Chris crossed

Echo and Narcissus. John William Waterhouse, 1903, via Wikipedia.

Governor Christoper Christie:

What does it make me ask about me? What does it make me ask about me? It makes me ask about me, what did I do—wrong—to have these folks think it was OK to lie to me.

Supposing just for the sake of argument that he isn't lying himself and that he really didn't order the Fort Lee lane closures (I'm sure he did), that's still pretty weird: the way it boils the sin of his employees and his creatures at the Port Authority down to lèse-majesté: not that they screwed up the lives of the citizens of Fort Lee (to the extent, apparently, of taking the life of one of them, the 92-year-old woman whose trip to the hospital was delayed). That doesn't bother him at all, but he wants to know why they wouldn't be too scared of him to tell him an untruth.

Wouldn't you want to ask why your staff thinks you want them to do stuff like punishing a local official for exercising his democratic right to not endorse a figure from an opposing party, and to punish specifically by punishing his constituents? I guess that's not a problem for Christie because he does.