Sensible Centrists and Christie's Magic Budget Beans

Almost all of my centrist friends loved them some Chris Christie.  The few that would listen discounted what I told them: that the guy was utterly full of crap and a fully partisan political animal.  Note: it's ok to be partisan!  But they all believed he was a bipartisan straight-shootin' centrist. And that was just an act. 

The Other Christie Scandal

"What is it that makes self-proclaimed centrists such easy marks for right-wing con men? Actually, it's not that much of a mystery: the centrist creed is that the two parties are symmetrically extremist, and this means that there must, as a matter of principle, be Serious, Honest Republicans out there — so such people must be invented if they don't actually exist. Hence the elevation of Paul Ryan despite clear evidence of his con-artist nature. And hence, also, the love affair with Chris Christie."

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/the-other-christie-scandal/

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This guy killed the biggest public works project in the country, during a recession, so he could funnel the money from a rail project into new highway contracts.  Thus, a massive slush fund for Christie to ladle out,  and at the same time artificially keep NJ gas taxes below the prevailing norm.  Truly, a great fiscal conservative. 

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