Chris Christie's not-so-terrible day

Friday was a bad day for Chris Christie.
But it could have been a whole lot worse.
The indictments of two former Christie allies in connection to their involvement in the Bridgegate scandal, and a guilty plea from a third, cast a harsh, unflattering light on the New Jersey governor. They rose troubling questions about his administration, and about whether Christie had propagated an environment in which political retaliation wasn’t just tolerated, but was standard operating procedure.
But, as a series of