Somewhere along the line, I believe I promised not to make fun of CC’s weight. I also promised myself that I would never use the cheap journalistic trick of justifying a “provocative” headline that’s unlikely to be true simply by tacking a question mark on the end of it. Well, today I feel like wallowing in a twofer of sin. Still, I do have a point, which is this: Big Chris has been selling himself to the Wall Street crowd as, basically, the fat, white Obama: “Yeah, that guy talked entitlement reform. I can deliver.”
Most conservatives, Dave Weigel notes, are running interference for the Jersey fat boy: “It’s all jive, and, anyway, look at all the really bad shit that Obama has done.” But over at the National Reivew, Nicole Gelinas and Andrew McCarthy take turns sticking not needles but knives into the big man’s exposed flesh.
Nicole, who writes as though she herself were stuck on the GW for four straight days thanks to Christie’s minions, does something I thought I’d never see in the Review: show compassion and even respect for public-sector workers:
McCarthy is no less intense, putting the wood to Big Chris from the get-go:
But that was then—three years ago. This week, the raging bull turned sad puppy for two hours of bravura contrition after cashiering yet another top aide who, he says, lied to him. It is a different time, and this is a very different scandal. Yet, I can’t help suspecting it’s the same old Christie.
It’s almost like some conservatives don’t want a fat, white Obama for president.
Afterwords
Over at Politico, Olivia Nuzzi provides a list of 15 other items that might require some ‘splaining once Chris heads on out to Iowa. Most striking for me is Chris’s record behind the wheel: six accidents and thirteen moving violations! This is a man who needs a limo!
