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Laxman

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Wed Mar 2, 2016, 10:09 AM Mar 2016

Is It Karma Time For Kristie....... [View all]

watching the Gluttonous Governor on Donald Trump's stage playing handmaiden to one of the few characters in American politics that is even more loathsome than himself had a certain air of pathos to it. Not the defiant "Made it Ma! Top of the world!" defiance of Jimmy Cagney's character Codey Jarrett in White Heat that you might expect from a guy who made his rep as a bully who told his constituents to "sit down and shut up" or chased them down the boardwalk while holding an ice cream cone. Instead, his demise seems to be taking the path more akin to that of Orson Welles' corrupt police captain Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil, dying in a pool of sewage-his schemes gone awry.

Now as a man is like this or like that, according as he acts and according as he behaves, so will he be: a man of good acts will become good, a man of bad acts, bad. He becomes pure by pure deeds, bad by bad deeds. And here they say that a person consists of desires. And as is his desire, so is his will; and as is his will, so is his deed; and whatever deed he does, that he will reap. And here there is this verse: "To whatever object a man's own mind is attached, to that he goes strenuously together with his deed; and having obtained the end (the last results) of whatever deed he does here on earth, he returns again from that world (which is the temporary reward of his deed) to this world of action. So much for the man who desires."




"What goes around comes around" is something that I've come to believe that nice people say to themselves to ease the discomfort they feel every time they see bad people succeed. But watching Chris Christie stand there having to try to look admiringly at Donald Trump, while Trump insulted him about his jobs record in New Jersey. Seeing that pathetic "my God what have I done?" look on Christie's face. The guy who dreamed of being King reduced to the role of lackey. Maybe things DO have a way of evening out.

The arrogant bully who's been living the good life on the taxpayers dime. Taking lavish gifts from the likes of Sheldon Adelson, Jerry Jones and the King of Jordan. The guy who has used his public position and power to "squeeze the orange" and to crush his rivals or anyone else who might not leap to his call. The guy who yells at school teachers. The guy who called a Navy SEAL an idiot. The guy who tried to punish an entire town because their mayor didn't endorse him. Maybe there is indeed a price to be paid for all of that.

This is a person who wants to be famous and powerful. He wants to hob nob with the rich and famous. He wants to be Bruce Springsteen's BFF. But that look on his face last night just might say it all. Maybe finally he's realized that in the end he is only what former Newark Star-Ledger reporter Bob Braun wrote about him:

In the end, Chris Christie proved to be exactly what he was–a nobody. A nobody who lost a local Morris County election but who had a brother who could buy him a job he didn’t deserve and had no right to fill, the federal prosecutor’s position in New Jersey.


and being a nobody is probably about the most painful ending that Chris Christie's political career can have for him. In reality, he should resign as governor, just as six New Jersey Newspapers called for yesterday. He should face indictment and prosecution from the very same U.S. Attorney's Office he used for his political advancement. But we probably won't get that satisfaction. In the last act we may just have to be satisfied to watch him slink off to an ignominious and shameful oblivion. I suppose that might be enough. I just can't revel in his suffering, I'm not a vindictive rat bastard like he is. Yet there should be justice. Is this what justice looks like? We'll see.
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