Republican governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is on vacation — he’s with his family in Disney World. And, it turns out, his lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, is also on vacation, somewhere outside of New Jersey. So who’s in charge of New Jersey? Senate president Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat.

One might think that, with the popular Republican governor out of town and with the reins handed to the Senate president, the Democrats might take the opportunity to show New Jerseyans that they can govern well. Instead, some Democrats are complaining that Christie abandoned them when they needed him most — to clean up a major snowstorm that hit the Northeast: