This weekend while on television with Chris Wallace, Chris Christie offered his opinion on President Obama’s gun control measure. In a style that was very Trump-like, the Jersey Guv didn’t pull any punches.
Wallace: President Obama is expected to announce executive action on new gun controls this week to expand background checks, and also to bar more accused domestic abusers from being able to buy guns. Your reaction to that?
Christie: This President is a petulant child. Whenever he can’t get what he wants, because frankly, the American people have rejected his agenda by turning over the House and the Senate to republicans, going from 21 Republican governors when he came into office, now 31, now he wants to act as a king. The fact is if he wants to make changes to these laws, go to congress and convince congress they’re necessary, but this is going to be another illegal executive action which I’m sure will be rejected by the courts. When I become president, they will be stricken from executive action by executive action I will take.
Christie’s critique applies to the entire Democratic approach, which seems to be centered around selling the notion that liberal policy positions are too important to sell to Congress and require executive action.