Chris Christie exits - early - before House Judiciary finishes questioning him [VIDEO]

Republicans can ignore (0.00 / 0)

subpoenas too.
Criminal behavior and Republicans:
Perfect Together.
That has a certain ring to it that could make it a popular slogan.

Restore democracy and the Constitution for which it stands.

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by: The Wizard @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 12:43:07 PM UTC

The empty chair (0.00 / 0)

makes for a great Corzine ad, doesn't it?

I always thought that the Kelley contract was the most outrageous since it suggests a direct quid pro quo.  And this illustrates it perfectly.

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by: Rufus T Firefly @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 16:38:39 PM UTC

A great Christie ad (0.00 / 0)

Considering Congress's low approval rating and the contempt most people have for Congressmen, I suspect Christie will be the beneficiary of this farce.

From the few mainstream media accounts I've seen, Cjhristie actually showed up early and the hearing started twenty minutes late.  Since the Chairman knew Christie had a train to catch, and if Christie's testimony was so important, he should have made sure to start on time.  

Some media reports focused more on the fireworks between Chairman Cohen and Christie over the former's use of a "Godfather" quote to characterize Christie's use of DPA's than any of the issues relevant to DPAs.  I'm sure Corzine won't pick up any Italian-American votes from this hearing.

It didn't help dems either that the current Justice Department opposes many of the items contained in Pallone's legislation, and testified accordingly.

From the accounts I've seen so far it seems Democrats may have overplayed their hand on this issue.  Even the most deluded Democrat partisan can't deny that Christie's running for Governor had nothing to do with the setting and timing for these hearings.  And most voters will likely view this issue the same way.  

With so many people losing their jobs and their homes, taxes going up while services are being cut, nobody except insiders and junkies are going to care about this "inside the beltway" stuff anyway.

http://christiegonewild.blogsp...

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by: ken bank @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 17:16:56 PM UTC

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Dead Wrong. Christie Performed Poorly (0.00 / 0)

If anyone watched the whole hearing, and the testimony from Pallone and Pascrell; it's clear that Christie failed to address any of the underlying issues of these kinds of "agreements" that let corporate criminals get off scott free.

If anything, it looked like the congressional Democrats here were totally unprepared to go after Christie.   There was clearly NO coordination/prparation....and, frankly, there should have been.

One thing that WAS effective about the Reublicans under Bush, they actually worked together to defeat Democrats.   Getting the Dems to do that is like herding cats.   There are times when party discipline is a good thing!

The monies paid out by the corporations may not come directly out of taxpayer pockets but they surely come out of COMSUMER pockets in the form of more expensive medical devices.

The corporate CRIMINAL extortionists guilty of these crimes got away with paying nothing in the way of fines and no trials and no jail time.    They got away with murder and Chris Christie enabled it.

If I'm Jon Corzine I have NO problem making that case directly to the people to NJ and if Christie had the balls, challenging him to a two hour debate on just this one issue.

Christie is a retrograde Bush appointee with retrograde Bush values and the instincts and history of a party hack.   God forbid he becomes governor; the state will be going from the frying pan into the fire.

This deferred prosecution agreement was a gift to to criminal corporate actors who engaged in extortion and bribery and it was a gift to Jon Ashcroft to the tune of 50 million (or more dollars).  Ashcroft's firm (that was SUPPOSED to be "monitoring" the criminal corporation then takes more money directly from them to advise hem on OTHER areas where they might have criminal exposure...all while he's being paid 50 million bucks to "monitor" them.

The fact that Christie sees nothing wrong with that, alone, makes him unquaified to public service.

Christie is a certifiable bum and if he doesn't get his ass whupped in this election; Corzine is an idiot.

And there have to be 25 more issues on which Christie's positions are even weaker than they are here.
 

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by: Nick Lento @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 19:05:23 PM UTC

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