Brian Greenspun, editor of the very liberal Las Vegas Sun "newspaper". He hates all things conservative as well as conservatives. (BTW, he is huge coward for blocking me from their web site)
So, his editorial today makes me scratch my balding head:
“In people we trust.”It has taken me a significant part of my life to understand why that phrase does not adorn the United States’ currency or, for that matter, the important institutions of any government on this planet. People feel comfortable in the United States trusting in God. But trusting in people? Not so much....
That is why I took such heart in New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s press conference Thursday in which he tried to deal with the debacle surrounding his version of the bridge to nowhere. In this case, it was a bridge to somewhere important — Manhattan, during rush hour — from a place that was equally important — Fort Lee, N.J., when workers were on their way home.
The George Washington Bridge is probably the busiest bridge in the world. Taking people from Fort Lee in the morning onto one of the most crowded and productive islands on the planet is its main function, along with getting those same people home at the end of the day....
And then they learned why. It was political retribution against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee who didn’t endorse Christie’s re-election effort. So the man so many people say is a bully was apparently caught bullying a political opponent without regard for the thousands of New Jersey and New York residents who paid a ridiculous price because they were on the bridge going nowhere.
That was not good for the man who would be president of the United States. Especially when damning emails were released last week that linked the governor’s office directly to the closing of that bridge.
That is why Christie stood up to face a media grilling for almost two hours Thursday, during which questions were asked dozens of ways probing his knowledge, involvement and culpability in such a stupid act of political retribution.
I watched that press conference. I saw the governor face those difficult questions, and I listened to him answer them in a most direct and apparently honest fashion that was, well, refreshing. I say that because for far too long we have conditioned our politicians to answer difficult questions in the most obtuse and unsatisfying ways possible. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/jan/12/christies-response-may-help-build-trust-our-politi/
So, when a liberal is defending a Republican, albeit, a RINO, you have to wonder what their motive is. Did Greenspun mix up his old age medicine again?
But whatever it is, it has to be like this from Ghostbusters:
Politicians Lie
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