Think Progress is on the story as Chris Christie was doing the useless Sunday Talk Show circuit(Up, Melissa Harris-Perry and Disrupt are the only things worth being on the air on Sunday but I digress) and on This Week, Christie was asked some questions on immigration.
Transcript from Think Progress and emphasis is theirs:
STEPHANOPOULOS: A path to citizenship relief on in-state college tuition?
CHRISTIE: It has to be figured out by those in charge of the national government. My job is to fix what’s going on in New Jersey. I will tell you this, George, we won’t be able to fix everything in New Jersey until the national leaders set a national immigration policy….
STEPHANOPOULOS: Including a path to citizenship?
CHRISTIE: George, I don’t get to make those determinations. It’s 2013, i just got elected the governor of New Jersey again. I have already said what I believe. It’s a broken system and it needs to be fixed. Let’s get to work doing it.
Gee, Governor Christie, I thought you wanted to be President or something where it would be your
job to make such decisions. And saying that it has to be figured out by those in charge of national government is basically "leading from behind". I would think a guy who won a blue state with 60% of the vote would be able to put a lot of pressure on those in Congress who think they need to listen to the deadender racists whose solution to immigration is to "deport them all".
Think Progress rightfully points out that Gov. Christie was more bold(and correct on the issue) in the past where he said in 2010 that a pathway to citizenship was common sense and needed.
Here's a protip for you Governor Christie: If you're afraid of mouth breathers in the Iowa and South Carolina primaries, you don't deserve to be President. Certainly, our current President has never backed down from mouth breathers who happen to be the leaders of other countries(yes, I mean Putin). Clearly, you are running from President in 2016, and this marks the long fall from general election electability because you had to play to those deadender Tea Party types in Iowa. I wonder if you'll next say that you actually know where President Obama was born or something along those lines for those folks in Iowa.