It's amazing how one day can change a politician’s stance on a particular issue. Heck, just ask Mitt Romney — a man on the verge of having his very own flip-flop sandal.
Chris Christie, whose forceful anti anti-Muslim histrionics last week inspired an outpouring of positivity among his most ardent detractors, myself included. But that adulation may prove to be an anomaly (at least for now) after considering Christie's mealy-mouthed equivocations on the proposed Port Authority toll hike.
New Jersey's commuters reached a level of dyspeptic outrage reminiscent of Howard Beale from the groundbreaking 70s film “Network” after learning The Port Authority was seeking a massive $1 billion toll and train fare hike. Among the hike includes measures to raise the E-Z Pass tolls for cars from $6 to $10 round-trip for off-peak travel and from $8 to $12 in peak hours, and a cash toll surcharge of $3 to increase the cash rate from $8 to $15 in 2011 for the 25 percent of toll-payers who still use the cash system. Sure, and should us already financially-ruined commuters sweeten the deal by bending over and allowing Port Authority workers to literally stick to us in the rear?
Initially, Chris Christie expressed outrage at the proposed plan.
“I said, ‘You’re kidding, right?’ and they said ‘no,’” Christie said when asked for his reaction when he got the call from the Port Authority. “This is, unfortunately, a testimony to the mismanagement of the Port
for years. We shouldn’t have to be in this kind of situation.”
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