More in the continuing saga: Gov. Christie selects law firm to challenge $271M ARC tunnel tab

So New Jersey taxpayers, already living with Chris Christie's drastic cuts to everything imaginable (and some things that, frankly, were not imaginable but are now under Christie) -- yet still increasing taxes, still increasing Christie administration borrowing, as well as blatant, unnecessary, waste in the form of hundreds of millions in funding Christie lost NJ, and $5.7 billion lost in Transportation Department and Port Authority funding to build the ARC tunnel, New Jersey taxpayers are now footing the legal bill for an outside law firm to save face for Christie in his latest super-human feat of stupidity.

Didn't this guy bother to check the legal repercussions of canceling the ARC tunnel before canceling it? Wouldn't that have been much less expensive than litigating after the fact? Isn't that what a real leader would have done? CHECK FIRST?

But Christie had an ulterior motive. He just happened to announce the final ARC tunnel cancellation on the very same day Bret Schundler testified before the NJ Senate hearings on the Race to the Top debacle and scandal.

You've just got to read the entire article below to see if you can believe it for yourself. Christie is accusing another agency of the federal government for his own failures, as he tried to do in Race to the Top, until he was proved to be, as he will be in this instance as well, completely responsible for his own saga of continuing, expensive, inexcusable errors. And the taxpayers of New Jersey are once again paying for Christie's errors and their own error in electing this buffoon.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/gov_christie_selects_law_firm.html

Gov. Christie selects law firm to challenge $271M ARC tunnel tab
Published: Thursday, December 02, 2010, 7:25 PM Updated: Friday, December 03, 2010, 8:38 AM

"TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie agreed today to retain an influential legal and lobbying firm to challenge the $271 million bill New Jersey received from the federal government for work done on the canceled multibillion-dollar Hudson River train tunnel."

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""It’s not surprising that the same federal transit agency that had no clear way to pay for cost overruns of a project already hurt by poor planning and inequitable cost sharing is relying on bureaucratic power plays to wring even more money from New Jerseyans," Christie said in a statement."

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"Christie authorized NJ Transit to retain Washington, D.C. law firm Patton Boggs at a rate of $485 an hour. Patton Boggs doubles as a law practice and one of the most influential lobbying shops on Capitol Hill and includes former U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater."