multiple urgent phone calls to his office from the mayor of Fort Lee (according to to the mayor), and he never knew nuttin'? Christie, who seems to be known as a micromanager, never read the papers or watched TV reports? Hard to believe. I think Christie has locked himself into a story that will ultimately be disproven, and he'll pay a high price. It would have made much more sense for him to say something like "Yeah, I learned about the problem the morning it happened, and I looked into it. Everybody told me it was a traffic study, and I believed them." But that's not what he said, and it's starting to catch up with him.
 
Egggcellent story here by a NJ insider journalist who was in tight with CC and many of the top players (and worked for Wildstein.)

Really, really worth the read.

WELL, THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY


Brian Murphy – February 2, 2014, 8:28 AM EST4160

Over Chinese food at the fabulous Lao Sze Chuan in Milford, Ct. I had the pleasure of reading Chris Christie’s 700-word-long attack on David Wildstein and the New York Times. This came moments after I opened a fortune cookie that advised me to “Enjoy yourself while you can.” (!)

I am trying to summon the requisite mood to seriously ponder the implications of the email that Governor Christie apparently sent to supporters/donors/ Politico/Beltway Republicans (as if there’s any… never mind). But I can’t. I just can’t.

It is hard for me to believe that the governor of an American state could author such a piece of risible juvenilia, except it is even harder for me to believe a paid communications professional could have been behind this. The “argument” Christie (or possibly one very very close longtime advisor) is making here is that David Wildstein is a bad guy.

Why?


Continue reading here: Well, That Escalated Quickly
 
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