Chris Christie joins everybody else on attacking Phil Murphy on Twitter

Like millions of other drivers, Chris Christie took to Twitter on Thursday to complain about his commute. 

And like many, many others, Christie, without irony for a man whose time as New Jersey governor was marred by scandal following a politically motivated traffic jam, blamed Gov. Phil Murphy.

Christie's jab Thursday afternoon followed his shot at Murphy on Wednesday at an annual conference in Atlantic City attended by thousands of state and local officials. Christie swiped at Murphy for failing to govern in a bipartisan fashion, he said.

On Thursday, it was Murphy's turn to take a shot at Christie at that same annual conference in his keynote address, a high point in the state's political calendar.  

“We are undoing, bit by bit, the poor decisions of the past that were made in the name of political ambition,” said Murphy, a Democrat, in an apparent reference to Christie's failed presidential run.

That shot, however, came just as the winter storm took its unexpected turn and came about an hour before schools, shops and businesses closed up and sent drivers onto increasingly slippery roads. In no time, New Jersey's routinely nightmarish commute became a frightening endurance test.

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Christie tweeted that his normal commute – about 40 minutes or so without traffic, twice that or more in rush hour – lasted over five hours on highways brought to a standstill by the snow. 

If anyone understands angry Jersey push back on the governor after a storm, it should be Christie.

In December 2010, a blizzard crushed New Jersey. Where was Christie? In Disney World with his family. Under attack, he tried to deflect blame by suggesting county road crews dropped the ball.

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Then came Hurricane Irene, Christie declared a state of emergency a day before the storm hit and famously demanded that lingering sun bathers in Asbury Park "get the hell off the beach." Superstorm Sandy hit the Jersey Shore, and he became the omnipresent leader in blue fleece. 

Then he ran for president. South Jersey flooded and Christie in New Hampshire had this to say: "I don't know what you expect me to do? You want me to go down there with a mop?"

Now a private citizen, all he had to do was take to Twitter.