Last Call For The Wheels Coming Off The Christiemobile

The only person in New Jersey who had a worse weekend than Payton Manning was Chris Christie.  His camp's response to Friday's accusations from former aide David Wildstein that evidence exists that Gov. Christie knew about the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge and lied about it at his January 15th press conference was so childish as to all but prove he's guilty as hell.  Here's Saturday's response, in part, sent to media outlets:

Josh Marshall sums it up.

Look at this passage. 

It's genuinely shocking that a sitting governor and presidential aspirant finds himself or his key defenders writing a sentence like this: "He was publicly accused by his high school social studies teacher of deceptive behavior." 

I mean, is that a joke? Or, he's someone who "made moves that were not productive"? 

Seriously, who wrote this?

"Smacks of desperation" doesn't even begin to describe the Christie camp at this point.  These guys are coming apart at the seams.   When you're reduced to not only attacking the messenger (and one who was a former trusted aide) but attacking them in such a ridiculous fashion, you've lost.

Hell, even Chuck Todd has figured it out.

After the last 72 hours of new developments in the scandals hitting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration, the political story here is no longer about whether Christie can survive to be a top presidential contender in 2016. Rather, it’s about whether he’ll be able to hold on to his governorship. For starters, former Christie Port Authority aide David Wildstein is now saying -- through his lawyer -- that “evidence exists” that Christie had knowledge of the lane closings in Fort Lee, NJ. Given that Wildstein appears eager to cooperate with investigators and tell his own story, who else follows suit? Former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly? Anyone else? It’s looking like it will be every man and woman for him/herself. (Wildstein didn’t produce any evidence, but he’s clearly in survival mode for himself. And that has to have the Christie folks in a mini panic, because who else could break?)

The comedy of errors will only continue, right up until Christie is forced out of office.  Oh, and things got worse this weekend when yet another Christie aide resigned from his office.

A Chris Christie aide who was subpoenaed in a growing New Jersey traffic scandal resigned Friday, the aide’s lawyer confirmed to POLITICO.

Christina Renna becomes the second person to leave the Republican governor’s office since the scandal escalated in January. But she did not say the scandal, which has threatened Christie’s potential presidential ambitions, was the reason for her departure.

Sure, the scandal has nothing to do with it.  And I have a bridge to sell you.

Christie may yet survive, but if this is an example of the thought processes his advisers are using, he's got longer odds than Manning and the Broncos did down 4 touchdowns plus in the 4th quarter last night.