Following up on the weekend tirade, Team Christie ‘leaks’ a new ‘memo’. This time to the Daily Caller slamming The New York Times. The Times gave Christie some real grist for criticism. And this one isn’t as crazy as the other one. But leaked memos are not changing the fact that Christie is knee deep in quick and sinking.
News broke last yesterday evening that another Christie aide currently under subpoena has resigned.
With the help of friends on Twitter, I’ve found the title for the top new job in a politicians’ office for the social media age: ScapeTern. That’s an intern who’s kept around solely for the purpose of being fired when the boss does something really stupid or offensive on Twitter. Like here.
Usage: “It’s a mystery why Scott Brown still hasn’t hired a scapetern.”
Actually, I can think of so many cases of these people. But I’m sort of at loss at the moment. What are your favorite scapetern stories?
Bridget Kelly, the fired former Deputy Chief of Staff to Gov. Christie (R-NJ) (who sent the “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email) is telling the New Jersey legislative panel she’ll be pleading the 5th and won’t be turning over any of the subpoenaed documents because of it violates her “privacy.”
Ed Kilgore: “Immediately after the retreat ended, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor went on Face the Nation, and pressed mildly by Major Garrett on these obvious subjects, collapsed into incoherence.”
Fidel Castro, pushing 90, five plus years after relinquishing at least de jure power, voting to approve delegates to national and provincial assemblies. February 3rd, 2013.
Tell me again how successful that embargo has been?
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After Christie’s on-going self-immolation, Mike Huckabee is now the GOP frontrunner for 2016.
Ex-Republican oppo researcher Barbara Comstock, who was obsessed with bringing down the Clintons, has a decent shot at retiring Rep. Frank Wolf’s (R-VA) seat — that is, unless this guy who thinks Virginia should mint its own money runs. Then who knows who the Republican base will go for?
Read Daniel Strauss’ deep dive on Comstock’s attack dog past.
PR company with ties to Gov. Chris Christie: We’re “wholly uninvolved” in the BridgeGate scandal, but we’re hiring a law firm anyway. (And oh, by the way, it’s Rudy Giuliani’s law firm.)
Yet another example of the shortcomings of most political reporters not knowing much about public policy. Republicans are hyping a CBO report claiming it says Obamacare will cost over 2 million jobs. Not what it says. It says that a lot of people who are in jobs partly or solely to hold on to health insurance will decide to drop out of the labor force.
Legendary GOP political operative, Nixon devotee and self-proclaimed practitioner of dark political arts, Roger Stone, is coming to the defense of David Wildstein who he says he’s known for more than 30 years. Stone says Wildstein is exactly “the kind of man you’d send to close down a bridge”, in contrast to Team Christie’s claim that Wildstein acted alone.