Who could possibly deserve that label?
President Obama? No.
Charles Shumer (D-NY)? Close, but no.
Al Franken (D-MN)? Not yet, anyway.
According to Dallas-Fort Worth’s ABC affiliate WFAA and Public Citizen’s Tom Smith, it’s none other than the recently re-elected junior Republicrat Senator from Texas, John Cornyn:
He’s now known as the U.S. Senate’s biggest spender on domestic travel, according to official travel records found in The Report of the Secretary of the Senate.
That’s right—to the tune of $152,766.63. In the first six months of the fiscal year. Granted, the left-populist watchdog group Public Citizen isn’t exactly the most politically conservative or even neutral organization, but I think they pretty much nailed this one. The numbers pretty well speak for themselves.
For comparison, über-parasite Chuck Shumer came in second at $144,014.22. Texas’ real fiscal conservative is Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who was only the eighth-biggest spender.
[Cornyn's] amount is more than any other senator. “His excuse is, ‘Well, it’s a big state,’” said Tom Smith, of the watchdog group Public Citizen. “I agree senator. It is a big state, and most big cities where he’s spending most of his time have real good airline service. He should be flying coach with the rest of us.”
But, Texas’ senior senator, fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, only spent $88,000 during the same time period. That’s a little more than half of Cornyn’s bill.
Plus, California’s two senators combined spent a little over $101,000 on travel, according to the same record.
Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Kit Bond (R-Mo.) all spent more than $100,000 on domestic travel for the first half of the fiscal year.
The remaining 95 senators spent less.
But at least we know it’s all well-spent, and in the public interest, right?
Wrong:
[Cornyn]’s biggest, and perhaps most questionable travel expense, was a retreat he took his staff on in February. For three days, the staff stayed in St. Michaels, Maryland, which is just outside D.C. It cost taxpayers more than $55,000.
That’s correct: fully one-third of his exorbitant travel expenditures went to a retreat for his over-worked, under-paid “poor widdle staff.”
“He claims to be a fiscal conservative,” Smith said. “This to me is the worst of the tax-and-spend liberals in Congress. He’s spending more money than New York senators are on travel. If that doesn’t put a ring of shame on John Cornyn’s face, I don’t know what does[.]“
Apparently, the cretinous parasite knows no shame. Still, though,
Cornyn can spend his travel budget however he wants and let voters decide if his trips are worth the price.
And please, Texas, let’s do weigh his expenses (not to mention his votes for government bailouts, illegal alien amnesty, and imperial warfare) and find him wanting. And while we’re waiting to kick Cornyn out, let’s get rid of the rest of the bums, too.
