Dammit, Chris Christie, you gave the media exactly what they wanted! You've given them something to cover other than Obama scandals, incompetence, and cronyism. Can you be surprised that you are under so many spotlights that you can't even distinguish any one of them individually? To think that some people thought this bumptious blimp could beat out Hillary in the Presidential race! Of course, even if your governorship made George Washington look like Bill Clinton, they would still make a scandal up to use against you. (Do you remember Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and Joe Septic?) At least we can try to bust frauds.
(If you want to imagine something truly appalling, imagine an actual footrace between Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie.)
Now that I've done yelling at CC (for the moment), a warning for the rest of you. B e ready for the Love Canal Media to stretch this bridge fiasco as long as they can, with endless breathless updates and "exclusives". The LCM wants to keep their gaze (and hopefully, in their eyes, yours, too) on the figure of Chris Christie (pun intended) until they catch another Republican doing or saying something they can make a scandal out of. As the media pirates yell, "Prepare to be bored!"
Few sights amuse more than the consternation of the Left when they are wounded by the turncoats they prepared to join their crew. They are shocked that Robert "Beltway Bob" Gates would dare to criticise their Mickey Mouse Club foreign and military policies. Turnabout, I call it. How do you suppose we Republicans felt when Gates consented to stay on as Secretary of Defense. You kept him because he was pliable, and would change teams to stay in office. Why are you surprised when he leaves the ship and tells the reading public (that which remains) and the media of the brainlessness of the captain and his officers. Bob Gates may be fond of the military, but he's more fond of Bob Gates, and it's only Bob to make more money and TV time for himself.
Be the President Republican or Democrat, George W or Barry O, a tiger is a tiger, a jackel is a jackel, and a Gates is a Gates.
If coal industry executives are, shall we say, reluctant to trust Democrats and environmentalists, one can hardly blame them. The "war on coal" goes back longer than you may realize.
First the coal power plant owners were ordered to either retrofit their plants to use clean coal or install costly "stack scrubbers" in their smokestacks. They complied.
Then they were told that they had to install stack scrubbers into the smokestacks of the plants that had converted to clean coal. There were protests, but "no mercy, no quarter" - they had to do it or face business-killing fines. Again they complied. The real pollutants that made "smog" a word in the dictionary virtually disappeared from our air.
So naturally, the enviros and their Democrat wage-slaves declared the second most important gas for life on earth a pollutant, so that they could continue their torture-murder of a great American industry. Their theories are wildly, transparently false, but that never stops a dedicated power-hungry lefty.
Personally, I think that if every member of radical environmental groups like the Sierra Club would just stop exhaling, it would do more good for the planet than the shutting down of every coal-fired plant in America.
I know I'd breathe easier.
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