Corzine's toll road scheme is on life support.

Corzine's toll road scheme is all but dead. With Republicans solidly against it, and prominent Democrats either against it outright or signaling that it needs to be modified, it is all but over.

Blue Jersey's Juan Melli says there is a lack of will in the legislature to make the reforms needed to restore fiscal integrity to NJ government, and that a Constitutional Convention is necessary. Juan may be right, but is there enough will or fear on the part of the legislature to allow a Constitution Convention? Previous proposals for a convention would have limited the scope of the convention's authority such that any reforms would have been meaningless.

Corzine, who said he didn't get into public service to be a scrooge or a number cruncher needs to realize that he must be just that to deal with Santa's credit card balance racked up over the last decade. He may want to be Santa, but Whitman and McGreevey already played those parts. It's time to pay the bills without refinancing the house.

Corzine's Plan B needs to reduce the size(not the growth, but the size) of state government and break the unions' choke hold on the people of the State of New Jersey. If he has heard anything at all from the people at the road show, he should know that the public will support him if he makes a radical change in direction and that the pigs who have lived in Trenton all these years will squeal but will come around and support a radical reduction in the size of government rather than face slaughter.

If Corzine really wants to make historic changes to New Jersey, he needs to follow a Mike Bloomberg model of fiscal integrity, not a Carla Katz or Goldman Sachs model of expanding government and debt.

Pigs will fly if he does this.