The news media today has examined thousands of documents pertaining to the closing of lanes of the George Washington Bridge in September, which was orchestrated by an aide of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/10/emails-show-police-partly-in-dark-on-nj-lane-closings/?intcmp=latestnews
"The documents did not implicate Christie in the lane closures."
OK. That was what Fox News said. Some of you may not accept what Fox says. It is also what CNN's Joe Johns reported.
That is not to say that a smoking gun document may not yet surface against Christie. Here is the point, however: Not only has Christie fired two of his aides, we are also seeing the availability of thousands of pages of documents that pertain to the incident. Compare that to Operation Fast and Furious, where the Justice Department is still holding thousands of pages requested by the House committee investigating that scandal. President Obama even went so far as to place them under "executive privilege". Eric Holder, in my view, perjured himself before Congress repeatedly. How about the IRS scandal? How forthcoming has the administration been on that one? How about Benghazi, the worst scandal of them all? What have we seen there but lies coming from Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and President Obama?
It's too soon to declare Christie innocent of this mess, but what we have seen in the last two days is pretty refreshing compared to what we see in Washington.
Well, no close aides to President Obama have closed lanes on federally funded highway bridges in North Carolina, Indiana, nor have they closed ports in Texas.
ReplyDeleteAnd no close aides to Christie ran a program to run guns into Mexico. Christie aides didn't sic the IRS onto the Tea Party.
ReplyDeleteNo all Obama did was to use the IRS against his political opponents. Just like Nixon did BTW.
ReplyDeleteSiarlys--you are sucking wind on this one, with comments like that. If that is the best you can do, you had better close down shop. What Obama and his herd have been up to is approximately infinitely worse than closing lanes. Poor babies in Ft. Lee.
ReplyDeleteSiarlys--a little recent history here, OK??
ReplyDeleteelwood p suggins said...
I reiterate that in all of the many appeals, there has never been a finding of any fabrication, perjury, or anything else of that nature.
January 10, 2014 at 11:24 AM
Siarlys Jenkins said...
I reiterate that in all of the many appeals, there has never been a finding of any fabrication, perjury, or anything else of that nature.
You think it becomes more true or less false the more often you repeat it?
Any more silly word games you'd like to play?
January 10, 2014 at 7:13 PM
Siarlys Jenkins said...
When you have evidence that the White House staff closed federal toll bridges in states that didn't vote for President Obama, then you would have an analogous situation.
January 9, 2014 at 7:43 PM
Siarlys Jenkins said...
Well, no close aides to President Obama have closed lanes on federally funded highway bridges in North Carolina, Indiana, nor have they closed ports in Texas.
January 10, 2014 at 6:59 PM
You think it becomes more true or less false the more often you repeat it? Any more silly word games YOU'D like to play?? At least I recognized and disclaimered mine as reiteration/repetition.
elwood... are you trying to make a point? Because if you are, you haven't presented it with any clarity. Perhaps you need to sit down, look over your source material, get your thoughts organized, write a clear thesis as introductory sentence, then explain how the sources you can offer substantiate your thesis... if you can do so with any integrity or credibility.
ReplyDeleteEchoes of all your old resentments just doesn't cut it Elmer.
Gary, all the events you reference involve branches of government actually doing their job, and perhaps doing it less than competently or over-zealously. Nobody made up something totally outside their job description with no purpose but to inflict pain on hapless commuters.
As I've said before, I would investigate a lot of those "Tea Party" organizations also -- there is a lot of abuse of those tax statuses by groups that are in fact spending their money on partisan politicking, numerically, those bearing the "Tea Party" lable are a large proportion just now.
Even better though, all "tax exempt" organization statuses should be abolished. Then we wouldn't be worried about which organizations have the official IRS stamp of legitimacy. Everyone would pay their taxes, then donate whatever they wish to whatever they consider worthwhile, without expecting to deduct that from their taxes. Of course I take the standard deducation, I don't file a Schedule A, just a Schedule SE and a CE-Z in addition to m W-2 income, so I wouldn't miss it anyway.