American's Governor, Chris Christie

If you're privy to the inner-working of any organization, you can see disarray even in the most well-run enterprises. It's amazing, isn't it, that so-called reporters who cover the hugely inefficient and incompetent public sector on a daily basis still believe in an intrusive government bureaucracy. Chris Christie, the new Republican governor of New Jersey, is serious about thwarting the out-of-control tax and spend agenda of the Democrats in his state, and among other things is at loggerheads with the greedy bosses of the state teacher's union. Here he "schools" a clueless reporter about the definition of "confrontational":

Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'