Bridgegate comedy break (with update)

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Sunday January 19, 2014 · 11:04 PM PST

2014/01/19 · 23:04

The Bridgegate thing is so infuriating, and it has sucked so much emotional energy out of me... and then I stumbled into this video montage and appreciated the comic relief so much that I felt compelled to share: Late-night laughs: Gov. Christie's traffic turmoil

UPDATE: More comic relief! This one is in written form, and it provided just as much witty, laugh-out-loud entertainment: Is Chris Christie from Jersey or Jupiter?

15-Month Transformation - Romney's praise in 2014 for Christie doesn't make sense.

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Sunday January 19, 2014 · 10:17 PM PST

2014/01/19 · 22:17

Trying to reconcile these two articles keeps leading me to only one conclusion: one (or both) of these politicians must have undergone a complete transformation over the past 15 months. Otherwise, Romney's recent praise for Christie makes no sense to me. Even if I were a Republican and agreed with all of Romney's philosophical and political views, it still wouldn't make sense.

Here's how Romney and his campaign team assessed Christie in 2012 (presented in a 2013 Time article which I found via a diary by ProfWriter101): The Hunt for Pufferfish: A Double Down Excerpt.

In light of Romney's late-2012 assessment, I'm finding it difficult to comprehend (or believe the sincerity of) Romney's recent positive portrayal -- even praise -- of Christie's conduct surrounding Bridgegate in January 2014 (i.e., just 15 months after the 2012 assessment): Romney backs Christie as attacks, accusations mount over political retribution (Granted, the source of the more recent article is Fox News, but I'm assuming that they didn't make up the Romeny quotes... or am I being naive here?...)

How far and wide will Bridgegate investigations spread?

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Sunday January 19, 2014 · 11:57 AM PST

2014/01/19 · 11:57

NYDailyNews.com article this morning (see link below the orange squiggle) seems like a fitting expansion on two recent diaries by ProfWriter101, titled "Tip of The Iceberg for Christie" (original on 12/25/13 and its Part 2 on 1/14/14).

What struck me was how far back some of the scandals go: ProfWriter101's first diary contains links to articles from several years ago, and those articles themselves tell stories that date all the way back to Christie's college days.

So it brings up the question of whether the current Bridgegate investigations will expand in scope to include not only current and recent-past-but-only-now-emerging cases of political corruption and abuse of power (as predicted by ProfWriter101 and the NYDailyNews.com article), but also some of the scandals that stretch several years back -- with one objective being to establish and clarify the consistency of Christie's true character and motivation.

(* Note: This is my very first diary; please pardon any beginner's errors in format and/or presentation -- AND I would very much appreciate constructive feedback on any such beginner's errors, so as to improve my future contributions to DKos!)

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