Posted on 01/23/2011 2:58:18 AM PST by Scanian
Sen. Chuck Schumer last week lit into New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for pulling the plug on that $8.7 billion trans-Hudson rail tunnel.
“A terrible, terrible decision,” Schumer told a Crain’s breakfast.
Schumer being Schumer, of course, he sees in Christie’s decision the coming of a national apocalypse — a “turning point,” he said, that historians will one day look back on as the day when we “stopped looking toward the future.”
Hyperbole, thy name is Chuck Schumer.
Fortunately, Chris Christie is not one to be intimidated, even by so formidable a presence as Chuck Schumer’s — and, even more fortunately, he can give as good as he gets.
Back when the governor called a halt to the project, he cited the fact that its cost had already swelled to $11 billion and counting — with his state on the hook for $2.7 billion, plus 50% of any cost overruns.
That would hike Jersey’s liability to more than $5 billion — money the troubled Garden State simply doesn’t have.
In response to Schumer, Christie noted the difference between a governor and a senator. “Their job is easy,” he said of lawmakers like Schumer. “They get to sit in front of microphones and bloviate. I’ve got to balance budgets.”
Asking where the money would come from, Christie added: “If [Schumer] wants to offer me $5 billion, then maybe we can have a conversation.
“Until then,” said the governor, “he should mind his manners on the other side of the Hudson River.”
Ouch — but point very well taken.
Senators — especially Democratic senators — love to go on about huge projects and the jobs they’d create.
But when it comes to explaining how to pay for them, they grow silent.
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Fix your link, please!
Boy, that went right over your head, didn’t it?
Much better than I would have said it.
So what? Geeze, you’re stuck in a hole. You have absolutely no sense of humor, things fly right over your head, are you sure you are on the right board?
So what? Geeze, you’re stuck in a hole. You have absolutely no sense of humor, things fly right over your head, are you sure you are on the right board?
Christie 1, Schumer 0
Slam dunk
I lived in Mass. for 12 Years.
Doesn’t anyone remember BOSTON’S BIG DIG Fiasco.
Big fat Ted the swimmer was behind it.
It’s still going, Never finished.
Duh. Christie is not responsible for the federal budget, so if they want to give him money for this project, he will accept it.
Christie is looking out for New Jersey's interests.
What does that have to do with putting Schumer in his place? The guy is accomplishing great things, just because he doesn’t share what you think is important doesn’t mean he isn’t doing a great job. Grow up.
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