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Earmarks? What earmarks?
The Modesto Bee reports on how there are earmarks galore in Congress’ upcoming omnibus spending bill:
During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.
“We need earmark reform,” Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. “And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
President Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that’s riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.
The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks – loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress – were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.
So while Obama and McCain were slamming earmarks on the campaign trail, House and Senate members – Democrats and Republicans – were slapping them into spending bills.
“It will be a little embarrassing for the president if he signs a bill with that many earmarks on it,” said Stan Collender, a veteran Washington budget analyst. “He’ll say they’re left over from the Bush years, and he as to say that next year the bill will be clean.”
The article goes on to say that “experts” believe that “most” earmarks are “legitimate.” I beg to differ: Michelle Malkin’s got a small list of unnecessary earmarks found so far in the omnibus bill – and those digging through it continue to find more unnecessary waste as they peruse the pages of the bill.
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Those aren’t earmarks, they just look like them. The fact that they just happen to benefit campaign contributors doesn’t have anything to do with it and certainly doesn’t imply quid pro quo. These are all legitimate. Just ask the reivers who put them in, and the one who will sign it into law.
I am having a real problem with this Pay as we go plan. This is basically Congress shurking off it’s Constititionally mandated authority to create a budget so that the Government can be run properly. Under POGO, these guys will be able to spend whatever they want as long as they can find enough people to approve it. This is the 2nd time since 2006 that the Dem congress as done this, but yet Barack tells the world that he “inherited” this deficit. Bullhockys!! These Dems created a large majority of it, and are going to create even more. We have sold our Children’s, children’s children into this slavery as it will take at least three generations to pay this off, and if this stupidity continues….well we will let the future be the judge of that. – Lorica
Their will be no embarassment, this Bill does exactly what it is supposed to do, further bankrupt the middle class in America, formerly know as the People, while putting trillions into the hands of the elite.
They can then use that money to buy assets that used to belong to the People for pennies on the dollar.
Meanwhile as Jefferson said our children will wake up slaves in the land their fore fathers fought to free.
Ya gotta love that $432,000 earmark for La Raza, a racist separatist group.
What was that bit about post-racialism under Obama, again?
La Raza isn’t racist, not by the new definition (made up, of course, by racists), and just because this looks suspiciously like a quid pro quo it really isn’t because La Raza is such a fine, socially responsible, patriotic group that just happened to deliver a huge voting block (albeit probably heavily weighted with criminal aliens) for the new prez-for-life, his holiness.