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Obama's Big Earmark Lie
20 hours ago ago from YID With LID
During the presidential campaign, earmark reform was a major theme for John McCain, who would point out the earmark's requested by other candidates. During the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, 2008, Barack Obama made a brilliant political move when he co-opted John McCain's Earmark Issue. He said he stopped requesting earmarks as a senator and that he shared McCain's desire for earmark reform and the elimination of wasteful projects. ...
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15 hours ago ago from Infidels Paradise
The Hill : Obama falls short on pledge to curtail earmarks, fiscal hawks say By Walter Alarkon Fiscal hawks in Congress say President Barack Obama hasn't followed through on a pledge to lower federal spending on local projects. Earmarks are expected to total nearly $12 billion in fiscal 2010, according to fiscal watchdog groups. While that number is less than the $15 billion total in 2009, lawmakers from both parties said ...
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3 hours ago ago from Socialism is not the Answer
Washington Examiner By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer Dec. 27, 2009 Remember when President Obama promised to go through legislation line by line eliminating earmarks? Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., hasn't forgotten : Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) said Obama made earmark reform a very big part of [his] campaign but still signed this month two massive spending measures that both included approximately $4 billion in earmarks. ...
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12 hours ago ago from Barack Obama | Obama Politics | President Barack Obama
Herbert/AP President-elect Barack Obama speaks to reporters after a meeting with his top economic advisers Tuesday. WASHINGTON-President-elect Barack Obama forecast trillion-dollar deficits for years to come on Tuesday,arguing that the government has no choice but busting the federalbudget to rescue a precarious economy. We're already looking at a trillion-dollar budget deficit or closeto a trillion-dollar budget deficit, Obama told ...
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10 hours ago ago from Brilliant at Breakfast
Here's a dispatch from the "Figure that out all by yourself, Einstein?" file (I can't believe I missed this earlier this month): The president's pursuit of a jobs bill that could cost close to $200 billion was never likely to attract bipartisan support. But the contentiousness of a meeting that was called expressly to foster cooperation and on Mr. Obama's home turf was unusual because members of Congress and the president typically mute ...
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