If there is one politician that I cannot stand, it's gotta be Chris Christie, I have been pointing out Christie's venality for years, starting with my contempt for his botching of a cross-Hudson rail tunnel. This month, Jersey's transit woes seemed to metastasize, with a couple of derailments, delays in track repairs, and in a grand finale of suckitude, a police-incident sparked stampede among pre-holiday weekend commuters waiting for already delayed trains.
New Jersey's transit system is a bleeping disaster. As much as I kvetch about subway delays and service changes involving slower shuttle bus travel, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority has a fine track record when it comes to getting people from point A to point B. Of course, we don't have a governor who is hostile to infrastructure spending like that asshole in Jersey. Part of me would feel sorry for the Jerseyites stuck in Penn Station, a rathole if ever there was one, but these assholes sent Christie back to the governor's mansion knowing that he had no interest in commuters' concerns. Elect a particularly nasty, bullying authoritarian, don't expect things to work out well for you.
I just try and remember that Chritie was a guy too corrupt and tainted for Trump to hire (even after Christie had helped him get elected...).
ReplyDeleteCaveat: OK, Christie had prosecuted Kuschner's daddy years back, too. But mostly, Christie was too corrupt and tainted for Trump.
I don't think it was the corruption that bugged Trump, it was the Kushner connection that did him in... also, I think Christie's personality is too much like Trump's for them to get along- two bullies in one room is a bit much for each of them.
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