Saturday, January 11, 2014

Gov. Christie catches it from all sides

Bridgegate Cartoon
 Bad timing for the Christie scandal?  "Governor Christie has plenty of enemies in his own party. Conservatives resent his embrace of President Obama following Super storm Sandy, the Romney campaign still remembers his lukewarm (at best) role, and many are uneasy that he may be a RINO. Although instinctively rallying around one of our own under attack by our mutual enemies, many conservatives are quietly relieved that the prospect of another non-conservative nominee is diminished.

"Still, Christie is probably the potential GOP standard-bearer most-feared by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat-media establishment." ...
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"If no evidence implicates Christie with direct knowledge of the bridge revenge closure plan, his performance yesterday will serve him well, and this scandal will be forgotten by 2016. His forthright apologies and swift firings contrast vividly with the failure of Obama to act in the face if his various scandals, and of Hillary's failure to confront the Benghazi scandal with meaningful apologies and action. What doesn't kill his political career only makes him stronger."

Drawing from the left, Pat Oliphant takes a harsher view of Christie:
 
Andy McCarthy is not so optimistic about Christie: New Scandal, Same Old Christie    ... "In public, the notorious Christie wrath is usually reserved for tea-party conservatives, for those who don’t share his soft spot for Islamic supremacists, and for the stray insolent teachers’-union rep — because, well, who doesn’t enjoy watching that? Playing nicely with Democrats is a big part of the governor’s shtick."
Political Cartoons by Steve Breen

There's Already 17 Times More Coverage on Christie Scandal Than in Last Six Months of IRS    " ... ABC, CBS and NBC have responded with 34 minutes and 28 seconds of coverage. Since July 1, these same networks managed a scant two minutes and eight seconds for the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups."

How about this? Hillary Advisor Created Traffic Jam To Help Gore  
... "Gore was “irate” at the “massive traffic jam” but then “Gore got the point” after Whouley explained that “they’re mostly Bradley voters.”
"And now we can all laugh at this, because it’s just smart politics when it involves Democrats."  Emphasis in the original.

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