So Obammamessiah signs into law the spending bill with over 8000 earmarks on it after promising us he would not allow any more earmarks. This is not a Republican vs Democrat issue. This is an issue about what is right for the country during this crisis. There were plenty of Republicans who voted for this and who inserted their own earmarks. They should be voted out of office as well and they are certainly not conservatives. This is where the rubber meets the road and there were two brave senators from the Democratic party who tried to stand up to the pork parade. I applaud Evan Bayh of Indiana and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin for voting against the bill with all of these wasteful earmarks in it.
It is so disengenous of the White House to make statements like the following:
"I bet many presidents have signed bills that may not meet 100% of their desires," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters yesterday.
"This stuff should have been done before Senator Barack Obama became President-elect Barack Obama, and certainly before he became President Obama." Gibbs said the White House would seek "new rules of the road" regarding the appropriations process by which government agencies are authorised to spend tax dollars.
"It represents last year's business," he said. "Although it's not perfect, the President will sign the legislation, but demonstrate for all involved rules moving forward that he thinks can make this process work a little bit better."
The truth is that it is not last year's business. The Democrats refused to do anything on this last year in hopes that Obama would win. They knew that President Bush would not sign it with all of the earmarks on it and they saw this as their chance to move this bill into 2009 and lard it up with all of their wasteful spending. The fact is that this bill covers this year's spending not last years. Just another example of outright mischaracterizations by the new administration that was to be based on transparency, honesty and hope.
I guess by hope he meant "I hope my policies do not bankrupt the coutry" and by change he meant "by the time I am finished the US will change from being a superpower built on capitalism to an ordinary country that is based on European style socialism".
He is already demonstrating that he will be the worst President in history. Probably going to be worse than Jimmy Carter and we are only a little over two months into his Presidency. If the next 46 months are going to be anything like the first two than we are going to be in deep, deep trouble.
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Jon Kyl also criticized the earmarks, which included $180mm of his own!
The GOP simply has no room to talk on this topic, having included more earmarks in the last eight years than all of the preceding years combined.
Why weren't you complaining about this when the GOP ran the show?
I have always complained about wasteful government spending you just haven't been comprehending what Jim and I have been writing all this time. You must have done terrible on the ACT and SAT.
Read the original post and comprehend what has been written before you let your fingers fly.
And I quote from the original post "This is not a Republican vs Democrat issue. This is an issue about what is right for the country during this crisis. There were plenty of Republicans who voted for this and who inserted their own earmarks. They should be voted out of office as well and they are certainly not conservatives."
Did you actually read my post Rich or do you just assume that they are pro Republican and con Democrat? I am an America first guy. I don't give a flying F___ what party you are in if you are hard working, honest and put the interests of the country ahead of your own. There are clearly many members of congress from both parties that do not fit the above preferential items list.
They need to be defeated and moved out of office. The future of our country depends on it. Based on the first few months full of broken campaign promises and outright lies I can clearly say that our current President does not fit the mold.
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