Earmarks
I mentioned yesterday that President Obama signed a massive $410,000,000,000 [$410 billion] spending bill loaded with over 8,500 earmarks.
In last year’s campaign, Senator McCain pledged that he would not sign a bill with a single earmark. Whether or not he would have abided by this pledge is of course unknown to us. What is known, however, is that President Obama just signed a bill with over 8,500 earmarks which will cost tax payers billions of dollars.
A presidential veto of this bill would have earned Mr. Obama credit with fiscal hawks like myself.
Predictably and pathetically, President Obama blamed the earmarks in the bill on President Bush. When will this president finally step forward and take responsibility for his own administration? This has become almost a gut reaction from this President–any criticism of him gets deflected by blaming President Bush. The earmarks that were in the bill are the responsibility of the Congressmen who placed them into the bill, the Congressmen who voted for the bill, and the President who signed the bill into law. President Bush is nowhere to be found in this process.
Even more disturbing than the 8,500 earmarks in this bill is the fact that our President has broken a campaign promise by signing this bill. Check out this CNN clip.
Americanly Yours,
Phred Barnet
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