AT THE END OF THE DAY

The George Washington Bridge scandal should finally teach Christie and many other conservatives the ultimate lesson. No amount of pandering and cool gestures would convince the liberal media and the large majority of the democrats not to go for the jugular when it comes down to scandals (phony or genuine). It is still early to predict how the future of the governor will be affected, but for now, he and his staff are forced to waste endless hours quarterbacking his defense rather than doing what we the people pay them to do. 

Regardless of Christie's personal involvement in the lane closure nobody can deny there was abuse of power. With or without his approval a bureaucrat had the temerity of affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of fellow Americans just because he or she did not like an unsympathetic elected official. Many have wondered all these days how someone can risk so much for so little and the answer is obvious: because usually politicians and their staff can get away with this kind of mischief. The tragedy is not how many get caught, but that most of the times they go unreported and unpunished. Bipartisanship is not only wise but necessary to move the nation forward, bowing too low instead could not only be useless but counter productive and may eventually end up backfiring; your own party will usually take it as treason while your opponents are likely to read weakness into it. No matter how charming you try to be, at the end of the day they will always want a piece of your ass when you're down and out.