Posted on 01/16/2014 2:46:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There haven't been so many reporters chasing a story in Trenton, N.J., since Washington crossed the Delaware. But compared with the methods the Democratic Party is using now to take down its opponents, Chris Christie looks like Little Bo Peep.
Gov. Christie's hyper-political aides ordered traffic jams in neighborhoods near the perpetually backed-up George Washington Bridge to annoy the mayor of Fort Lee. And they may have canceled meetings with the mayor of Jersey City because he wouldn't endorse Mr. Christie. Oh my.
The Christie bonfire has burned for a week. In that same week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI found nothing in the IRS's targeting of conservative political groups that warrants criminal charges.
This conclusion struck lawyers Jay Sekulow and Cleta Mitchell as fairly amazing. Both represent conservative groups targeted by the IRS, and they say the FBI only recently got in touch with a few of their clients.
Thus, two of the most powerful public institutions in the U.S.—the FBI and the IRS—have concluded no harm, no foul, and the memory hole swallows the Obama administration's successful kneecapping of the GOP's most active members just as they prepared to participate in the 2012 presidential campaign. Many—ruined or terrified by the IRS probes—shut down. Mr. Obama won....
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I smell a RAT. While I detest Christie, the way this take down is going, I suspect that the RATs bought members of Christies staff, paying them to do these things. If a Governor wished to inflict pain on a political opponent, there are so many other, legitimate and non rebutable ways to apply hurt.
"Threatening companies that participate in politics with reputational destruction is the American left's version of Maoist shaming sessions. Modern Red Guards don't hang signs around your neck. Their weapon of choice is modern media. In this league, a political traffic jam is the work of amateurs." WSJ
I smell a rat too. Why would Christie bother with a DEMOCRAT mayor who refuesed to endorse him? Wouldn’t it have been what all of us recognize as standard procedure for that mayor to endose his own party’s candidate?
Why would Christie’s staff have made such a bonehead move?
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Chris Christie Is an Amateur: Left’s political methods make Gov. Christie look like Little Bo Peep, Lion Den Dan wrote:
I smell a RAT. While I detest Christie, the way this take down is going, I suspect that the RATs bought members of Christies staff, paying them to do these things. If a Governor wished to inflict pain on a political opponent, there are so many other, legitimate and non rebutable ways to apply hurt.
The G.W. Bridge takes in a reported $1 million a day in tolls. Slowing that traffic down to a crawl also slows down any “fresh” hands in the till that might be skimming off the top bridge Fort Lee city pols might be getting the top.
“....Gov. Christie look like Little Bo Peep”
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Tou mean, Big, Huge, Obese Bo Peep.
HEY 2DV IT JOISEY....AKA ‘BAGG-A-SNAKES-LAND’ YEP...AND YEP...AGAIN...
These fights are meaningless to us as citizens. This is just positioning for power by people in politics.
None of whom have the slightest interest in the citizens.
Christie can sink or swim, doesn’t matter, except perhaps to people in NJ.
The “JustUs” department is just that!
You are way beyond me here. I am but a babe in the woods and never thought about something like this.
Christie is a side show that we all should ignore.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Chris Christie Is an Amateur: Left’s political methods make Gov. Christie look like Little Bo Peep, Lion Den Dan wrote:
The G.W. Bridge takes in a reported $1 million a day in tolls. Slowing that traffic down to a crawl also slows down any “fresh” hands in the till that might be skimming off the top bridge Fort Lee city pols might be getting the top.
You are way beyond me here. I am but a babe in the woods and never thought about something like this.
The MSM didn’t mention, in fact avoided mentioning the revenue Fort Lee takes in, and lot of it is in cash. If they ever find any sticky fingers here you’ll never see it in print because that will make Christie look like a hero (he’s not to me btw). Watch how fast this disappears.
Think Chicago, "if they bring a knife, we'll bring a gun!"
Actually, this is pretty tame compared to the bared knuckle skirmishes in 'da old days.
Trying to block the image of Christie in a Bo-Peep outfit from my brain...
This has NEVER made sense to me.
>> Left’s political methods make Gov. Christie look like Little Bo Peep
Nonsense, kinda’ — it’s the entrenched Left within the MSM. Let’s stop kidding ourselves.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Christie is still an idiot.
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