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Christie’s Damage Control Promises More Damage
Why would Christie be making enemies at his hour of maximum peril?
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has nurtured a reputation for belligerence, but he'll probably be looking to make friends with his State of the State speech today -- a little infrastructure project here, a few million in state funding there. What's to get upset about?
Yet at Christie's Jan. 9 news conference he seemed to be more carefully selecting his enemies. Why would Christie be making enemies at his hour of maximum peril? His performance gave us little sense of what actually transpired in the bizarre tale of traffic cones and comeuppance. But his two-hour rolling thunder revue in Trenton seemed to target two potential sources of counter-narratives.