I'm as happy as can be...
From Slate:
Chris Christie Is Too Important to Care About Snow, or Cancer, or His Job
Posted Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:05 PM | By Tom Scocca
If it's possible to fly in and out of snow-crippled New Jersey tomorrow, governor Chris Christie is due to return from his now-notorious vacation at Disney World. It is true that the governor's decision to go ahead and leave the state with a blizzard blowing in—and to stay away, even as the disruption mounted—has been bad image management. And, yes, it has provided material for his political opponents.
But mainly, it was disgraceful governing. Not everyone can be Newark mayor Cory Booker, dashing around his city with a shovel, answering the calls of snowbound citizens on Twitter. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was unimpressive this week—overmatched, sour, and arrogant. Asked today about a case where a newborn baby died while emergency responders were bogged down by unplowed streets, Bloomberg told reporters, “Delivery of an ambulance doesn’t guarantee that medical help can get to do what you need to have done.” (Never is New York's ultra-technocrat more icily rational than when he's explaining why some failure isn't actually his fault.)
Still, however badly and snidely Bloomberg may have been doing his job, at least he was doing it. Chris Christie up and bailed. The chief executive of New Jersey didn't feel like executing his duties.
"Yes, this was a big snow, but we are a northeastern state, and we get plenty of snow, including heavy hits like this," a Christie spokesperson wrote to The Hill, blaming criticism on "partisans."
That's the problem Christie cares about: where he stands on the scoreboard of the eternal campaign. Not getting the state un-paralyzed again. Calling the vacation a political misjudgment misses the point. It wasn't a mistake; it was a genuine reflection of Christie's attitude. The governor doesn't see why he has to be responsible for coordinating police, transportation, and public works in an emergency. And he certainly doesn't see why he should have to suffer alongside the people who elected him. New Jersey's problem isn't his problem.
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M-I-C
See, dis is what I get to do.K-E-Y
Why? Because "fuck you", dat's why.M-O-U-S-E
Thank you, New Jersey, for making Rod Blagojevich
look like a humanitarian.
6 comments:
Looks like Christie & Bloomberg can kiss their presidential hopes goodbye.
But he's already announced that he only wanted to be a one-term Governor, right?
And with Dumbya as his Presidential ideal . . . he's right on target for the big one.
Thanks, Dg.
S
Who could possibly have foreseen such an occurrence? Well, except for the professional left, cause this is one of those 'I told ya so' moments. Stupid pig people.
If, as Saint Ronnie said, "Government is the problem", then it just naturally follows that if you don't govern there's no problem.
Q.E.D., P.D.Q. and R.F.D.
Christie thinks and acts exactly as the plutocrat he is.
Too bad he's so rotund that pasting his face onto Pluto won't really work....
RP
(ht to digby's post)
What this story doesn't make clear is whether or not Christie had the good grace and common sense to forgo the spinning tea cups in favor of some serious "telegoverning". I won't hold my breath that he did, though.
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