Really?
He just fired several high ranking members of his administration.
That's after joking about the bridge closing.
Seriously..
Well, thankfully things like professional investigators, evidence and courts can see that what appears on the surface may not be what is going on.
For instance, another way of interpreting what you just said is that maybe Christie fired several high-ranking members of his administration for what he saw as impropriaties or even foul play. And his joking is a way of "moving on" from the scandal. Like "let's not make such a big deal about it".
On the one hand it is a big deal for someone to have maliciously closed lanes during rush hour. Or stuff like that happens all the time without a spotlight on it.
On the other hand too, it's a bit weird that the AG in Virginia just announced s/he wouldn't be enforcing the ban on gay marriage there....just after the Gov of Virginia was forced to step down...just after Maddow went on another rampage screaming afoul of him accepting gifts from people who later turned out to have gotten advantages from him, allegedly.
The point is that the man is unconvicted still of crimes that every politician since the dawn of human history has committed. Are we really supposed to be that up in arms about those types of things? Or is this a witch hunt with a convenient ending [see the sudden switch in the AG of Virginia on gay marriage]... Do we convict and destroy careers before a trial has even happened, by whipping up public outrage from a pulpit on mainstream media over really mediocre crimes? This type of thing happens at Fox News too.
My point is in all this, we have a country to run. If we are mired in these trivial-scandals, firing people right and left, all that will be brave enough to run for office will be even more and more villainous creeps who aren't as scared of the Maddow-treatment as their predecessors were. And then we are heading towards very dark times indeed. This is why France and other more mature countries who have "seen it all" are stunned by this type of public crucifying without a trial; or even with a trial. The Bill Clinton/Lewinsky scandal damaged the country. Who did that damage was not Bill Clinton, unless he is the first president to ever have an extramarital affair while in office. The damage was done by the witch hunters who took away a great sitting president from his job to the detriment of the country and smeared the entire name of the democratic party in the doing.
At some point people need to STOP and think of the good of the country instead of their extreme political agendas. People don't like gay marriage. Duck Dynasty and Chic Fil A spelled that out clearly. A million hits on the "boycott A&E" page within hours of their announcement they retracted later to suspend Phil Robertson from the show.
The numbers are just not in for gay marriage; which, with respect to this thread's theme, is at the heart of it all.
Face it, [I believe Maddow has], when Christie gets elected, that house of cards will collapse and I believe she knows it. Hence the witchunt. The only trouble is that this country needs a man with the grit and tenacity of Christie to shape things up. Would be a shame to throw the baby out with the bathwater, providing there is even dirty bathwater...THE JURY IS STILL OUT.
You're kind of all over the map here..and it's not really worth addressing non-sequitur issues.
So to focus.
Maddow did a story on Christie's bridge closing.
Officials appointed by Christie said it was a "traffic study".
The Port Authority was not aware of the study.
The Christie administration then said they were unaware of the study.
They then joked about it.
Then, when the story got hot, Christie apologized and fired several top people from his administration.
They've lawyered up.
To be sure, unless there is something like a recording out there..I basically think that Christie is relatively safe as governor.
But this probably dashes his hopes for the White House. And if this is how he acts?
That's probably a good thing.