The New Rules on pork.
Posted on 03/03/2009 6:55:49 AM PST by Free America52
President Obama, who has been criticized for his plans to sign a pork-laden $410 billion omnibus spending package moving through Congress this week, will release new rules for earmarks prior to signing the bill, the White House said Monday.
"The president is going to draw some very clear lines about what's going to happen going forward," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. "The rules of the road going forward for those many appropriations bills that will go through Congress and come to his desk will be done differently."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Obama thinks he has more power than he does. His only option is to veto the bill if he doesn’t like it. Sometimes I think he thinks he has line item veto...often he talks about going through the budget or bill, line by line. I don’t think he “gets it.”
Does he think Pelosi and Reid will meekly accept Barry’s orders and obey?
Closing the barn door after the Dems have spent more money on earmarks in our history. It will take years to dream up new projects to replace all of those that have been funded.
Obama doesn’t make the rules for what happens in Congress.
Absolutely - the New Rules are going to be that only Democrats may add earmarks to any bill - and in fact, they can add all the earmarks they want. Republicans need not apply.......
So earmarks will be done away with. Unless, of course they’re really, really important!!!
The New Rules on pork.
Obama will write new rules about earmarks then say that the 410b bill which is loaded with them was prior to the nbew legislation so it is ok.
And the sheeple will go Ohhhhhbaaaaaama goood......
The Dems told Obama “ Just sign the bill, BOY.”
The ever moving goal post......
Rule #1 - If a DemocRat proposes pork it’s not really pork, it’s enhancement for his constituents.
Rule #2 - If a Republican proposes pork, it’s ineligible to be included in the bill UNLESS the Republican agrees to co-sponsor the bill so that it can be called a bi-partisan effort.
Rule #3 - If a Lobbyist suggests pork, it’s not really pork if that Lobbyist has donated money to the DemocRats. If he’s donated some to Republicans, the ratio has to be 75% to DemocRats and 25% to Republicans or else the pork is ineligible to be included in the bill. See Rule #2.
Rule #4 - No one living or dead is allowed to contradict the current sitting President about pork unless he wishes to have his/her genderhood attacked by the MSM and 30 lawyers parachute into his/her home town to unearth any and all potential scandals against said person.
Did I guess correctly without even reading past the headline?
Simple rule, “It’s not called earmarks when I do it.”
That’s all he needs.
release new rules for earmarks / More fine print added to bill.
Thinks he’s the parliamentary “ruler” extraordinaire. American Civics 101, separation of powers to be abolished, the glove’s been thrown down.
The link is a thread about a booklet (”The Revolution Was”) written 71 years ago about the New Deal and FDR. I have been pushing this thread for awhile so sorry for the duplicates, but it is so important as it is ALL happening again.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Excerpt:
Until it was too late few understood one like Julius C. Smith, of the American Bar Association, saying: “Is there any labor leader, any businessman, any lawyer or any other citizen of America so blind that he cannot see that this country is drifting at an accelerated pace into administrative absolutism similar to that which prevailed in the governments of antiquity, the governments of the Middle Ages, and in the great totalitarian governments of today?
Make no mistake about it. Even as Mussolini and Hitler rose to absolute power under the forms of law... so may administrative absolutism be fastened upon this country within the Constitution and within the forms of law.” .........
As the nation faces its most severe recession since 1982, President Barack Obama apparently wants the American people to forget that he promised he would give them earmark reform if they elected him president, even if he had to go “line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.” It’s time for Obama to keep his promise.
However, administration officials - including Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag and White House chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel – have been calling the earmark-laden spending bill needed to keep the federal government operating through September “last year’s business.” Only in Washington can a spending bill that requires the president’s signature today be yesterday’s business. Although the $410 billion bill contains nearly 8,600 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion, White House officials say President Obama will sign it anyway. Americans, Orszag says, should just “move on.”
But embattled taxpayers will not soon forget this latest illustration of Washington double-talk. Even Time Magazine, whose coverage of Obama’s campaign verged on rapturous, finally had to ask: “Does Obama have a double standard on earmarks?” The fact that the president bragged to a televised joint session of Congress that there were no earmarks in his $787 billion stimulus package, only to remain silent as House Democrats passed a bill with nearly 9,000 earmarks the very next day, answers Time’s question in the affirmative.
For example, there’s $1.8 million to manage swine manure in Iowa, $190,000 for a “Buffalo Bill Historical Center” in Wyoming, $2.2 million to study grape genetics in New York, $175,000 for “façade improvements” on a dilapidated theater in Pennsylvania, $162,000 for cricket control in Utah, and a total of $41.5 million for the presidential libraries of three former Democratic presidents: FDR, JFK and Lyndon Johnson. Taxpayers will be billed for all of it.
No wonder less than two months into the new administration, thousands of angry Americans have already participated in Tea Party protests all around the country. Obama said last week that he “gets it” on executive pay caps. It’s time he gets it on earmarks, too, and veto this ridiculously wasteful omnibus pork bill.
When will Obama ‘get it’ on earmarks?
http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/When-will-Obama-get-it-on-earmarks—40635682.html
WOW, thanx for the link. Great read. Bumped & bookmarked.
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