Ah yes, a Pharoh and his frogs.....perfect!
Posted on 03/12/2009 4:08:16 AM PDT by NCDragon
He says the spending bill, which includes thousands of them, is too important to wait.
WASHINGTON -- As a candidate, Barack Obama once said that a president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time. Wednesday he proved it, though not in the way he had in mind.
He criticized pork-barrel spending in the form of "earmarks," urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress.
"Let there be no doubt, this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability," Obama said.
He said, however, that it was crucial for him to sign the $410 billion bill as soon as it arrived at the White House from Congress because it's needed to finance much of the government for the rest of this fiscal year. It was largely written last year but was held back while Republican George W. Bush was president because he opposed it.
"I am signing an imperfect ... bill," Obama said, "because it's necessary for the ongoing functions of government, and we have a lot more work to do. We can't have Congress bogged down at this critical juncture in our economic recovery."
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If Obama ever tries to stop one of Nancy’s spending bills, she will say things in public that will hurt his feelings. She will get very mean and nasty. He will cry. The media will turn against him and she will win.
This sorry piece of crap has an excuse a minute for the sorry job he and Congress foist on the American people. Anyone that believes a word coming out of his mouth should be locked up for the safety of society.
Honey, I promise never to slug you in the face again and give you another black eye...honestly!
Hussein has had several of those already to no effect. He is doing just what his supporters want, unlike George HW Bush.
“...said Steve Ellis, the vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group ‘We appreciate how he kept them out of the stimulus, but we think he’s only batting .500.’”
If even a group called the “Taxpayers for Common Sense” can be so nonsensical as to believe that the (first?) Spendulus bill did not contain the equivalent of many billions in earmarks, then we are all in serious trouble.
There will still be earmarks, but they will call them something else. Any guesses?
I quit smoking too.
Businessmen are not necessarily honest and most embrace corruption whenever it helps their business. When they have to operate in an unhampered market they are kept honest and socially beneficial by the exigencies of the market. When they are not, they fail. When Bureaucracy defines and controls the market only corruption can succeed or even exist.
Truth is what the Party says it is. Everything else is Lie.
My name is Barry Soetero, and I’m a spendaholic.
But no more after this one ..... I swear on my mother’s grave
There will still be earmarks, but they will call them something else. Any guesses?
“Targeted stimuli”
Ah yes, a Pharoh and his frogs.....perfect!
Great...now we’ve a president who thinks he’s doing standup comedy..?
Lier, lier pants on fire.
What are they saying about this at DU? Their boy prezident has broken a lot of campaign promises already. Have they noticed or are they still venting about Bush?
I must confess photoshop envy. Nice work. :-)
Everything is still Bush's fault....the old administration needs to be investigated and go to jail....Rush sucks.
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