Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Fallon sing Chris Christie traffic jam song

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They took to the stage dressed in "Born in the U.S.A." ensembles, wearing sleeveless denim button-downs, aviator sunglasses and red bandanas.

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Fallon sang about none other than Gov. Chris Christie.

The song, called "Governor Chris Christie's Fort Lee, New Jersey Traffic Jam," riffed on the George Washington Bridge scandal involving Christie's staff and lane closures to the bridge in Fort Lee.

Set to the tune of "Born to Run," the song included lyrics like, "They shut down the tollbooths of glory 'cause we didn't endorse Chris Christie." Fallon imitated Springsteen's voice before Springsteen joined in, pounding the chorus.

"Man, I've gotta take a leak, but I can't," he sang. "I'm stuck in Governor Chris Christie's Fort Lee, New Jersey traffic jaaaaam."

"The press conference went on and on," the song continued, referencing Christie's recent "Bridgegate" apolology."It was longer than one of my own damn shows," Springsteen lamented.

 At one point, the duo addressed Christie: "You're killing the working man/who's stuck in Governor Christie's Fort Lee, New Jersey traffic jam."

"I gotta take a leak," Springsteen cried, towards the end of the performance. "I really gotta take a leak."

Springsteen and the E Street Band were scheduled guests on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," to promote their new album "High Hopes." Fallon opened his show monologue with a few jabs at Christie.

Over the years, Springsteen and Fallon have joined forces for two other song segments. The late-night host, known for his prowess in mimicking musicians, as seen on "Saturday Night Live," has traditionally portrayed Neil Young in jamming with The Boss on some unlikely songs — Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" and LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It."

While Fallon donned Young's hat and harmonica for the songs, Springsteen has dressed as ... himself ... in different period outfits. First, a cap meant to emulate his "Born to Run" look, then the "Born in the U.S.A." denim.

Christie's Springsteen fandom has been widely documented. As of 2012, he said he had been to 129 Springsteen concerts. He even tweeted his top 10 Springsteen songs. The No. 1 track: "Thunder Road."

Also that year, Gov. Christie appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and sang a duet of "Thunder Road" with the talk show host. ( In 2013, the governor also "slow-jammed the news" with Fallon to talk about the state's special senate election.) At his inaugural gala in 2010, Christie got up on stage, bopping his head as he cracked into "Glory Days," "Badlands" and "Born to Run."

But it was Christie who trumped Springsteen and other New Jersey figures to star in a "Stronger than the Storm" state tourism commercial, according to a report from Politico. The very same ad that's now under scrutiny.

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Christie's broken promise on pensions: by Tom Moran

on January 15, 2014 

Gov. Chris Christie caused Democratic heads to explode Tuesday when he suggested that the state should scale back payments into the pension funds.

It was a vague passage near the end of hisspeech, but this much is clear: Christie opened the door to breaking the fundamental promise behind the 2010 pension reform, still his landmark achievement.

The pension funds were in awful shape when Christie swore his oath in 2010, thanks mostly to a string of Democratic and Republican governors failing to make payments required to keep the funds healthy. So Christie and Senate President Steve Sweeney struck a grand bargain: We will reduce benefits to workers, and require both workers and the state to contribute more. We will balance these books.

The public workers did their part. They were required to make full payments immediately, and benefits were cut deeply. The worst of it was that current retirees lost their annual cost-of-living adjustments, in effect a small cut to their promised pensions each year.

Shorting the pension funds would put one of Christie's greatest achievements at risk.

That was rough stuff. But the grand bargain did at least require the state to make larger payments into the funds. Over a seven-year period, Christie promised, the state would ramp up to making its full payments.

Now the bill is coming due. The state is scheduled to invest $2.4 billion in the funds next year, a number that will climb to more than $5 billion by 2018.

That is a staggering amount of money in a budget that is today roughly $32 billion.

So Tuesday, the governor suggested punting on that obligation. It was vague, but his intention was clear. He noted that pension and debt costs will grow by a combined $1 billion next year.

"That's $1 billion we can't spend on education. That we can't invest in infrastructure improvement. That we can't use to put more cops on the street."

The lower payments would be accompanied by lower benefits for public workers. So naturally, their unions are going ballistic. And this time, Democrats say they will not yield. A deal is a deal.

With the din of Bridgegate sucking the oxygen out of everything in Trenton, this didn't get a lot of attention Tuesday. But just wait. This could easily be the biggest political fight of the year.

It's hard to imagine that Christie, in his weakened state, can pressure Democrats to yield on this.

But maybe that's not the point. Christie is probably thinking about 2016 again, and it can't hurt him on the primary trail to pick a fight with public worker union and Democrats. This could all be about scoring political points.

As for the merits of this, it is simply dastardly. The state's pension crisis arose not because workers got excessive benefits. They are in line with other states.

The problem is that Trenton shorted these funds, year after year. Is Christie suggesting we pick up those bad habits again, despite his promises? If so, he will be putting one of his greatest achievements at risk.