So there's another Krispy Kreme Christie 'scandal'...as opposed to all the actual Obama scandals that the MSM have all but ignored and forgotten. Alright...but what the media's aiming at is only the peripheries. Focusing on the real issue at hand, Carol Platt Liebau pinpoints the problem that not only orbits the would-be RINO presidential candidate, but also the Statist-in-Chief himself, as well as Hillrod, Boehner and any number of self-aggrandizing politicians these days, getting to the heart of what should be receiving the headlines: the politicians' willingness to use Americans as pawns in their ongoing battles, internecine or otherwise...
So while the mainstream media continue to skewer Christie over this bridge fiasco, while applauding Obama's class warfare and further impoverishment plans for America, it might be helpful to recognize the games involved in either, as well as the inconveniences and consequences inflicting the American people. Just a consideration...but I guess that'd be asking for an objective media as well.Ricochet: Whether Governor Christie or President Obama were personally aware of the abuses perpetrated on their behalves is irrelevant. On some level, they set a tone in their administrations that signaled that such hardball would be tolerated, at least tacitly.
Something about the IRS scandal and this bridge problem does seem new, and profoundly troubling. Yes, politicians may have always played hardball with each other for one reason or another. Now, however, there seems to be a new willingness to do it by using innocent "civilian" Americans as their pawns.
All these Americans were seen (to the degree they were taken into consideration at all) as something akin to "collateral damage" in the political warfare the elites were waging among themselves. That's a sign of a political or governing elite that no longer has respect for the citizens it's supposed to represent; one that has forgotten—or no longer believes—that the people are its masters, not its servants.
Such an attitude is the sign of a government that has grown too big and too powerful. It signals a threat to liberty. And it has no place in a healthy, free country.
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ADDENDUM: The titans weigh in. Rush asks, "So why can’t he sleep two nights ago if he only learned about this one day ago?" Yep...
Glenn Beck simultaneously implored conservatives to "run from Chris Christie," explaining how, "This Chris Christie story is everything we despise in Barack Obama." Later, Beck concludes, "Here's the good news: I think this just ended his political career for president."
Then later, Mark Levin ripped into Christie for mimicking Democrats' "I Didn’t Know" line, with an exemplary montage...
