Gov. Chris Christie is a wonderfully primal New Jersey politician who embraces three truths: Transparency is for squares, bluster is your friend and fingerprints are a pain.

A host of circumstantial evidence, not to mention a mother lode of common sense, suggests that aides close to him shut several traffic ramps to the George Washington Bridge after the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee failed to see the wisdom in endorsing the Republican governor.

Legislators are investigating. To date, the governor’s childhood friend has resigned his position at the Port Authority, along with the governor’s top appointee there. When a legislator asked about a culture of fear, top officials fell into sheepish silence.

But no one sold out the governor. In fact, Mr. Christie all but did a public pirouette, joking that, oh yeah, he moved those traffic cones himself.