Christie: Obama's just a 'bystander' (Politico)

Gov. Chris Christie on Monday tore into President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the supercommittee?s failure to reach an agreement on debt reduction last week, asking the president, ?What the hell are we paying you for??

Calling Obama ?a bystander in the Oval Office,? the outspoken New Jersey governor said the White House spent the weekend tossing out a whole lot of ?spin? about the supercommittee?s inability to come to an agreement before the Nov. 23 deadline.

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?I was angry this weekend, listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure of the supercommittee, and that the president knew it was doomed for failure, so he didn?t get involved. Well then what the hell are we paying you for?? Christie said during a press conference in Camden, N.J. ?It?s doomed for failure so I?m not getting involved? Well, what have you been doing, exactly??

Even though he said both parties deserve blame for talking at each other instead of talking with each other, Christie ultimately maintained that the buck stops with the nation?s highest in command and pointed to his own governance in the Garden State as a model for effective leadership.

?In New Jersey, the reason [problems got solved] is because I called people into the room and said we?re going to solve this problem and I had people of good will on the other side who said they believed it was their obligation, regardless of party, to get done things like pension and benefit reform,? the governor said, adding, ?Why the president of the United States refuses to do this is astonishing to me.?

If Obama doesn?t get his act together, he may as well go back to the Senate, Christie suggested.

?If he wanted to run for Senate again and just be 1 of a 100, I?m sure he could have gotten reelected over and over again in Illinois,? he said. ?He?s the one in Washington and he?s got to get something done here. And it?s not good enough just to say, ?Well, I?ll get it done after the election.??

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