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It's getting crazier in government, lately. At GAO, the government’s organization to check efficiency, toilets exploded, and bathrooms were declared off limits. “Do not flush toilets,” employees were admonished. Add to that press reports disclosing that the Justice Department had a conference where they paid $15 for cupcakes …

No wonder there is hostility to government. While those crazinesses were happening, the media establishment was ruminating over whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie should be president in view of his vast “weightland,” to adapt T.S. Eliot's poem. Less analyzed was what he had to offer, and why he was considered the Republicans’ answer to Romney, Bachmann, Perry, et al., and, by the way, the one to solve our country’s problems.

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