Discussion:

I just want to know how David lost 91 lbs… guess he didn’t have a lap band.

Yeah. Republicans are always howling about Obama’s “lawlessness,” but the casual disregard for the law, for the normal functioning of government, etc. etc. is, as you say, “breathtaking.” This is the sort of thing Americans like to condemn in other parts of the world–particularly Asia & Africa–but lawlessness & corruption are endemic especially to state & local governments across the US. Christie is just a particularly egregious example of a general pattern.

I see no humor in this. Crooked politicians should be stopped and pay the consequences when they screw over their constituents. Or, should we just chalk it up to “they all do it”?

It is, as usual, projection. Everyone is prone to it, but authoritarians most especially. In the years before WWI, Kaiser Wilhelm was upset about the pieces run bout him in the British papers and demanded to his cousin the king that they be stopped - assuming they were planted by the British government, since he was planting similar stories in German papers to stir up anti-British sentiment.

Christie’s three headed snake. Which one will bite him?

Whoa, don’t blame TPM for covering this, as it is the indictment of the moment, and needs to be followed. There is more to come, and it takes time to try and get it right. These three have a lot to offer, and hopefully, the dominoes will keep falling. I still think the Bully will get it in the end.

She can only plead the 5th to protect herself. She can’t continue to claim “someone told me to do it” without naming that person.

Their expected defenses: Wildstein is a liar and the trio couldn’t have been acting alone, are going to be tough to make in the same case. There are more shoes to drop.

We need a guy like Christie to be our President. Imagine how easily he would have stopped Putin from taking back the Republics and ISIS from destroying Christianity. Unlike the current wuss in the Casa Blanca.

“…late …not by minutes but by hours…”

Because Chris Christie wanted to show himself off as a wanna-piece-a-me badass to a political opponent.

Please, Chris. Lecture us about how you truly care about people, about how your moral bearings are so much better than those of “the common people”.

You know the common people, Chris? They’re the ones who take sh*t for being late to work.

All it took to create Christie’s chaos were a few plastic cones placed in the lanes. That is now valuable intelligence to terrorists. Just like 9/11 when all it took to take down the WTC towers were a few box cutters. Flight 93’s hijacking was thwarted when passengers mobbed the terrorists. A few pissed off drivers could have simply crushed Christie’s dunce cap cones and restored normal traffic flow. See how easily law abiding citizens can be herded around. See how easily those same people could overcome government representatives who choose to play tyrant with the power given to them by the people.

But Wildstein’s response to children being late was along the lines of “they’re the children of Buono’s people”, the Democratic candidate for governor at that time. That’s how callous these people were.

Slightly off topic but appropriate. The name Christopher is from the Greek meaning “carrying Jesus Christ.” His parents were clearly delusional that this blivet would be doing good works in his life.

The guy who’s not laughing and the one that matters is Paul Fishman the U.S. Attorney for NJ who made the announcement at the press conference yesterday. He’s as serious as a heart attack. CC can brush it off, but heads will roll and he will emerge with his career in tatters. But before that happens we’ll play with him like a cat does a mouse.

Chris Christie, its not the cover up that will get him, its the back up.

The bridge ordeal is literally ridiculous and proves that Christie shouldn’t ever be near power again. He is dirty in a hundred ways but it will only take one to get him.

Always remember, Al Capone went down for tax evasion and the crime bosses always fear their own people the most.

So much inspiration for parody, so little time.

To me, it has always seemed somewhat unbelievable that Bridgegate, as it is now called, could have been an operation designed to punish Sokolich for not endorsing Christie.

If you go through Christie’s history, you will time and again find that when someone refuses to bend to his will, often in the matter of endorsements, his instinct is to “punish” that person by harming that person’s constituents–notwithstanding that the people being punished are also Christie’s constituents.

And that’s what’s disqualifying. That’s why this blustering, bullying asshole can never, ever, ever be allowed within a thousand heartbeats of the presidency. Because that’s how his head works. You cross me? Well I’ll fuck over regular citizens who I’m supposed to be serving who are in your jurisdiction." In what universe, does a democracy allow a man whose mind works like that to lead? In particular, a federal democracy with red and blue states and red and blue Congressional districts.

She has no legal obligation to prove her innocence. The prosecution is required to prove her guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

If the case against Kelly allows her, thru her legal defense team, to color one or more key elements of the state’s case against her as depending critically on Wildstein’s credibility, that is, with no specific corroboration that exists independent from Wildstein, she’s not only under no legal obligation to testify in her own defense, her attorney can urge any or all rationally conceivable (not rational - rationally conceivable; there’s a difference) alternatives on the jury.

I’m not saying you’re wrong here; you may well know a lot more on the publicly-known details of this case than I do. I AM saying that if what you’re claiming derives from the summary of the facts, evidence and allegations contained in this particular TPM story, I don’t see the problem that you raise. That is, I cannot see in this TPM narrative the existence of the impediment that you in your comment imply exists.

Assuming Christie’s not indicted (or named as an unindicted fellow conspirator), it’s not logical impediments or bad optics from the various nefarious doings of his aides and appointees that I’d foresee doing in Christie’s hopes for the RNC nomination. His problem is, in broad terms, that he can’t possibly expect the breadth and depth of support from financial backers and primary supporters prepared to vote for him or the reasonable expectation of attracting centrist voters (WTF they are) sufficient to gain the RNC nomination RELATIVE TO even just the candidates already announced.