Gov. Christie represents heart n' soul of Republican Party

Gov. Chris Christie may not be loved by the Evangelical Christian zealot wing of the Republican Party, but the Wolves of Wall Street adore him. To them he's Mitt Romney with fangs, someone who will gleefully do their bidding to continue the funneling of middle class wealth up to the super rich without a tinge of remorse. Last weekend Chri...stie was vacuuming cash for regressive GOP Florida governor Rick Scott at fundraisers organized by billionaire Home Depot founder Ken Langone and Florida sugar magnate Jose Pepe Funjul, Jr. Scott governs one of the 25 states, mostly controlled by Republicans, who have turned down federally funded Medicaid expansion for three years, effectively shutting five million low income folks out of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Longone is one of numerous billionaire and near billionaire fat cats backing Christie's presidential bid. Fossil fuel mega billionaires the Koch brothers; hedge fund kings Stanley Druckenmiller, Ken Griffin, Charles Schwab and Steve Schwarzman; former AIG titan Hank Greenberg, former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack and former GE CEO and infamous job cutter Jack Welsh, are also on board with an inexhaustible war chest to restore the Presidency to the upper one tenth of one percent, with cutthroat Christie in charge. David Koch says he's inspired by Christie and calls him a "true political hero." Of course, David Koch would never by tied up by a Christie revenge-linked traffic jam as he can hop over any Christie malfeasance in his private helicopter.

Christie has been brilliantly packaged by himself and his billionaire backers as a blunt, no nonsense regular guy who's a man of the people. That phony façade has been shredded, first by the YouTube montage of Christie bullying little people like teachers simply asking fair questions about cuts to educational funding, and now by a cascade of thuggish scandals that have stripped the would be presidential emperor to his drawers.

Brothers Koch, Home Depot founder Langone and the rest of the plutocrats destroying the middle class will need to find a new front man to swing their wrecking ball. Their plan was to have Chris Christie exit the governor's mansion early to wield it. Christie may still leave the mansion early, but more likely to be carrying a ball and chain instead.