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In any case, the 2006 request for the hospital was not approved by the Senate, as was about $7 out of every $10 the Illinois senator asked for in earmarks.

Regardless that Obama's request for the hospital was not approved, it remains that constitutional "expert" Obama is clueless that his request was based on non-existent federal government powers in the first place.

This post (<-click), although addressing a tax-related issue, explains in more detail why misguided politicians like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, a consequence of unthinkingly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.

The bottom line is that the people need to reconnect with the intentions of the Founders as reflected by the Constitution and its history. The people need to wise up to the very serious problem that the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution as evidenced by constitutionally unauthorized federal spending. The people need to quit sitting on their hands and petition big-shot federal spenders like Obama to resign from their jobs as opposed to trying to put people like him in the Oval Office.

..but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union. In like manner, they are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase, not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please, which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useles

"..proposals to allocate $400 billion to purchase foreclosed-upon and now-abandoned homes" ;)

..See what happens when one starts out with " A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" promise? (Herbert Hoover Campaign)