Posted on 03/03/2009 12:24:34 PM PST by STARWISE
Even though President Barack Obama has repeatedly pledged to ban congressional earmarks, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 such projects, worth about $8.5 million, in the bill the Senate is considering this week.
The earmarks include funds for Adler Planetarium and west suburban Franklin Park. Obama has been relentless in criticizing the use of earmarks; in his address to Congress last week, he boasted how the economic stimulus package was "free of earmarks."
By the end of this week, however, he's likely to sign a separate $410 billion spending plan that keeps most domestic programs funded through Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2009. It's a measure that contains about 9,000 earmarks.
Emanuel, who until Jan. 2 was a congressman from Illinois' 5th District, dismissed the bill Sunday as "last year's business."
Most of the measure was written in 2008. It stalled when the Democratic-led Congress and former President George W. Bush disagreed on spending levels.
(Emanuel's earmarks detailed at link)
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
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More lib lies and spin.
9,000 earmarks!!
~~PING!
BTTT
When is McCain going to ‘name names’ as he promised?
Oh, sorry, forgot, he only attacks Republicans in such a way.....
Zero integrity, zero humanity, and zero accountability.
0 + 0 + 0 = Yep. It’s still 0.
The little slime ball weasel behind Obama, fast at work......
Chicago style corrupt politics now playing in a White House near you!
Reagan must be rolling over in his grave!
Nothing nor anyone slowing Rahmbo down. Sheesh!
“The little slime ball weasel behind Obama, fast at work......”
This is proof positive that The Chicago Way has arrived in full splendor at the White House. Either:
a) The Managerial Weenie Hypothesis: BHO truly is offended by earmarks, but his closest advisor didn’t give a damn and sneaked these right under his nose; OR
b) The Hypocrisy Hypothesis: BHO truly is offended by earmarks, but decided that his hard-and-fast rule against them could be bent in the case of his hard-working COS; OR
c) The Mendacity Hypothesis: BHO doesn’t give a damn about earmarks—especially when they benefit his closest pals—but will publicly rail against them until the cows come home.
I don’t think any of these explanations bodes well for the country and the last is the one that best fits all the other evidence we have about Obama’s operating style. Watch what he does, not what he says, if you want the best measure of this man.
Um.. and the "Change" thing?
White House COS "pledging allegiance" to the USA on inauguration day.
He’s probably SPINNING.
I wouldn’t buy a used car from this man. or a used toilet either. Bleck.
We Are The Change.
really?
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