The unmitigated joy of many including me in this whole Christie business is quite fascinating:

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19. They're the ones who really make me steamed. But it was very revealing listening to Barbara Buono

on Chris Hayes' show this evening. She recalled calling some of them attempting to generate donations for her campaign and was told repeatedly that they didn't dare risk the wrath of christie - wouldn't dare give her more than the under-the-radar $300 - because "this guy likes to hurt people." WTF kind of way is THAT to run a state? I remember reading a quote referring to bush/cheney and the iron-fisted way they ran things - and how much they appreciated intimidating their opposition. And I think it was dick cheney who appreciated a policy dating back to Roman times or some such (maybe it was Caligula or somebody like that?) and the key quote was - "let them hate, as long as they fear." Fear is a formidable weapon, and too many bad guys know and appreciate - AND use it.

I guess this was christie's thing, too. And yeah, it can gain you "allies," but they're paper thin, and they resent how ham-handed you've been to them, and they don't forget easily.