NEWSMAX COLUMN: …By declaring that he had no knowledge and nothing to do with the traffic gridlock, he has hunkered down into a position that might be increasingly difficult to defend. The Democrats in the New Jersey Legislature — they’re in control of both chambers — are likely to probe deeply into his denials and there may even be a federal investigation by a Senate committee.
After all, the ironclad nature of Christie’s denial — his assertion that he knew nothing about it — will likely not stand up. A plot like this is not hatched among subordinates with the chief left in total ignorance. At the bottom of the pile of emails that will emerge may be one in which Christie emulates the famous request of King Henry II of England, who asked his aides about Thomas Becket: “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
Gov. Christie is stuck. He can’t maneuver. His denial is too tight. His reputation too much at stake. It will not do for him to say, subsequently, that “it depends on what the definition of is, is.” If his hand is anywhere in evidence after his denials, he is both stuck and sunk… (more)
EDITOR: Absolutely! For us ‘oldsters’, this has all the markings of Richard Nixon’s bungling of the Watergate crisis. Once you plead your case, you don’t get two chances to tell the truth.
” A plot like this is not hatched among subordinates with the chief left in total ignorance. ”
This is probably the comment of someone who has never supervised employees. I’m not saying Christie didn’t know, but it only takes a short time as a supervisor to know that people do unauthorized, stupid, naive, and unsafe things all the time.
What Christie needs is to trot out the e-mail where he tells the employees not to do any such actions. Without that prior notification, his case will be weak. Worse yet, if he doesn’t have such a memo in his back pocket, then he isn’t presidential material, at least not yet.