they said, oh, well, if we don t do this, it will never be built. you just saw, they said it was pure hokum. a couple of months later, it s being built. chris christie is showing other politicians that you can walk away from the table and say, we re not going to do it. we re not going to waste. as a negotiating tactic, which we we said we believed it was months ago. and good things can come of it. he saved his state $13 billion. chris christie called their bluff, joe. the reason he won was because he was willing to walk away, walk away and have no tunnel. if it meant a risk to his state. and he s going to get his tunnel and he s going to save his money. that s what tough leadership can do. everybody in new jersey,
future. but the reality is that this project, the tunnel was on time, on budget, when it was canceled. and it was canceled supposedly over the specter of the potential for cost overruns, which the secretary of transportation offered alternatives to mitigate to. let s not revisit the past. of course not. chris christie said amtrak can build this. right. and they said, no, that will never happen. and now it s happening. senator frank lautenburg made adjustments to address concerns do we have the star ledger ? do we have chris let s read the star ledger editorial about when they said this would never happen. here y ha, i have it here. here it is. this is fascinating. okay. what s plan b ? yesterday, the governor suggested that amtrak might build a tunnel instead and that new jersey could contribute. that s complete hokum.
budget. health control. let her talk, eliot. you re framing the argument in a crazy way saying they are trying to protect the rich with tax cuts. do you not understand when you heavily tax corporations that this ends up where you have higher unemployment than the unemployment your economics is worse than voodoo economics. it s basic economics 101. i m not talking about answer this question. this is basic. answer this question. where will you cut $1 trillion every year from the budget to fund tax cut extensions? any excessive egregious spending that is unrelated to the enumerated powers the government has. that s gibberish. means nothing. that s not gibberish. do you not know what government is allowed to do according to the constitution? hoax and hokum from the tea party. in the spirit of the show i would like to lock these two together to make them sort it out and find common ground.