THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

The Outlaw Jersey Whale, Chris Christie is all for new train tunnels under the Hudson River. In a stunning display of hypocritical chutzpah, he promises to seek "a more equitable" spending proposal.

In a radio interview that will be broadcast this weekend, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey made clear his reasoning for blocking the construction of a new tunnel and other infrastructure in 2010 that was intended to increase passenger service capacity between his state and Manhattan. He said it was a regional project that would have left New Jersey taxpayers to bear the brunt of its cost.

The governor, a Republican candidate for president, added that if he were to make it to the White House, he would push for an equitable solution.

“If I am president of the United States, I call a meeting between the president, my secretary of transportation, the governor of New York and the governor of New Jersey and say, ‘Listen, if we are all in this even Steven, if we are all going to put in an equal share, then let’s go build these tunnels under the Hudson River,’ ” Mr. Christie said in an interview with the radio talk show host Larry Kudlow, which will be broadcast on Saturday on WABC-AM.

“Then, everyone has an incentive to have the project run right, to run efficiently because everybody is on the hook,” Mr. Christie added.

The governor’s comments — and his hypothetical phrasing — has attracted the attention of his critics, who say his statements emphasize how little he has done to help improve transportation.

“This is not a hypothetical issue, this is a real issue, and he could be doing something about it,” said Martin Robins, the founding director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, who was the director of the tunnel project during the mid-1990s. “The question is, what has he done, what will he do in the next 18 months as the governor of New Jersey?”

Obviously the OJ Whale needs some promise of success to divert from the failure of his investment of tunnel funds in an Atlantic City casino, now closed and a yooge mall which has never opened. One has to admit that the scale of the fail of The Outlaw Jersey Whale is equal to his own immensity.