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Governors elected as reformers are running up against the fact that their states have one out of money. the stimulus money disappeared. state budgets are hemorrhaging. republican governors are having to make tough to unpopular choices whether it's cutting education or money for schools or for healthcare or for roads and bridges for all of the things that the state government does. people wanted reform but they wanted somebody else's welfare program to be cut. >> yeah, medicare. >> and medicare. >> a choo choo train from tampa to orlando. does that hurt them or help them down there, do you thin...

Howard fineman and chris sill lizza is here. howard, let's take a look at this. in florida, the quinnipiac poll, the 51 to 43, now back in april of this year, he was 44 to 52 disapproval. what is going on in that state? >> well, i think what is going on there, chris, and what is going on in a lot of other places, is that republican governors elected as reformers are running up against the fact that their states have one out of money. the stimulus money disappeared. state budgets are hemorrhaging. republican governors are having to make tough to unpopular choices whether it's cutting education ...

Last night was all about unity. i didn't get my little ribbon. it was all about unity. i think we can all unite on one thing. america doesn't need any more choo-choo trains. enough. amtrak loses money on 41 of 44 routes. over $1 billion every year gone. you know why? nobody is riding it. making them faster isn't going to help. let me show you how the choo-choo train thing works. here is the tracks. look at this. fly california. isn't that nice? a carrie train. here in america, because that's what we're talking about. here in america, we have one set of tracks and a choo-choo train is carrying ...

So are the really fast bullet trains. oh. >> choo-choo! that is why we don't build them here. we have to lay another whole set of track for the fancy choo-choo train. also, if it doesn't go that way, then it would go this way. here is the choo-choo using the same tracks. bullet train going the same way. going really fast. not one not going fast. errrr! you see. i think we're going to take the jet airplane. because the choo-choo that goes fast and costs us money has to slow down. chug-chug-choo-choo. how do i know all this stuff?

Stuff is using this track. so are the really fast bullet trains. oh. >> choo-choo! that is why we don't build them here. we have to lay another whole set of track for the fancy choo-choo train. also, if it doesn't go that way, then it would go this way. here is the choo-choo using the same tracks. bullet train going the same way. going really fast. not one not going fast. errrr! you see. i think we're going to take the jet airplane. because the choo-choo that goes fast and costs us money has to slow down. chug-chug-choo-choo. how do i know all this stuff?