back to alex -- suppose there's an accident, suppose somebody needed medical care. there's so many unknowns in a situation where people are waiting in line. you know, we've all been stuck there wishing we weren't stuck in traffic, and things go wrong in the cars that have to be dealt with. >> well, exactly, and that's why the explanation that's been offered to date, which is that the lanes were closed in some kind of traffic study, that's a bit of a tough sell on a bridge where it's hard to believe you would create more traffic than there is unnecessarily by choice. so, chris, i think that, you know, there are a lot of reasons why people resign from their jobs. i think that -- it behooves all of us to remember that whenever something goes wrong in government, we do tend to call for somebody's got to get fired, somebody's got to take the blame. so the best-case scenario, the most generous explanation for christie is that that's exactly what's happening here, that there was a mistake and somebody had to go. >> you know, these little things, i was looking back, governor, about political history. i know you love it, too. when tom dewey, the governor of