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Gov. Chris Christie tore into President Obama in the aftermath of the supercommittee’s failure to reach an agreement, asking, “What the hell are we paying you for?” and calling the President “a bystander in the Oval Office.”
“I was angry this weekend, listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure of the supercommittee, and that the President knew it was doomed for failure, so he didn’t get involved. Well then what the hell are we paying you for?” Christie said during a press conference in Camden.
Though he said both parties deserve blame, Gov. Christie maintained that the buck stops with the President and pointed to his own governance as a model for leadership.
“In New Jersey, the reason [problems got solved] is because I called people into the room and said we’re going to solve this problem and I had people of good will on the other side who said they believed it was their obligation, regardless of party, to get done things like pension and benefit reform,” the governor said, adding, “Why the president of the United States refuses to do this is astonishing to me.”
The President may as well go back to the Senate, Gov. Christie suggested.
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As I blogged last week, I suspect that the fix was in all along on the Super Committee failure, and that the leaders of both parties were complicit. http://wp.me/p1MQsU-8s