Christie On Boehner Resignation: ‘We’ve All Seen This Coming’

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticizes the nuclear accord brokered by President Barack Obama’s administration during a campaign stop near Annapolis, Md., on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Christie, who is running for... New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticizes the nuclear accord brokered by President Barack Obama’s administration during a campaign stop near Annapolis, Md., on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Christie, who is running for the GOP nomination for president, said the claim that inspections can happen anytime is “another in the series of his lies.” (AP Photo/Brian Witte) MORE LESS

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) suggested Friday that House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) resignation was a foregone conclusion.

“I think we’ve all seen this coming,” Christie said on Sirius XM’s “The Michael Smerconish Program.” “That there’s been a split between portions of the Republic conference and the speaker over time on certain strategic decisions.”

The Republican presidential candidate said that he couldn’t be sure of the reasoning behind Boehner’s decision. But he noted that Pope Francis’ address to a joint session of Congress, made possible by Boehner’s invitation, was a “real” and “emotional” moment for the House speaker.

“I almost feel that yesterday he saw that with Pope Francis standing in the well of the Congress that just may be a good way to end his Congressional career,” Christie said. “I don’t know that to be true, but I have to tell you he looked very emotional yesterday and looked to me like somebody who felt like he had accomplished all he wanted to accomplish. And if that’s the case, then good for him. Let him go off and live the rest of the life now knowing that he came to Congress and he accomplished the things that in his heart he believed he wanted to accomplish.”

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  1. Did you open another lane on the George Washington Bridge to help it along?

  2. Avatar for pine pine says:

    What are you talking about ?

    "If you ask too many questions, you will find no answers, only more questions.

    Monica Fairview,"
  3. Avatar for hoagie hoagie says:

    What did he accomplish Chrispie?

  4. Let him go off and live the
    rest of the life now knowing that he came to Congress and he accomplished the
    things that in his heart he believed he wanted to accomplish."

    Which explains his reaction about two minutes before announcing he was going Full Metal Palin

  5. There is an obvious split between Christie’s ambition and the vast majority of Republican voters, so I think we can all see his resignation from the presidential race coming.

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