Nov 11 2008
Spratt Floated as Possible White House Budget Director
John Spratt’s name is being floated for a post in the Obama administration that would take advantage of his economic expertise as chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Spratt is at the top of a list of three possible directors of the White House Office of Management and Budget, The Associated Press reported last week. The New York Times and other publications also have mentioned Spratt as a possible Obama appointee.
And when has Jack Spratt made any effort whatsoever to bring a balanced to the government during all of his years on the House Budget Committee? One thing is for certain, though, a Spratt appointment would put smiles on the eyes of House Republicans. Spratt’s district has been trending more and more Republican with each passing year. This would be a great pick up opportunity for the GOP.
John Spratt was actually one of the authors of the modern pay-go systems which helped to reduce our deficits to the lowest level of the past several decades. While he may not be a tax cut fundamentlist of the Tom Delay “it is your DUTY to take a tax cut in a time of war,” bent, he actually is a fiscal conservative of the school that many people subscribe of trying to balance budgets and lower deficits.