GOP Senate Candidate Mack Calls House Budget a 'Joke'

The Miami Herald‘s Marc Caputo reports that Florida congressman Connie Mack IV, a candidate for the GOP nomination for Senate in 2012, called the budget recently passed by the House of Representatives a “joke.”

“You know that budget was a joke, doesn’t balance the budget for years,” Mack said at a recent campaign event in Florida. But two weeks ago, Mack’s congressional spokeswoman Lisa Griffin told THE WEEKLY STANDARD in an email, prior to the House vote on Ryan’s budget, that Mack “intends to vote for it.”