February 2012 Porker of the Month: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)
Porker of the Month

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) February 2012 Porker of the Month for remarking that President Obama's fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget prematurely "turn[s] off the spigot completely." This comment is entirely disassociated with reality as President Obama's budget projects deficits above $500 billion each year through FY 2022. CAGW President Tom Schatz commented, "Despite the petering out of 2009 stimulus funds, which were pedaled as utterly essential to job growth, the economy sputters and unemployment lingers at record highs...On behalf of taxpayers, we at CAGW would like to suggest that Rep. Cleaver and his congressional allies could use a good round of reality-based, behavior modification therapy.” For comments that border on delusional and claiming that President Obama’s debt-expanding, spending-heavy 2013 budget proposal amounts to turning off the spending spigot and killing America’s economic recovery, Rep. Cleaver is the February, 2012 Porker of the Month. Read more about the Porker of the Month.

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