Some thoughts on "Bridgegate"

Christie: Vindictive ass or incompetent buffoon (Click on this heading to read more)

Rss@dailykos.com (kos)
Thursday, January 09, 2014, 3:53 pm

"I am not a bully", said THIS guy.
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Don't shoot me, but I'm willing to entertain the possibility that Christie had nothing to do with the original lane closings. Not saying he didn't know, because if he did and investigators make the connection, it's over for him. Nothing controversial about that. But let's say he didn't know and game this out from that assumption ...
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So he doesn't know about the lane closings when it first happens. Yet there is growing media noise about it and the legislature starts digging. He asks his aides, and they say "just politics, boss. We did nothing." He believes them. But ... four months later of increasing scrutiny, and he-a former prosecutor!-still doesn't get curious enough to start his own internal probe? He doesn't ask, "Was there REALLY a study, and if so, can you show it to me?" I find that hard to believe. Not knowing about the original closures? Plausible (whether likely or unlikely). Still not knowing what happened four months later, well, that stretches credulity to the breaking point.