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Has been interesting seeing even liberal media not being able to make excuses any more after O breaks one campaign promise after another.
1st it was no lobbyist on his team--has waived that 5 times now I believe--but latestest exposed by Mac in senate yesterday has several climbing on O.
Mac yesterday--

?We need earmark reform and when I?m president, I will go line by line to make sure we?re not spending money unwisely,? McCain said, reading back Obama?s words at a debate last fall. ?That?s the quote, the promise of the president of the United States made to the American people in a debate with me in Oxford, Miss. So what is brought to the floor today ? 9,000 earmarks.?So much for change.?


todays comments from liberal media-

Lectures From Team Obama Sound Hollow - Maureen Dowd, NY Times

Obama: A Course Correction Needed? - David Gergen, CNN

Obama Beats Early Retreat on Promise to Fight Pork - Andrew Taylor, AP

Obama is Not Who Moderates Thought He Was - David Brooks, NY Times

expanding on Maureen Dowds comments--

Before the Senate resoundingly defeated a McCain amendment on Tuesday that would have shorn 9,000 earmarks worth $7.7 billion from the $410 billion spending bill, the Arizona senator twittered lists of offensive bipartisan pork, including:

? $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York. ?quick peel me a grape,? McCain twittered.

? $1.7 million for a honey bee factory in Weslaco, Tex.

? $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa.

? $1 million for Mormon cricket control in Utah. ?Is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?? McCain tweeted.

? $819,000 for catfish genetics research in Alabama.

? $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi.

? $951,500 for Sustainable Las Vegas. (McCain, a devotee of Vegas and gambling, must really be against earmarks if he doesn?t want to ?sustain? Vegas.)

? $2 million ?for the promotion of astronomy? in Hawaii, as McCain twittered, ?because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy.?


? $167,000 for the Autry National Center for the American West in Los Angeles. ?Hopefully for a Back in the Saddle Again exhibit,? McCain tweeted sarcastically.

? $238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii. ?During these tough economic times with Americans out of work,? McCain twittered.


? $200,000 for a tattoo removal violence outreach program to help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past. ?REALLY?? McCain twittered.

? $209,000 to improve blueberry production and efficiency in Georgia.

?When do we turn off the spigots?? Senator McCain said in his cri de coeur on the Senate floor. ?Haven?t we learned anything? Bills like this jeopardize our future.?

In one of his disturbing spells of passivity, President Obama decided not to fight Congress and live up to his own no-earmark pledge from the campaign.

He?s been lecturing us on the need to prune away frills while the economy fizzles. He was slated to make a speech on ?wasteful spending? on Wednesday.
?You know, there are times where you can afford to redecorate your house and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding its foundation,? he said recently about the ?hard choices? we must make. Yet he did not ask Congress to sacrifice and make hard choices; he let it do a lot of frivolous redecorating in its budget.

He reckons he?ll need Congress for more ambitious projects, like health care, and when he goes back to wheedle more bailout billions, given that A.I.G. and G.M. and our other corporate protectorates are burning through our money faster than we can print it and borrow it from the ever-more-alarmed Chinese.

Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that ?the status quo is not acceptable,? even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork.

Obama spinners insist it was ?a leftover budget.? But Iraq was leftover, too, and the president?s trying to end that. This is the first pork-filled budget from a new president who promised to go through the budget ?line by line? and cut pork.

On ?Face the Nation? on Sunday, Obama?s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, dismissed the bill as ?last year?s business,? because most of it was written last year.

But given how angry Americans are, watching their future go up in smoke, the bloated bill counts as this year?s business.

It includes $38.4 million of earmarks sponsored or co-sponsored by President Obama?s labor secretary, Hilda Solis; $109 million Hillary Clinton signed on to; and $31.2 million in earmarks sought by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood with colleagues.

(Even Barack Obama was listed as one of the co-sponsors of a $7.7 million pet project for Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions until he got his name taken off last week.)


And then there are the 16 earmarks worth $8.5 million that Emanuel put into the bill when he was a congressman, including money for streets in Chicago suburbs and a Chicago planetarium.

Change :shrug:
 

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Stevie I don't know if your aware of it but--

peruse the threads and you'll note same thing in all of them--you have conservatives putting up undisputed facts--(O promising no pork and doing opposite) in this case

--and liberals replying with off topic one liners followed by :142smilie

--an intelligent lot you are--

from your example here -one must assume you don't mind pork as long as its O that got you bent over and doing the porking. :)
 

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Stevie lets get the real low down on these earmarks. Its easy to just lash out like a good parrot like DTB does but u would think these were al democratic earmarks



this should end this ridiculous thread unless DTB attacks Olberman (like a puppet)instead of what he actually says

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehfm_0llUzo
 

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Sure Obama is being less than forthright with his no earmarks promise but I expected it. Also, the Republicans look like total tools for their supposed outrage while they are requesting an assload of pork. There has absolutely been no change in Washington. Did anyone really expect any?
 

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Doesnn't this fly in the face of your claims of a "liberal media bias"? I 've always thought the media challenges whoever is in power.

It's just that some of us can handle the scrutiny.

Eddie
 

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It's a good point, Eddie, I thought the same thing when first reading the post. Of course there is no credit given for taking their positions - the only thing that can possibly be at play is that Obama is completely responsible and so far gone that even the liberals can't help. Despite the budget being put together by others in large part - but...

I would completely agree that the pork projects remain partly to blame for what is wrong with the country these days, and would agree in many cases it's tilted towards the liberal side. One of the reasons I was not a big Obama supporter was his liberal track record, and I am disheartened by the spending spree in many ways. I think it's great we are spending money in this country for projects that both help people and put people to work, but not to this degree. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility for your positions, and he is ultimately responsible in many ways.

Two ironic things, though, for some supposed staunch conservative legislators, is that the original Bush stimulus package was either ok, or only became ok when their own pet projects were added to the bill as payment for their votes, and many others taking credit for parts of the stimulus package that go directly to their home voters - after voting against the package.

All to blame in this, at days end.
 

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Doesnn't this fly in the face of your claims of a "liberal media bias"? I 've always thought the media challenges whoever is in power.

It's just that some of us can handle the scrutiny.

Eddie

Most people who are not so easily conned know this but those far, far, far righties throw that liberal tag out there like good little soldiers any time they are question about their ridiculous bullshit.
 

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they still haven`t opened up on this cap and trade scam yet.....

when they shed the light of day on this boondoggle,that`s when the shit will really hit the fan...

that will cost most americans an arm and a leg...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xOxwW4Toio

all in the interest of global warming/climate change/ozone hole/environmental cause du jour.....

and all the while,russia,india and china have told kyoto and all the other climate nazis to go fly a kite...

so,while we`re hamstringing our own economy and bankrupting more companies with this ridiculous gov`t money grab scam,all these other industrialized countries that we compete with will be sailing right along unencumbered...

makes sense if you want us to become a third world society...
 

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The Question should be,with all the chump change in question(sorry DTB,Hedgethe amount of the bill compared to the money in question,it is chump change.)

Some of the funds are needed IMO(the ones for envirmental reseach,or control for example.)
They must have there reasons.

To prematurely state that "wheres the change" before it is given time is just nieve.Theres no change coming cause of some minor funding in a stimulas bill??Dont get it.

Id be more concerned on how Obama is gonna handle the banking situation.Word is any bank that sees a mortgage failing will have the right to pass it on to the gov't.That scares me.
 

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Mc Cain should be peed at his own party members. Since they have 50% of the ear marks in that bill. And that bill was not Obamas. It's a hold over from last October/November.
The next one will have no ear marks. Mc Cain is a big B S. I thought he was good enough Man to take his loss for prez with out being a half truth story teller.
 

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Mc Cain should be peed at his own party members. Since they have 50% of the ear marks in that bill. And that bill was not Obamas. It's a hold over from last October/November.
The next one will have no ear marks. Mc Cain is a big B S. I thought he was good enough Man to take his loss for prez with out being a half truth story teller.

So true but I guess DTB doesn't mind being bent over by his own party and hung out to dry! :142smilie

Oh DTB what percentage of the bill is pork? And are you sure that these porkers will not provide jobs?
And what makes McCain an authority, last I heard he said everything was pretty good!:142smilie

Oh yeah :0corn
 
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