I love love love watching a Republican bully fry in his own grease.

Christie? A bully? Never! That picture of him shaking his finger and yelling at the female teacher while his wife smiled her approval had to have been photoshopped by those horrible Democrats, right?

I'm no fan of Christie. However the journal entry begins coincidentally with "Normally I prefer typing on a computer but maybe it's time to give journal writing a try." Seems pretty convenient to me.

@3: makes total sense to me. She just got a jolt and was feeling betrayed by a colleague she respected and had felt she had a good working relationship with. Her emotions were probably running pretty strong and she just needed to get them down on paper as a way of making sense of the episode. When I've been in that situation I seek out the reassurance of familiar pencil and paper - the last thing I want it the computer distracting me.

Many good politicians are bullies. Lyndon Johnson was a consummate bully; he got most of Hubert Humphrey's and Jack Kennedy's social programs through Congress because he knew Congress and bullied them. I think it matters who the politician cares about helping rather than how she/he manages it. So far I don't like Christie because he doesn't seem to care about anything I do, rather than because of his messy politics.

@6, I agree. I'm okay with a bully as long as they bully for the right reasons and in LBJ's case that was to get things done for the poor. But he also used it to perpetrate Vietnam so in his case it's a mixed bag.

In politics you don't get things done by being "nice" and you sure don't accomplish the really big changes by being "nice"

@6
Totally true. FDR was constantly making subtle threats to powerful people's power. It worked really well for him. He was also super available to allies, but to be an ally you had to be doing HIS plan.