Garrett nominates budget boondoggles

Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, joined several Republican colleagues earlier this week in calling on Democrats to slash spending from appropriations bills, including money for bike paths, cultural programs and printing the Congressional Record.

"There is a simple solution that puts the family budget first and forces the Democrats to face their addiction to tax-and-spend. That is: cut wasteful spending," Garrett said in a news release.

At a news conference, Garrett and his colleagues released a list of nominees for the "Budget Boondoggle award" to highlight the issue.

Comments

[Nathan]

yeah, Garrett. It's all Democrats' fault.

I have three words for you: Bridge to Nowhere.

[Michael Fremer]

all of a sudden the GOP is for fiscal conservatism? I guess it's only when they're in the minority. Otherwise it's full spending ahead!

I'm not surprised that Scott Garrett considers The Kennedy Center,
the National Symphony Orchestra and bike paths "boondoggles," while
happy to issue blank checks to the Bush administration to continue
the war in Iraq. If Garrett really wanted to save some money, he'd
quit sending his constituents full color brochures full of baldfaced partisan lies
at taxpayer expense.

The last one I got from him included the claim that a "non-partisan"
think tank study estimates that Democrats plan on raising taxes more
than 4000 dollars for the average family. I poked around the Internet
and found the "study" on the Heritage Foundation's website. "Non
partisan?" HA HA. The "study" was one of those lurid right wing "what
if" fantasies similar to "Hillary's going to force socialized
medicine down our throats," grounded in zero reality and
using ginned up deceptive statistics.

Yet Garrett and his staff, which includes some of the most
pathetically misinformed and deluded young people with whom I have
ever spoken, sent it around to his constituents at our expense.

He should be telling us how he voted on the bills before him between
his last communication and this one, and why. PERIOD. Instead he
sends campaign fodder and I'm paying for it. I'll pay gladly for the
bike path and the symphony and The Kennedy Center (no doubt if it was
the Reagan Center, he'd back off), but spare me Scott's fertilizer.

Scott Garrett is the most straightjacketed, ideologically driven
robot who's ever (un)represented me anywhere. People in Bergen County
mindlessly pull the G.O.P. lever. As for Sussex county voters, no comment except how do they manage to get upright to pull the voting lever? JUST A JOKE, right Rush?

I used to tell people if the G.O.P.
nominated a stump for Congress it would win in our district. In
Garrett they did, and it did.