Obama: No earmarks, after this

Raleigh News & Obstructor ^ | March 12. 2009 | Steven Thomma and David Lightman

[Dixie Yooper]

If Obama ever tries to stop one of Nancy’s spending bills, she will say things in public that will hurt his feelings. She will get very mean and nasty. He will cry. The media will turn against him and she will win.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“I am signing an imperfect ... bill,” Obama said, “because it's necessary for the ongoing functions of government, and we have a lot more work to do. We can't have Congress bogged down at this critical juncture in our economic recovery.”

This sorry piece of crap has an excuse a minute for the sorry job he and Congress foist on the American people. Anyone that believes a word coming out of his mouth should be locked up for the safety of society.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Honey, I promise never to slug you in the face again and give you another black eye...honestly!

[arthurus]

Hussein has had several of those already to no effect. He is doing just what his supporters want, unlike George HW Bush.

[BuddhaBrown]

“...said Steve Ellis, the vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group ‘We appreciate how he kept them out of the stimulus, but we think he’s only batting .500.’”

If even a group called the “Taxpayers for Common Sense” can be so nonsensical as to believe that the (first?) Spendulus bill did not contain the equivalent of many billions in earmarks, then we are all in serious trouble.

[ConservativeByChoice]

There will still be earmarks, but they will call them something else. Any guesses?

[revtown]

I quit smoking too.

[arthurus]

Anything the government is in charge of is corrupt. It is a natural law in Economics. Bureaucrats are making market decisions and their motivations are not market related and even if they were, bureaucrats' incomes do not derive from economic right decisions and they cannot read market signals because they do not see them, even assuming bureaucrats are motivated for "the common good." When bureaucrats make the decisions then businessmen must buy their decisions from the bureaucrats and thus Corruption. It cannot be any other way because the "honest" bureaucrat or politician cannot get decisions made or implemented nearly so well as the corrupt one can and has no way of knowing what economically correct decisions are.

Businessmen are not necessarily honest and most embrace corruption whenever it helps their business. When they have to operate in an unhampered market they are kept honest and socially beneficial by the exigencies of the market. When they are not, they fail. When Bureaucracy defines and controls the market only corruption can succeed or even exist.

[arthurus]

Truth is what the Party says it is. Everything else is Lie.

[silverleaf]

My name is Barry Soetero, and I’m a spendaholic.

But no more after this one ..... I swear on my mother’s grave

[silverleaf]

There will still be earmarks, but they will call them something else. Any guesses?

“Targeted stimuli”

[BigLittle]

Ah yes, a Pharoh and his frogs.....perfect!

[Diogenesis]

[mo]

Great...now we’ve a president who thinks he’s doing standup comedy..?

[JamesA]

Lier, lier pants on fire.

[mad_as_he$$]

I will respect you in the morning, the check is in the mail, and I will not....

[GBA]

What are they saying about this at DU? Their boy prezident has broken a lot of campaign promises already. Have they noticed or are they still venting about Bush?

[Travis McGee]

"Thish ish my LAST botter of Scosh, I SHWEAR! After thish botter of Scosh, I am going on the wagon, I SHWEAR!"

[1curiousmind]

I must confess photoshop envy. Nice work. :-)

[ladyvet]

What are they saying about this at DU?

Everything is still Bush's fault....the old administration needs to be investigated and go to jail....Rush sucks.