Joins Who’s Who Of Washington Liberals To Demand Business As Usual
In a letter to President Barack Obama this week, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) once again joined with the liberal wing of the Democrat party in Washington to express his strong opposition to capping the federal government’s runaway spending, which has now driven our national debt to a record-high $14.3 trillion.
Menendez’s letter to President Obama, also signed by liberal Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), among others, clearly states that Menendez and his fellow Senate liberals “strongly oppose emerging proposals to arbitrarily cap total federal spending.”
Since repeatedly presenting himself as a fiscal hawk during his 2006 Senate campaign, Menendez’s big-spending record has consistently contradicted his election-cycle lip service to fiscal responsibility – with the latest example being that it has now been 772 days since Menendez and the Senate Democrats performed their most basic duty and passed any budget, much less a balanced budget.
But with his missive to President Obama, Menendez – who is the only sitting U.S. Senator currently under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice – is finally admitting what New Jersey families have come to know by his tax-and-spend record in Washington – that Menendez does not want to rein in Washington’s reckless spending and runaway debt, and in fact strongly opposes efforts to cap government spending at all.
“The most remarkable thing about Senator Menendez’s decision to come out against capping government spending is that he’s finally admitting he never had any intention of keeping his promise to be fiscally responsible in Washington,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.
Background Information:
MENENDEZ: “And Lastly The Enormous Debt That The President Is Generating By Virtue Of His Fiscal Policy Is The Debt That Their Children And Grandchildren Will Pay. I Think That That’s Immoral.” (ABC’s, “This Week,” 9/24/06)
MENENDEZ: “This President Has Borrowed More Than All The Other Presidents Of The United States Combined. So The Bottom Line, I Think The President Has A Credibility Problem When He Talks About Eliminating The Debt, Especially When The Offsets That Were Just Offered In The Tax Bill Are Not To Offset, For Example, Reconstruction Of Hurricane Katrina But To Offset More Tax Cuts.” (Fox News Channel’s, “Hannity & Colmes,” 1/31/06)
MENENDEZ: “What’s Irresponsible Is The Republican Attitude Of The Credit Card Mentality They Have For The Future.” (Herb Jackson, “Tax Policy Sharply Divides Menendez And Kean,” The [Bergen County, NJ] Record, 10/13/06)
