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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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Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks (More Obama Double-Talking Jive)
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.
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.
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.
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!
Can’t wait ‘till you drop this one on them.
Why, you could knock me over with a feather! I haven't been this surprised since Clay Aiken announced that he was gay!
So Obama is a liar. But we knew that.
Hussein is the biggest liar evah!
Expiration date reached.
Millions, they say! Only millions???
“Yes we can” put lipstick on an earmark.
Earmarks: (noun) Tangible evidence Obambi has passed through a doorway.
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.
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