It wasn’t April Fools Day, but with the headline “Gregg: Wasteful Spending Targeted,” one had to wonder.

Maybe the explanation is that, after serving as W¹s eager water-carrier for so long, perhaps New Hampshire¹s lifelong public trough-feeder caught a case of The Decider¹s Delusional Disease.

Earth to Judd: to target wasteful spending, start with a look in the mirror. Then you might check out something most of us call the Constitution.

The fact is, Judd specializes in wasteful spending. Oh sure, he¹s known for riding into town on his high aristocratic horse and tossing out bags of dimes to the humble peasants, especially right before election time. But really now, pork is pork is pork. Gregg’s largesse is blatantly self-serving. Those essential services truly in need, or workers whose jobs have gone overseas thanks to Gregg, recognize wasteful spending when they see it.

The list of Gregg’s wasteful spending is far too long to fit here, but let’s start. When he was governor, he enabled his wife to use a state gasoline credit card to fill a gas guzzler for often personal use. In the Senate, Gregg pushed to spend public dollars to restore a 56 foot statue of the Roman god of fire in Alabama. Of that proposal, John McCain said “…not one more Federal dollar should be spent on this kind of foolishness. Strike a victory for taxpayers,(vote against this) pork barrel spending.”

Gregg fought for benefits for American corporations which move offshore to avoid paying US taxes. Again McCain called Gregg’s vote “special deals for special interests.”

Then there's the $1 million Gregg voted for to fix up a bath house in Arkansas. A half million to build a carriage barn in Massachusetts. Subsidies for reindeer herders. More than a million dollars to repair churches in Alaska. Millions for a scenic railroad in Kentucky. Another million to study the DNA of bears in Montana. Over $300,000 for new chandeliers in the US Capitol. $405,000 to build a theme park in Kentucky. $900,000 to fix up a hotel in Florida that caters to the whims of the rich and famous.

He voted to change tax laws for US Airways so the company could cut pension benefits. He voted to subsidize the high-pollution coal industry. He was one of only 18 senators to vote for a special provision to allow 246 wealthy American investors to escape paying millions in debt that they owe.

Judd voted against eliminating special interest tax loopholes, which were intended to use the savings for veterans’ benefits.

Mr. Newly Against Wasteful Spending voted against eliminating a special-interest tax break that encourages American businesses to relocate production facilities to overseas tax havens. Yet when it comes to raising the minimum wage from the current $5.15, we can guess what Judd¹s position will be.

Then there¹s the $14 billion in giveaways to oil companies.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Judd. And citizen Gregg apparently doesn’t care what the Constitution says. What he dubbed a “Second Look at Waste” comes within an amendment to give the president line-item veto over spending items in the budget. Somebody please tell Judd: It’s Unconstitutional!

Oh by the way, it was his amendment that (one hopes temporarily) derailed a major ethics and lobbying bill.

Then there’s the little matter of the war. Of course Judd thinks it’s a swell idea to pour hundreds of billions of dollars of our money down the rat hole called Iraq.

One has to wonder if reality matter at all to Judd. It’s time for Mr. Gregg to stop and peer into the looking glass before he goes through it.