Chris Christie's Cynical New Venture: Bringing 'Civility' To Politics

I am not shocked that Chris Christie is the recipient of wingnut welfare. After all, he managed to serve two terms as Governor of New Jersey without doing anything good for the people of that good state, which is the Republican Way. He also managed to cause his employees to go to jail while escaping any accountability for his own actions, another plus for GOP money men.

But this venture is just so very cynical that it should be immediately aborted before it has a chance to take hold. The new venture is the Christie Institute of Public Policy, where Chris Christie will receive a healthy stipend to "bring civility to modern politics."

Let's review Chris's qualifications for this new civility initiative. At the top of this post, we have an appearance on CNN's State of the Union where he blithely said the national teachers' union deserved "a punch in the face."

Teachers were a favorite target for Christie. He told one teacher at a town hall, "I'm tired of you people!" and called public schools "failure factories." Here's another example of him bullying a teacher before tossing him out. How civil.

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