No one messes with Sheriff Joe, you know. Because it’s not nice to mess with retarded people (no offense to the actually mentally handicapped). Remember, this is the guy President Obama put in charge of running the stimulus efforts.

That new tunnel? The one NJ Transit has been touting for years? That the Federal Transit Administration made a huge commitment to on Monday?

It’s for cars.

Or so Vice President Biden apparently thinks.

Biden had just finished telling reporters on a conference call Monday that federal stimulus money might have gone out slower in the past few months than some people liked because, “We don’t end up with any major glitches.” …

“Look, this is designed, this totally new tunnel, is designed to provide for automobile traffic,” Biden said. “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.”

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.

Such a promising sign that the people in charge of spending $800 billion of our hard-earned money have absolutely no clue as to the projects the money will fund. We have morons in charge of spending money our great-grandchildren will have to work to pay off.