Sep 02 2008
Citizens Against Government Waste Release 2007 Ratings
Citizens Against Government Waste is a taxpayer watchdog group that ranks our Congressmen on their effectiveness of responsibly managing our tax dollars and not spending it on frivolous pork barrell spending. Overall, the current Congress sucks the toejam off a homeless man’s foot in this regard, but our representatives from both North and South Carolina were a little better than most. A rating of 100% is a taxpayer hero and a rating of 0% is a government elected thief stealing your money in order to pander to his constituents at reelection time. Our two states received no 100s or zeros, but came close on both ends.
Our four Senators did a pretty good job. Both Burr and DeMint received an honorable mention by the CAGW, each scoring a 97%. Graham came in with an 87% and Dole with 73%. Overall, these scores are acceptable. The House? Not so much….
The Republicans did decently for the most part, which surprised me because southern Republicans typically are some of the worst abusers for earmarking in Congress. The Democrats all performed abysmally and Henry Brown, Robin Hayes, and Walter Jones could use some work themselves.
