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Why Conservative Republicans Aren’t Defending Christie

January 10, 2014 Buck Banks

You’re going to see conservatives returning the favor he gave them over the last year. There’s no love lost between Chris Christie and conservatives.

— GOP strategist Rick Wilson, quoted by National Journal, adding that Christie “goes out of his way to be a dick to other Republicans.”

— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), at a news conference over the bridge scandal.

Fort Lee Mayor Shows He’s a Crass Act

January 9, 2014 Buck Banks

David Wildstein deserves an ass-kicking. Sorry. There, I said it.

— Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich (D), quoted by the Newark Star Ledger, on the Port Authority official responsible creating traffic by closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge.

Stewart: Christie Gives N.J. Corruption a Bad Name

January 9, 2014 Buck Banks

As a guy who grew up in New Jersey, I’m disappointed, ashamed of the state I grew up in. Political payback through traffic congestion? To see New Jersey sink to such a piss-poor, third-rate quality of corruption …. This is New Jersey! A state renowned for its piss-rich, first-rate corruption.

— Jon Stewart, not surprisingly, leading off the Daily Show last night with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).

Seems Chris Christie got too big for his gubernatorial britches,
When he choked off Fort Lee traffic from one of New York’s bridges.
The mayor did not endorse,
So the traffic got worse and worse,
Because New Jersey politicians are sons of bitches.

Christie Burned By George Washington Bridge Flap

January 8, 2014 Buck Banks

To this point, Chris Christie has treated the George Washington Bridge closure story as a joke, and national reporters have regarded it as a minor irritation. The public release of e-mails among his staff changes all that. The e-mails prove that Christie’s loyalists closed the bridge deliberately as political retribution, not as a ‘traffic study’ as claimed. They display an almost comical venality bordering on outright sociopathy. And they will probably destroy Christie’s chances in 2016.

Tag: Republican scandals

Why Conservative Republicans Aren’t Defending Christie

You’re going to see conservatives returning the favor he gave them over the last year. There’s no love lost between Chris Christie and conservatives.

— GOP strategist Rick Wilson, quoted by National Journal, adding that Christie “goes out of his way to be a dick to other Republicans.”

Who Believes Chris Christie?

I was blindsided yesterday morning.

— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), at a news conference over the bridge scandal.

Fort Lee Mayor Shows He’s a Crass Act

David Wildstein deserves an ass-kicking. Sorry. There, I said it.

— Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich (D), quoted by the Newark Star Ledger, on the Port Authority official responsible creating traffic by closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge.

Stewart: Christie Gives N.J. Corruption a Bad Name

As a guy who grew up in New Jersey, I’m disappointed, ashamed of the state I grew up in. Political payback through traffic congestion? To see New Jersey sink to such a piss-poor, third-rate quality of corruption …. This is New Jersey! A state renowned for its piss-rich, first-rate corruption.

— Jon Stewart, not surprisingly, leading off the Daily Show last night with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).

Bridge Too Far

Christie Burned By George Washington Bridge Flap

— Jonathan Chait, writing in New York Magazine.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%