cauterize a wound that's really more serious than the bridgegate name than we're giving this and the idea that it's a crisis involving yellow cones on a highway. this was the use of government machinery to punish enemies. we think, that is, and he's saved himself and cauterized the wound if, but only if, he satisfied the first rule of crisis management 101 which is to get everything out all at once so you don't suffer a kind of water torture of drip, drip, drip. second in rule of crisis management is don't come out and read a lawyered statement. it was interesting that he came out and used honest thumping words, sad, embarrassed, humiliated, heartbroken, stupidity, and then third item on the agenda, you act, and he acted by firing someone quite important to him. the remaining question, and assuming that we've heard all the truth here, the remaining question will be is there something in the atmosphere of the governor's office that encouraged rogue behavior on the