Super standard.

Blood in the water.

This reminds me of the Tiger Woods Bimbo Eruption.

The Lt. Governor had faux outrage at the mention of holding back sandy relief funds from mayors that won't play ball. It looked like a SNL parody.

Trenton is on fire, like burning to the ground in a 20 subpoena alarm inferno, and Fox News is talking about the Bachelor. This **** is awesome.

Forgot to mention one of the 20 subpoenas that went out to a staffer in Christie's office: Christina Genovese Renna, Director of Departmental Relations



Got a lot to tell, but I got a book to write. Cheddar, bitches!

This Lt Gov Guadagno is also a former prosecutor, and I already told you in my first post itt how corrupt prosecutors turned politicians are. No way does this Mayor Zimmer make up this story and submit written journals that can be forensically dated so that she can sit in jail.

they just played the video on hardball. chris matthews says the lt gov looked like she was a hostage or POW reading a ransom note. the notebook that zimmer turned in, they showed the written pages, she uses this spiral noteboook for her daily diary. haley barbour evidently suggested she went back recently and added those pages. doesnt seem possible. she would have to had left out the pages way back then.

they went back to lt gov, and they are laughing at her on Hardball. like high school crap. and way to not take questions there lt gov, i mean one gal is 2 hours before US attorneys, willing to testify under oath, and you read that lawyered up crap and cant answer one question?

Jim, you seem to have a boner over this. What do you think is the end result? Oviously more heads will roll in his administration but will it cost Christie his job? Does he resign?

zomg the burning truth, a woman's diary!11111!!!!eleventyone!

The "burning truth" will be her sworn testimony. Her diary just corroborates that. She also claims that she and another Christie rep were mic'd up when the same demand was made on another occasion. Ruh roh if a tape exists.

Olympian Carl Lewis Says Chris Christie Tried to Intimidate Him


The Lt. Gov's husband was elevated to NJ's appellate court in 2012. What could go wrong?

Michael Guadagno, Husband of Lt. Gov., Elevated to Appellate Judge

Previously he was a Family Court judge, but there he was of little use to Christie, the Port Authority and NJ's mob.

Nobody could possibly dissuade Carl Lewis from running.

LOL at the fat man cancelling a fitness program for political reasons. Is this real life or a Jay Leno joke?

I just happened to read the section of Double Down (sequel to Game Change) about Christie being vetted for the VP short list. Of the five candidates being looked at he was the only one who was difficult to get information from but, from what they saw, Romney's staff was appalled at how many scandals they found lurking. One noted that they would have destroyed Christie if he had entered the primary against them.

I definitely wouldn't put too much stock in the word of Romney campaign guys who just about bankrupted the campaign trying to destroy frothy and never learned how to poll the electorate correctly.

The most realistic thing I have heard is that Christie refused to answer questions and they hate him for several snubs inc his convention speech & the Sandy Obama hug stuff.

As this scandal extends well into its second week, Governor Chris Christie remains extremely overweight.

The problem for the Romney campaign was that they needed to resort to going full negative so often. As far as actually fire bombing another candidate, they were very effective at it. Look at the poll numbers for Santorum or Gingrich and how fast they tanked when Romney really went after them.

The book gives a number of specific examples on Christie problems that I did not copy here, it's not just a random assertion. I thought it was pretty interesting given recent events.

Apparently Christie was a single term county commissioner when he first ran for office in the 90s. Seems he pissed off the local republican party by running commercials saying that his primary opponents were being investigated by the DA when they weren't. They sued after the election and won. However, Christie was appointed US Attorney by Bush after doing significant fundraising and was able to rehabilitate his career (though many say he was unduly aggressive prosecuting politicians for things much less significant than he is accused if.) Christie reminds me of a saying, "Good from far, but far from good." Also, not to pile on, but his insane seeming wife must have a hell of a personality because I believe he married her before he somehow became morbidly obese.

Judging from the interviews he's done on Maddow, the chair of the NJ committee investigating the bridge/Port Authority will run circles around Christie and his team.

The Romney campaign has no real reason to lie about the reasons they didn't pick Christie, it's not like they are referencing fiction. Corzine tried to run with them back in 2009, but he was such a scumbag himself they never got any traction. It'd be a different story in a Presidential race

This was very good:

Greg Palast | Christie and Koch in Cahoots? It's Time to Subpoena the Committee for Our Children's Future

And the links in that article are very good, especially this one: http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=8702

So I post two NYT articles actually connecting Christie to the mob, not just to the mob, but to the actual leader of the biggest and most powerful mafia family in the US, with his homebase in New Jersey, and who is actually in the same family as Christie, went to family gatherings with Christie, whose US attorney's office prosecuted his criminal case, and had Christie visit him in prison, and your response is:

Uh, wat?

Unlikely that the head of the most powerful mafia family in New Jersey does not gain financially or legally from a family member who happens to be the US attorney of New Jersey and then the governor of NJ. It's not really even a choice Christie would get to make.

Fortunately he died in 2010. And it's not at all uncommon for the FBI and CIA to work together with the mafia, so perhaps he got a pass for informing on Russian, Chinese, Korean mobs etc, but Tino was not one to let a goldmine like Christie remain untouched:

If it meant taking Jersey back from the Dems, I don't doubt that Rove, Bush and their gaggle of billionaires wouldn't bat an eyelash at a little mafia vote hustling for the GOP family. No, they would look the other way.

That's why Christie had the balls to say that there was more mafia on HBO than in Jersey.

No honest, non-crooked US attorney for Jersey would say that.

There's plenty of scandals to bury Christie right now without having to jump the shark on possible mob connections. Unless you have actual evidence of him acting on any mafia ties shut the **** up because you're undermining the actual wrongdoings him and his administration have committed.

yeah, i saw the AP report today. State lawmakers to drop probe into Christie and await outcome of internet forum investigations.

amazing

fbi interviewing mayor's staff...this from msnbc michael isokoff

The two Zimmer aides are among at least five witnesses who Zimmer told the FBI could confirm that she had previously told them about the conversation she says she had with Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno last May. Zimmer has alleged that during that conversation in a parking lot, the lieutenant governor linked Sandy funding to backing of the development project


and

David Mello, a member of the Hoboken City Council, told NBC News that Zimmer told him about the Guadagno conversation last summer, either in late July or early August as they were walking home after an event. “I distinctly remember [Zimmer] saying that the lieutenant governor said, ‘If this came out, she would deny it,’” he said

I believe it was Let's Gambool who stated to Steelehouse, "Don't think outside the box. The box, it's for you."

Lou, you couldn't think your way outta a wet paper bag, let alone a box.

Pulling for the Seahawks, tho. Good Luck with that...seriously.

Christie's henchman shut down tailgate parties tho, more money for Met Life concessionaires. Christie gonna Christie...that's how the Genoveses roll..