So just how bad is this George Washington Bridge traffic incident?

The Weekly Standard ^ | January 15, 2014 | Jonathan V. Last

[yoe]

1. So just how bad is this George Washington Bridge traffic incident?

It's bad. Pretty bad. Super bad, even. Chief executives just don't use the power of government to exact revenge on ordinary citizens for what they take to be political insubordination.

To put this in context, imagine what it would be like for a presidential administration to(close down national parks) in order to intentionally inflict pain on people trying to visit them. Or if some other administration (had the IRS target individuals and groups from the opposing side. Thankfully, things like that never, ever happen.)

2) Wait a minute, I see what you’re doing there…

As The One likes to say, let’s be clear: I’m not doing Christie any favors by saying tu quoque and pointing to even worse scandals from Barack Hussein Obama. But I would like to echo an (astute observation from John Podhoretz) over the weekend:

According to Scott Whitlock of the Media Research Center, "In less than 24 hours, the three networks have devoted 17 times more coverage to a traffic scandal involving Chris Christie than they’ve allowed in the last six months to Barack Obama’s Internal Revenue Service controversy."

[yoe]

Christie does provide a pretty sizable silhouette for a smoke screen......*~*

[CivilWarBrewing]

The sudden media frenzy over this so-called ‘Bridgegate’ affair, overshadowing Robert Gates’ book bashing of team Obama is way too coincidental for it not to have been orchestrated by the Government-Run Media.

[DannyTN]

It should be bad. This kind of misuse of power should disqualify a person from office. Whether it’s a RINO state governor or a manchurion President.

[DannyTN]

It should be bad. This kind of misuse of power should disqualify a person from office. Whether it’s a RINO state governor or a manchurion President.

[bkepley]

It’s worse than a crime. It’s a blunder.

[Michael.SF.]

Never, ever trust a Democrat.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

"In less than 24 hours, the three networks have devoted 17 times more coverage to a traffic scandal involving Chris Christie than they’ve allowed in the last six months to Barack Obama’s Internal Revenue Service controversy."

I keep seeing this comparison, and it's more than a little disingenuous. The IRS scandal broke about 8 months before the bridge controversy. Comparing the 24 hour period immediately after one scandal breaks (which is the media "feeding frenzy" period for nearly any scandal--yes, including the IRS scandal) with a period beginning 2 months after another scandal broke isn't really a meaningful comparison.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And also don’t forget, practically the same day this story broke Hitlery666 Clinton started her internet campaign for POTUS, so it could have been both of those Benghazi collaborators - B.Hussien Islamo and Hitlery666 working in concert.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3b.htm

[DannyTN]

"The sudden media frenzy over this so-called ‘Bridgegate’ affair, overshadowing Robert Gates’ book bashing of team Obama is way too coincidental for it not to have been orchestrated by the Government-Run Media."

If it was orchestrated, then it means:

• They are sacrificing Christie to distract from Obamacare.
• They have another gay promoting liberal other than Christie that they want to see as the GOP nominee and they needed to clear Christie out of the way to promote him.
• They think Christie had grown in power enough that there wouldn't be a distructive GOP primary, and they needed to weaken him.

  If it wasn't orchestrated then it means...

• They have become disorganized and this got away from them before they could squash it. The zeal of their members attaching a GOP governor, interfering with their master plan of having liberals as the nominee of both parties.
• They have lost discipline.

[Fido969]

so-called ‘Bridgegate’ affair

Call it: "Bridghazi". Then everytime it comes up, you'll remind people of Benghazi.

[henkster]

Communists aren’t disorganized and never lose discipline when dealing with an enemy of the Party.

[ops33]

“Chief executives just don’t use the power of government to exact revenge on ordinary citizens...”

Obama can use the IRS to do just that and get away with it.

[NotTallTex]

Can’t have a free republic without a free press. Can’t have a free republic without a God-fearing people. We have neither.

[gitmo]

And the National Park Service.

[Don Corleone]

So just how bad is this George Washington Bridge traffic incident?

I don't know. How bad was Benghazi,the IRS, Fast and Furious, Obama's lies? Depends on whose ox they want to gore.

[Servant of the Cross]

Mere chump change when compared to this ...!

Senate probe finds that al Qaeda WAS involved, Americans died, and IT WAS PREVENTABLE!

[BuckeyeTexan]

Excellent!

[colorado tanker]

I guess it’s just me, but my giveacrap meter doesn’t move over the issue of New Jersey road closures.

[CMailBag]

It’s ssoooooooooo bad that the mediacrats and the Tea Party are on the same side.

[Slyfox]

The demoncraps are suffering from Obamacare backlash. They are not looking forward to the 2014 elections. It also has the demoncrap media on edge.

So, they obviously have to make any plausible Republican look like crap, you know, so we will all think that the Republican crap smells worse than the demoncrap.