Chris Christie Says Shutdown Would Be Different If He Was In Charge

[agentsculder]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday blamed President Barack Obama for "not bringing people together" during the government shutdown debate and said the president would be ultimately responsible for a funding stoppage.

"My approach would be, as the executive, is to call in the leaders of the Congress, the legislature, whatever you're dealing

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[roseofjuly]

Christie, you do understand that this is not how it works, right?

You also understand that Republicans do remember the nice things you said about Obama in the wake of Sandy and that they will never forget that you said nice things about a Democrat, because apparently playing nice with the other party is not appreciated these days?

[moonshaz]

And here we have Chris Christie milking a national catastrophe to drop hints about what a (supposedly) fantastic and (supposedly) much more effective potus he would (supposedly) be. Nice.

[nycscribbler]

Um. I'm actually pretty sure the President can't do that, Christie, but you keep stroking your... ego... there.

[shortsweetcynic]

oh, shut up, chris christie. just shut. the fuck. up.

...and Rep. Paul Ryan are also current members of Congress who are thought to be considering a presidential bid in 2016.

oh, god, no. no no no. i cannot bear a year-plus of looking at that smarmy little fucker's face while he campaigns. pleeeeeeeeease no.

[emofordino]

SERIOUSLY, my brain is still recovering from trying to contain my rage from the LAST election whenever i would see his stupid, smug-ass face.

[bellichka]

The thing is, IIRC, the Dems did try to negotiate, something like 18 times? And the Reps said no. Then, at the 11th hour, Dems offered to meet with Reps AFTER the Reps passed the spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown, and the Reps still said no.

It's like you said, OP, it must be nice for Christie to view all this from afar and blame Obama. But at the end of the day, it's pretty damn difficult to lock people in a room when they won't even *meet* with you.