Obama Signs 'Imperfect' Spending Bill Away From Cameras
$410 Billion Omnibus Bill Has Nearly 9,000 Earmarks Worth $8 Billion
This was the "imperfect" bill Obama pretended he was forced to sign to keep government running, pure nonsense but what else is new from the hope and change express. And how much of a phony is the President, this much:
It was just one year ago when the president was admonishing earmarks during his campaign and vowed to reduce them.
"I've pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I am president of the United States," he said in Green Bay, Wis., last September.
In fact, it was this week last year that then-Sen. Obama swooped in off the campaign trail -- along with then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -- to vote for a bill that would have imposed a one-year moratorium on earmarks.
"We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it," the then-junior senator from Illinois said of the bill that eventually failed.
And what did Gibbs say?
Today, the White House defended the president's record on earmarks.
"As the president said today, it was time to take change one step further," spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "And I think the president was clear that, if there are earmarks that get through the process that he thinks are unnecessary, he will work on a vehicle to remove those from our spending priorities."
Vehicle, what the hell does that even mean?
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