Chris Christie: We Like Our Elected Officials To Be Stronger Than Their Alotted Powers

Pining for LBJ, we got Christie. "Christie has been a beneficiary of LBJ nostalgia. He's a tough Republican governor in a blue state facing a Democratic legislature. He yells at people who oppose him. He swaggers across the national stage...We like our elected leaders to be stronger than the formal powers we give them. So they are tempted to exert power through informal means that we don't always approve of when they're exposed. The alternative is a disappointed electorate -- and more LBJ nostalgia." Ezra Klein in Bloomberg.