I don't think he'll need to worry about that anymore. (Ann Coulter's talk with Glenn Beck the other morning tells me that even SHE gets it.)
If Christie had balls as big as his mouth he would have told the poser in chief, "Give me everything I need now or I tell the cameras you refused without my public praise."
I didn't want to be too hard on the guy the other day here on FR, but I believe you are probably right. Anyone who was surprised he didn't turn into some righteous, combative conservative action hero has not been paying attention to a number of realities. Your suggestion might have been an excellent way for him to deal with the thug-in-chief.
I have to hand it to all of you NYC-area FReepers who have to deal with layers of governmental, union and - apparently - next-door-neighbor intransigence that make my own situation look like a libertarian's dream; under good circumstances, it has to suck... and these are not good circumstances.
Mr. niteowl77
Because of where I live a lot of my neighbors are first generation (half the adults on my street were born overseas). But, they are all educated and successful enough to pay a minimum of $750k to buy a house.
My point is that even though there are multiple nationalities, languages and religions in my neighborhood, everybody is cool with everybody else and there's a lot of "what do you need, what can I do? going on.
Of course there's an under-pinning of old-school 'Mericans around too and we are the ones setting the example with the chain saws and the DIY road-clearing.
A while ago I made it a mission to find out who's around who's been around. I got another former LEO and a Marine on the block. We are all ready for anything and on the same page about who has what covered. Oddly enough, we are also the only guys with cigars and single malts in the house.
Unfortunately, I have more natural born citizens around who are more ACLU than NRA than I do guys I can count on, but, hey, this is NY.
One guy in particular is a real lib/metro/dope. I lost a tree in front and I had it butchered and stacked before the rain stopped falling. He came walking by and shook his head in disbelief that this was something you could do yourself...he actually said that he would have waited for the town. His house has the only Obama/Biden sign in the neighborhood...kinda says it all.