Chris Christie: Liar, Incompetent, or Both?

One more comment on Christie's presser; here's the S-L's Ginger Gibson tweeting (read backwards):

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Christie said people would criticize him if he said "let the ship sink" because he made a campaign promise.

3 hours ago 

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Christie "If this thing went solvent they would have a whole lot bigger complaints than they have now." #njpension

3 hours ago 

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Christie says the spirit of the statement is intact, "I was saying you're going to collect the pension you were promised."

3 hours ago 

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Christie said his promise not to change pension for law enforcement was based on his knowledge of the situation before he took office.

3 hours ago 

In case you're wondering what this is about: during the 2009 campaign, Christie sent a letter to the cops in October saying he wouldn't touch their pensions. He sent the same letter to the teachers - see the top of this blog for the money quote.

Now, he's saying he didn't know how bad things were; again, he sent the letter in October, 2009.

He didn't know how bad things were. Really?

Yeah, Chris, there was this little thing called the financial crisis; maybe you've heard of it? It started in 2008. Maybe you might have taken a second to think it would cause a few problems for the pension? For tax revenues?

If Chris Christie really didn't know he was going to face these kind of problems in 2009, he is the biggest fool on two feet. Jon Corzine talked about this all of the time; so much so, he actually was the first governor in two decades to put money into the pension funds:

So we're left with a choice; let's do it NJASK-style, shall we?

In, 2009, Governor Christie campaigned on a platform that he wouldn't change public employee pensions; this was AFTER the worst financial and economic crisis in 70 years. In 2011, he radically changed public employee pensions; he says he didn't know the fiscal situation would be this bad. Chris Christie is :

• A) a liar.
• B) a fool.
• C) all of the above.

Your teacher will lose her job if you get this wrong, so don't screw up!