New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday accused his GOP rivals of being part of the useless debate club in the Senate that isn’t getting anything done, and said Americans want a state executive like himself who knows how to get things done.
Christie lobbed his criticism after a debate between Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul about how to protect people’s privacy and yet maintain security. After listening, he said no one really cares about the subtle, hypothetical positions of the two senators.
“I want to talk to the audience at home for a second. If your eyes are glazed over like mine, this is what it’s like to be on the floor of the United States Senate,” Christie said. “I mean, endless debates about how many angels on the head of a pin for people who have never had to make a consequential decision in an executive position.”
Along with Sen. Ted Cruz, one-third of the debate slate Tuesday night was comprised of members of the U.S. Senate. But Christie said his experience as governor is much more valuable.
“The fact is, for seven years, I had to make these decisions after 9/11,” Christie said. “Make a decision about how to proceed forward with an investigation or how to pull it back, whether to use certain actionable intelligence or whether not to.”
“And yet they continue to debate about this bill and the subcommittee … nobody in America cares about that. What they care about is, are we going to have a president who actually knows what they’re doing to make these decisions,” he added.
“This is the difference between actually having been a federal prosecutor, actually doing something, and just spending your life as just one of 100 debating it,” Christie concluded. “Let’s talk about how we do this, not about which bill that each one of these guys likes more. The American people don’t care about that.”
