Would You Like To Supersize That Scandal?

   If the past few days of trending topics on the twitter tell us, Chris Christie will continue to be in the news for a while. I don’t think this scandal is going away anytime soon, and I say this because, as a Democrat from Illinois, there is no question that Christie is going to face criminal charges with this bridge spectacle that disrupted so many of his constituents’ lives.

   If Rod Blagojevich’s actions landed him in jail, how on earth is what occurred under the New Jersey Governor’s watch not going to end the same for him, or at least his deputy Chief of Staff?

Remember him? Maybe if you were in the market
for a Senate seat in Illinois back in '08.

    I will say this: Democrats need to pounce on this prey as quickly as possible, before Fox News has time to replenish Christie’s image. There is no question this man uses fear to get what he wants. And if he get his way in 2016, he’ll have kept up this tactic all the way to the nuclear codes.

    Remember how the media dissected Blago in late 2008/early 2009? Well, we need to take that strategy on Christie, because he deserves that same level of scrutiny. Of course, the two men were in completely different circumstances. One tried to sell a Senate seat, while the other is accused of abusing his power as a governor to shut down a massive bridge for four days.

     One of those days being on September 11^th. Did you know this George Washington Bridge connects New Jersey and New York? Yea, so can you imagine being stuck in your car on that backed-up bridge on the 12^th anniversary the towers fell? Justifiable paranoia at its finest.

     The bridge being shutdown directly affected the people of New Jersey and New York in so many ways. Whereas in Illinois, we were just embarrassed that we elected another narcissist who would be so slimy as to profit off of a US Senate Seat. We really should have known about Blago, though; after he left the Governor’s office, he decided to go on Donald Trump’s television show. What a sad mess. But he never caused civil damage to the daily commute of regular people who he’s supposed to represent.

"Ignore my bully complex for a second and focus
on the fact that I can take a picture with the president"

       As Americans, we really need to dismiss Governor Chris Christie as a serious candidate for president right away. We should never allow this sickening political activity to occur, for any of our elected officials. Should the news media become more and more outraged with every new finding in this investigation? Hell yeah. It is absolutely unacceptable for any elected official to abuse his or her constituents’ lives like that.

     I’m a landscape architecture major, and someday if I’m lucky enough to have a career in urban and regional planning, I know on a simple ethical basis that I would never be able to get away with something like this. I would be fired (or thrown in jail, depending on what I knew) if I chose to ignore an unnecessary traffic occurrence affecting my fellow citizens. This would be especially true if I had the authority to prevent it from continuing immediately.

      But this nightmare for the commuters went on for four days.

If you play by my rules, then we won't have any problems.
But piss me off, and you may find yourself stuck (in traffic).
Got that?

      Don’t let Chris Christie get away with this. This unfolding story must capture everyone’s attention the closer and closer we get to 2016. If anything, he could still run for president, but he will at least be so scarred by Fort Lee that it’ll be impossible for him to win the Republican primary. 

       Then we’ll once again have intellectual entertainment on the side as we watch Hillary duke it out with a real progressive for the Democratic nomination (aka the party that usually has the more appealing, less Duck Dynasty-like candidates).

Round Two: who will take on Hillary this time?
Because it sure as hell isn't going to be Christie.