Following up on an item from yesterday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and his lieutenant governor were told Sunday about the blizzard barreling down on the Garden State. Soon after, they left town at the same time, with Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R) and her family flying to Mexico, and Christie and his family going to Disney World in Florida.
It left state Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D) in charge as the acting governor, and by all appearances, he's handling everything fine -- he declared a state of emergency, dispatched road crews, coordinated with state agencies, and activated the National Guard. The response seems to have gone fairly well, and Sweeney lifted the state of emergency this morning.
But there's still the political fallout to consider. Many are questioning why the Christie administration allowed both the governor and lieutenant governor to go on vacation at the same time, despite warnings about the impending storm. Others have noted that the governor isn't bothering to rush home to deal with the situation.
So both the Governor and the Lt. Gov. were told over the weekend that the state was going to get nailed Sunday night by a major snowstorm, and both of them left town as fast as they could for sunny points south of there. Nice.
So what did Mayor Booker of Newark do in contrast?
Perhaps even more interesting was how Cory Booker spent his day. Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark and likely gubernatorial candidate in 2013, grabbed a shovel to help seniors and the disabled, delivered diapers to a housebound mother, helped dig out a stuck police car, and tended to a woman in labor who was waiting on an EMS team to arrive.
So the Republicans bolt town and leave the Democrats to do the responsible governing part of the Governor's job when a mess comes barreling down the pike, and they come through admirably. Meanwhile, Gov. Christie might be back by the end of the week from Disney World and the important things: gym, tan, laundry.
Hey, governing is freakin' hard.
EPIC FAIL.
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Why would you think that Mr Olympia, Chris Christie, would be going to the gym?
Vending machine? Free wi-fi? I dunno.
Well, you know, it's like this. They had to get all of the important people out of New Jersey so that it would still have a government after the blizzard hit. Our benevolent Republican rulers must have left orders behind as we all know that the Democrats are physically incapable of governing, the poor dears. That's why we need Republicans in power, they're the only ones who can command during times of crisis, or any other time at that.
Besides, you know that those filthy dems snuck in eleventy thousand million billion to the deficit while executing acting on Gov. Christie's wise and profound orders.
Remember kids, the best generals and coaches give orders from their armchairs, through a television screen!
(Blogger still needs an edit function.)
Obama's LIBERAL WEATHER CONTROL MACHINE did this. That's why it skipped DC.
Better than the HOMO RAYS that are currently infecting our noble heterosexuals serving in the military.
Bah, they're obsolete anyways. Obama's EVIL SCIENCE CLONE ARMY will replace any troopers fleeing TEH GEIGH, just as soon as the final batches of the NATIONAL BLACK HELICOPTER AIRMOBILE FEMA POLICE are decanted.
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