Who cares? He is from New Jersey...

Christie is in the wrong party. He should be a Democrat.

The first paragraph is misleading. Read the whole thing.

The bill was not voted on because of all the pork in it. It has nothing to do with the South not caring what happens to the Northeast. Boehner is from Ohio, for goodness sake.

I do think there is a sentiment in the entire country outside the East coast that assumes that nothing that comes out of the NE can be any good. Romney was denounced by many LDotters as a "blue blooded Northeast Brahmin" even though he was from Michigan and before that his family was from Utah and Mexico.

Anyone missing Dubya yet?

The more I see & hear from Christie, the less I like the guy. He gave a great speech at the convention. Since Sandy hit, it seems he´s morphed into a self-serving, petulant, and whiny sideshow. Hopefully, he´ll abandon any thoughts about 2016. But with his mammoth ego, it wouldn´t surprise me to see him jump ship and run as an Ind. or even a donkey.

9 billion is a LOT of relief. 60 B was absurdly out of line with so much pork Boehner had no choice. I hope Christie understands that.

It´s infuriating Christie can tarnish Republicans with Sandy screw ups, when it was Obeyme who has failed to remove red tape that was his election eve promise.

Katrina was bad. Sandy was worse but no one will ever think of it that way because of media bias.

As a "seasoned" politician, Christie could have helped himself and his PARTY by publicly denouncing the democrat pork that was holding up the vote on the relief bill. And showing concern for the waste and abuse that was slipped into the bill might have educated some of the low information voters.
He could have come out of this smelling like a rose. Instead, he smells like Secaucus used to smell in the 50s.

You can´t expect someone who is used to stuffing his mouth with pork to protest it in a little bill now can you?

Once again agree with #4.

As for Christie, once a loudmouthed bully always a loudmouthed bully.

He´s much more suited to the demonrat party.

Christie won because he wasn´t Corzine.

His re-election is not a sure thing. Thankfully.

Christie wants to be re-elected to the governorship .... and the only way to be elected to statewide office in the bluest of blue states as a republican is to act like a democrat.

The look on his face, and his subsequent reaction to the storm catastrophe, indicates he lost control of himself and the situation. In other words, he is acting like an hysteric, not a stable politician/leader that is necessary in bad times. i.e., think of Guiliani on 9/11. Christie might be very good at the governor level in a very liberal, corrupt state. But no higher political office.

Christie is very much like the guy he hugged in the aftermath of Sandy. All mouth, no real action. He was shifting the blame just like Zero does.
Other than bully others what has Christie really done for that state of NJ?

Please, #3, do not confuse Ohio with the "Northeast". Although Ohio may be in what is geographically the northeastern part of the U.S., historically it has long been considered the beginning of the Midwest. At one time, Ohio was part of the Northwest Territories.

We in Ohio have nothing to do with the anti-gun, anti-freedom, socialist states of the Northeast, except that we are bound together by a constitution they no longer seem to respect.

Christie won the governorship because he was running against the corrupt Corzine.

Christie lost my vote for 2016 when he invited Obama after Sandy which I firmly believe was payback to Romney for not selecting him as Veep.

Christie and Obama are very similar. They are both bullies! One is louder and less polished than the other.

Christie has just the type of that "in your face" personality that could easily allow him to jump parties. I guess we´ll need to stay tuned......

So someone built a rollercoaster out into the ocean, and a boardwalk along the ocean, and not too surprisingly, both got washed away.
And I am supposed to help pay for the replacement projects? Which will be done with federal money, thus requiring pay to be at ´prevailing rates´ which will be established by construction unions?
Perhaps 80-100 dollars per hour??
No thank you.

Christie is DEAD to me, I will stay home if he´s ever the R candidate for President.

#5 - Christie gave a great speech at the GOP Convention? He never even mentioned Romney once! It was all me, me, me. (Sound familiar?)

And #13, I live in NE Ohio, and you are right that it is definitely NOT in the northeast, but we did get slammed by Hurricane Sandy. I don´t know if any of that federal aid is supposed to come here (I doubt it).

For anyone to stay they will stay home rather than vote for ANY Republican - up to and including Bozo the Republican - wash your mouth out with soap!

Sorry 19 but I´m OFF the Rino Plantation.

I´ve voted R since my first vote (I´m 66) - no longer will they get my vote just because R behind name.

That attitude is what has given us what we have. They seem to think no matter what they do, we´ll pull the R lever.

Well, this old girl ain´t doing it no more. Had enough of two heads of same coin.