Obama whines: How come 1% in earmarks is a lot but 1% in budget cuts isn’t?

“Well, you can’t have it both ways,” the president said. “If those earmarks were important, then this money is important, too.”

Well Mr. Hope and Change.
One of the major problems is that YOU PROMISED not to allow pork and wasteful spending:

Broken promise No. 6: Earmark reform

As WND reports, at the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., Obama declared, “[W]e need earmark reform. And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”

However, in February, Obama passed his $787 billion stimulus aimed at jolting the declining U.S. economy. Before a joint session of Congress, Obama declared: “Now, I’m proud that we passed a recovery plan free of earmarks.”

Some chuckled in amusement when he claimed the bill contained no pork.

“There was just a roar of laughter – because there were earmarks,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told CNN.
U.S. News & World Report found at least eight earmarks in his stimulus bill.

Obama also signed a $410 billion omnibus bill for 2009. More than 9,000 earmarks in the spending bill total an estimated $7.7 billion.

Even though the Democrat-controlled Congress crafted the bill after Obama’s election, the administration claims the added pork is just “unfinished business” from last year.
The White House website states, “Obama and Biden will slash earmarks to no greater than 1994 levels and ensure all spending decisions are open to the public.” However, watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense reports that the omnibus pork alone already totals $7.7 billion – just less than the total of $7.8 billion in earmarks in 1994 – and the figure does not include $6.6 billion in earmarks contained in three previous spending bills Congress passed amid the bailout crisis last year.

During his three years in the Senate, Obama requested more than $860 million in earmarks, according to the group. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 earmarks – worth approximately $8.5 million – in the bill.

Remember,words matter.

Obama Will Sign Spending Bill Despite Earmarks
President will break a campaign pledge on Monday and sign a budget bill laden with millions in lawmakers’ pet projects, administration officials said.
AP Sunday, March 01, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/01/budget-chief-obama-sign-spending/

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge and sign a budget bill laden with millions in lawmakers’ pet projects, administration officials said.

How can this be?
Where is my “CHANGE”.

Obama & Earmarks: One Year Ago This Week
March 11, 2009 2:01 PM
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=503d6378b0e7bbf4f5488ec58d1fd50d&url=http%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F

Then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., one year ago this week, swooped in from the campaign trail to — along with then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — vote for an amendment to impose a one-year moratorium on earmarks for fiscal year 2009.

All three then-presidential candidates voted for the amendment,offered by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC.

It failed: 71 NAYs, 29 YEAs.

Candidate Obama said then “we can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project. 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. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.”

Today, of course, President Obama will sign into law more than 8,000 earmarks for FY 2009, part of the $410 billion omnibus spending bill.

It is almost as if he was just saying things and making promises to get elected.

How can this be from the man that was going to restore America and bring back it’s pride.

This is the man that was going to change the way things are done in Washington,
Complete Transparency,
Accountability,

Lobbyist and fat cats were not going to be running the show anymore.

Of course,that is another promise Mr. Hope and Change has broken.He has lobbyist hired on and running all over Washington.
He!!,they even sent them the stimulus bill (I mean spending bill) before they let Republicans see it.

I don’t know about you,but when you run on a platform of change and accountability than break promise after promise after promise I think there is a real problem,it’s called LACK OF CREDIBILITY.

Hope and Change my a$$.

Baxter Greene on May 14, 2009 at 10:19 PM