Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Countdown: How Big a 'Bully' is Chris Christie?

If you haven't been keeping up with Keith Olbermann since returning to the airwaves last month,you've been missing out on some good TV. Last night Olbermann ran a segment that addressed NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney's recent outburst concerning Governor Christie use of the line-item veto to slash many provisions out of the Democratically crafted State budget.

Sweeney went ballistic on Friday, calling Christie every name in the book after learning of the cuts. Evidently Sweeney is feeling a little betrayed and let down by the Governor after delivering him his victory in the fight over pension and benefit reforms with state workers unions.

In the future, Stephen Sweeney should be a little more leery about who he intended to make a bed with. Once you decide to sleep with them, your soiled for life and it is hard to undo sleaziness of how you feel after.

After all, what did Sweeney expect from a big bully like Chris Christie? Once a bully, always a bully. Your either a friend or a foe, there's no in-between. And Christie has made it very evident what he considers Sweeney to be. The problem for Sweeney however, is that many of his constituents around the state are also beginning to see where Sweeney stands on the issues and they don't like it.


On Friday, New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney called Governor Chris Christie a "bully" and a "rotten bastard." And that wasn't all. Keith talks with Evan McMorris-Santoro of Talking Points Memo about the political betrayal that set Sweeney off and what it reveals about New Jersey's large-and-in-charge governor.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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MiddletownMike said...

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Until the video is off the main page(after a few more post) you wont have any problems,until then when you visit the blog just hit the stop button on the video to stop it.

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