I don’t pay enough attention to politics in my home state of New Jersey. I think I fear it would sap all of my youthful idealism.
I certainly did not celebrate Chris Christie’s victory last fall. And his governance so far has been exactly what I feared. He’s actually trying to do what he campaigned on: make huge cuts to public schools, higher education, hospitals, and other public services that people rely on. But there’s a certain honesty and virtue in that: we elected him, and we should have known what we were getting.
And I find his long, frustrated comeback to a reporter’s asinine process-oriented question kind of refreshing. I do think it seems a little rehearsed. I mean it’s just too good, I have a hard time imagining he came up with it on the spot. The one-liner about Corzine definitely sounds planned. But still, I’m glad to see a politician show a little life, a little personality. And it’s a very New Jersey personality at that. I can see this episode giving the Governor a little boost: his poll numbers have nowhere to go but up.
Watch it here.
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