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Obama Will Sign Spending Bill Despite Earmarks
FoxNews ^ | 2 March 2009 | n/a

Posted on 03/02/2009 6:49:57 AM PST by batter

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge and sign a budget bill laden with millions in lawmakers' pet projects, administration officials said.

Administration budget chief Peter Orszag and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel both downplayed the $410 billion spending bill and signaled Obama would hold his nose and sign it. Orszag said: "We want to just move on. Let's get this bill done, get it into law and move forward.

Said Emanuel: "That's last year's business."

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Either way, it is far more than Obama promised as a candidate. He refused "earmarks" for the economic stimulus package he championed and a children's health bill.

He similiarly pledged to reject tailored budget requests that let lawmakers send money to their home states. Orszag said Obama would move ahead and overlook the time-tested tradition that lets officials divert millions at a time to pet projects.

"We want to make sure that earmarks are reduced and they're also transparent. We're going to work with the Congress on a set of reforms to achieve those," said Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Obama's top hands assigned responsibility to their predecessors and President George W. Bush.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhobudget; bhoomb; brokenpromises; earmarks; lies; obama; orszag; promises; unicorn
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First, expect "blame Bush" for another four years - even when it involves breaking his promise and anything Obama has complete control over.

Second:


1 posted on 03/02/2009 6:49:57 AM PST by batter
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To: batter; Admin Moderator; All
Aaargh! I searched for "earmarks" and I didn't see the article posted. Maybe I misspelled earmarks.

This article has already been posted:

Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks (More Obama Double-Talking Jive)

2 posted on 03/02/2009 6:53:45 AM PST by batter (Wolverines!)
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To: batter

3 posted on 03/02/2009 6:54:32 AM PST by Diogenesis (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: batter
I have the perfect sounding board, a couple of CNN Obamaloons on my street. I take the temperature every few days.

Last check was how much exactly did the Iraq war cost? As usual, neither knew anything close to the truth about how much it actually cost. In fact they weren't even clear we won. Proves what a steady CNN diet can do to a few coconuts.

When I said The Acting President Obama's deficit exceeds the deficits of the last five years of Bush they weren't about to believe that. That's what my handouts were for ... LOL.

4 posted on 03/02/2009 6:57:33 AM PST by Tarpon (It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
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To: batter
Nancy Pelosi has this one trained well enough to win at Westminster next year. I can tell by the way she acted at the address last week that she is very proud of her accomplishment...
5 posted on 03/02/2009 6:59:18 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: batter

Obama just lies.....and lies.....and the dumb electorate buys it. Maybe they’ll wise up when the DOW goes to 3000, unemployment to 15%, and God forbid a terrorist attack which will be laid directly at his feet.


6 posted on 03/02/2009 7:01:04 AM PST by kenmcg (cOMMBYAH)
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To: Diogenesis

The figurehead of the failing nascent obama regime is just another Eddy Haskell. He’s as oily in his politeness to adults as he is weaselly in his dealings with his peers.

No earmarks. Now that is weaselly. And disingenious as well. If not entirely dishonest.


7 posted on 03/02/2009 7:03:47 AM PST by alloysteel (Obama was lying, your rights are dying)
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To: alloysteel

Well. I will give him this it WAS last year appropriation from Dem Congress and Bush Presidency with earmarks at 60% Dem and 40% GOP. So far, NO earmarks in his bills. Flame away!


8 posted on 03/02/2009 7:10:09 AM PST by mono
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To: batter
Let's get this bill done, get it into law and move forward...before anyone can do anything about it.


9 posted on 03/02/2009 7:11:31 AM PST by tsmith130 (If I had wanted him to succeed, I would have voted for him. I didn't...so I don't.)
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To: Tarpon

Can’t wait ‘till you drop this one on them.


10 posted on 03/02/2009 7:12:47 AM PST by batter (Wolverines!)
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To: batter
Resident Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge...

Why, you could knock me over with a feather! I haven't been this surprised since Clay Aiken announced that he was gay!

11 posted on 03/02/2009 7:14:37 AM PST by Ignatz (%Ohhh! You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd....%)
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To: batter

So Obama is a liar. But we knew that.


12 posted on 03/02/2009 7:15:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: batter

Hussein is the biggest liar evah!


13 posted on 03/02/2009 7:15:55 AM PST by dforest
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To: mono
Nothing stopped him from demanding that the earmarks be stripped as the legislation was going through Congress. He didn't make the slightest attempt to keep this promise.

Expiration date reached.

14 posted on 03/02/2009 7:15:58 AM PST by batter (Wolverines!)
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To: batter
...laden with millions in lawmakers' pet projects...

Millions, they say! Only millions???

15 posted on 03/02/2009 7:24:11 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt

“Yes we can” put lipstick on an earmark.


16 posted on 03/02/2009 7:27:11 AM PST by shineon
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To: batter

Earmarks: (noun) Tangible evidence Obambi has passed through a doorway.


17 posted on 03/02/2009 7:29:01 AM PST by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: batter
"Obama Will Sign Spending Bill Despite Earmarks"


18 posted on 03/02/2009 7:29:44 AM PST by musicman (Until I see a REAL C.O.L.B. BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: kenmcg
You are right about the Obama deception. I suspect that all of his lies are a means to an end, our end.
19 posted on 03/02/2009 7:44:53 AM PST by ANGGAPO (Leyte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: batter
No surprise here....

I'm just wondering how long folks will allow the bastards in Washington to continue until they initiate the “French Disconnection”....

Guillotines! ......the Mall littered with the “heads of state”.

The lynchings to end all lynchings.

20 posted on 03/02/2009 7:55:47 AM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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