SO YOU SAY SCANDALS LIKE THE IRS TARGETING CONSERVATIVE, FAST AND FURIOUS SELL OF AUTOMATIC WEAPONS TO DRUG CARTEL AND BLAME GUN BUSINESSES, BENGHAZI DEATH OF AMERICANS AND LIE THE VIDEO DID IT, OBAMASCARE YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE, PRETEND TO BACK AMERICAN INTEREST AGAINST AL QUEDA AND YET SUPPORT THE ENEMY AS OUR TROOPS DEATH INCREASES IN AFGHANISTAN, BLACK PANTHERS GET A FREE OUT OF PROSECUTION PASS FROM VOTING INTIMIDATION WITH NOTHING BUT A WHIMPER FROM THE DOJ–YET HERE WE ARE MR CHRISTIE’S CREWNUT STOPS A TRAFFIC LANE AND ALL STONES MUST GET TURNED OVER BY THE DOJ

In his long press conference in Trenton, Mr. Christie was properly contrite, saying he had been "lied to" by the senior aide he proceeded to fire. He also said he is withdrawing his support for his former campaign manager to run the state Republican Party because the man had shown "callous and indifferent" behavior toward the people inconvenienced by the traffic-lane closures. If Mr. Christie really didn't know about this cheap exercise in political payback, and nothing new emerges, the incident shouldn't interfere with the Governor's expected presidential run.

That doesn't mean Mr. Christie shouldn't learn from the experience. One lesson is that he's going to have to upgrade the quality of his advisers as he moves onto the national scene. The traffic-lane-as-vendetta ploy is so dumb and petty that anyone who would attempt it isn't ready for prime time. Never mind putting it in email.

Mitt Romney was supposed to be a crack manager, but he surrounded himself with campaign lightweights and he suffered for it. One of Mr. Christie's selling points for the White House will be that he is an executive who has run a sizable state, so the media will descend on Trenton even more than it did on Wasilla, Alaska, for Sarah Palin. Better to clean out the hack loyalists now.

Which brings us to the Obama Administration, which quickly leaked to the media that the U.S. Attorney is investigating the lane closures as a criminal matter. Well, that sure was fast, and nice of Eric Holder's Justice Department to show its typical discretion when investigating political opponents.

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