Put a fork in Chris Christie: He will never, ever be president after this bad month

The Black Knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" has nothing on Chris Christie. As MSNBC's Steve Kornacki pointed out, on last Saturday's edition of "Up With Steve Kornacki," the real Bridgegate question is not a legalistic black-and-white one — “Did Christie know in advance or didn't he?” The real Bridgegate question is a political one about the gray area, in which — according to multiple sources, as Kornacki laid out — Christie knew something was up, but actively worked in denial, and lied to the press. Here's the Star Ledger: Another Wall Street rating agency — Moody’s Investors Service — has downgraded New Jersey’s debt and is sounding the alarm about the state’s "lagging economic performance." On May 8, David Sirota broke a corruption story, “Christie officials gave millions in public funds to VC firm, despite 'pay to play' rules,” which implicates Charles Baker, the establishment GOP candidate for governor in Massachusetts, as a $10,000 campaign donor, along with Christie's administration, which “has committed $15 million to the firm and currently has $8.3 million of pension money in the firm” which would generate “more than $200,000 a year in compensation” for Baker's firm, according to the terms of the original proposal. But since it's not a scandal involving local governments, the Port Authority or Sandy relief, it's actually breaking new ground in Christie Scandal-Land — and that's saying something.