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Home Front: Politix
Biden goes off the rails again.
2009-06-09
Biden Mistakenly Claims New Hudson River Tunnel Project Will Accomodate Cars

Avid train rider and Vice President Joe Biden, on a conference call Monday with reporters, mistakenly claimed that the planned Hudson River tunnel between New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan would provide a much-anticipated route for automobiles.

Problem is, it's for trains.

The $8.7 billion tunnel is among the largest new projects to be funded in the Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus package.

"Look, this is designed, this totally new tunnel, is designed to provide for automobile traffic," Biden said, according to The Record of Bergen County. "It's something, as you know, up your way, that's been in the works and people have been clamoring for for a long time."

The Record, which asked Biden the tunnel-related question on the call, called the vice president out on the error. The north Jersey newspaper noted that the tunnel would accommodate more New Jersey Transit trains during peak hours -- cars are not part of the equation.

The mistake is notable given the former Delaware senator's well-documented affinity for trains and frequent Amtrak commutes between Washington and Wilmington during his Senate years. Biden also inadvertently irked public transit when he warned Americans in late April not to travel in "confined places" for fear of contracting swine flu
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#25  Joe Goober Biden
Posted by: Fester Flomose1536   2009-06-09 21:19  

#24  even better- he get's ridiculed by the Sierra Club: HT to Jammie Wearing Fool
For the record, the tunnel is for trains, and its completion would allow for more NJ Transit trains during peak hours and “one-seat” rides into Midtown Manhattan on lines serving Bergen and Passaic counties. Currently riders on those lines must switch trains.

Biden's office did not immediately respond to a request to clarify his comments.

Jeffrey Tittel, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club, renewed his criticism of the tunnel. Rather than go to Penn Station and connect with Amtrak and the Long Island Railroad, NJ Transit will build a new station built 180 feet below 34th Street, or, as he calls it, “Macy’s basement.”

“It’s going to be hard to get those cars up 180 feet of escalators,” Tittel said.
Posted by: Frank G   2009-06-09 20:39  

#23  :: shudder ::

Tent caterpillars creep me out.
Posted by: Seafarious   2009-06-09 18:48  

#22  Nits? With Crazy Uncle Joe it's more like tent caterpillars.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-06-09 18:35  

#21  Mike

If you think that is scary, look who is next to Biden
Posted by: Kelly   2009-06-09 18:21  

#20  I am soooo stealing that, mojo! :-D

Mojo wins the thread!
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-06-09 16:59  

#19  ...nit pick and humiliate our country's leaders.

Some nits pick themselves. And some grow up to be louses.
Posted by: mojo   2009-06-09 16:47  

#18  Biden is too stupid to even make fun of.
Posted by: GirlThursday   2009-06-09 16:11  

#17  :)LOL. This story and these posts lifted my spirits today. It's almost like Billy Carter got a little sophistication, went to law school, changed his name and became VP.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-06-09 15:22  

#16  They told me that if I voted for Sarah Palin we'd get an idiot just a heartbeat away from the presidency. I voted for her anyway--and look what happened!
Posted by: Mike   2009-06-09 13:56  

#15  Watch out Art of War because it looks like you and Percy are sending from the same IP address. Like he's right next to you, or...sumthin.
Posted by: tu3031   2009-06-09 13:43  

#14  I hear that the stimulus czar (Biden) is changing the specs on the tunnel so that every other train has to carry cars, just like the Chunnel.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2009-06-09 13:21  

#13  Don't forget that Slow Joe is much, much, smarter than you are. Just ask him.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-06-09 13:17  

#12  He's still less dangerous and less of a threat than his boss.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-06-09 12:58  

#11  GREAT PIC.....
Posted by: Jarong de Medici3580   2009-06-09 12:08  

#10  When the guy who's supposedly overseeing this stimulus thing doesn't seem to know what one of it's largest new projects is actually supposed to do, I wouldn't call pointing that out "nit picking".
Posted by: tu3031   2009-06-09 11:40  

#9  it's ok to demean the prez when he is a republican and ACTUALLY fighting the war on terror and not bowing to the enemy...but god forbid a repub to be critical of a dem -- who is a clown...so much for the opposition being patriotic..
i look forward to 2010 when this madness we have elected gets stopped
Posted by: Dan   2009-06-09 11:40  

#8  $8.7 billion? Who are they kidding? It would cost twice that.

And why are we paying to cram more commuters into Manhattan? Just build some office buildings in New Jersey.
Posted by: DoDo   2009-06-09 11:40  

#7  Biden's not only a clown but a serial plagiarist. Can't say anything about this bozo though...might affect the war on terror. You have got to be kidding!!!
Posted by: Art ofWar   2009-06-09 11:30  

#6  $8.7 billion doesn't buy what it used to. In 4 years it won't even buy a model railroad tunnel.
Posted by: ed   2009-06-09 11:09  

#5  Yeah? What did ya think of Cheney, Percy?
Posted by: tu3031   2009-06-09 11:06  

#4  But it was OK when you and yours did it to Bush, right Percy?
Posted by: Parabellum   2009-06-09 11:03  

#3  yes the best way to fight the war on terror---nit pick and humiliate our country's leaders. That'll show 'em
Posted by: Percy Churt9345   2009-06-09 10:57  

#2  What about boats, Joe? Can boats go through it?
Posted by: tu3031   2009-06-09 10:56  

#1  Biden goes off the railshis meds again.
There fixed.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2009-06-09 10:47  

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