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Exclusive: President Obama to Propose Budget Freeze and Earmark Ban Tonight
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Posted on 01/25/2011 9:06:01 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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FAIL.........
1 posted on 01/25/2011 9:06:03 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

In other news, Hell’s in the middle of a winter storm...


2 posted on 01/25/2011 9:09:19 AM PST by JRios1968 (This is me, in a nutshell: "Let me out of here...I'm trapped in a nutshell!!!!")
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Don’t ever believe a word that comes out of the mouth of this pathetic imposter.


3 posted on 01/25/2011 9:10:32 AM PST by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Great, since Obama is so serious now on cutting spending, then when the US Senate passes the repeal on Obamacare and dumps it on his desk, Obama should have no problem signing it.


4 posted on 01/25/2011 9:11:34 AM PST by Fred (Suspend All Immigration Until Unemployment is Reduced to 5%)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why not freeze it. It is as bloated as it has ever been. How about a budget CUT?


5 posted on 01/25/2011 9:11:37 AM PST by CobraJet
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To: Sub-Driver

Indeed, let’s freeze budgets and historical and unsustainable levels. That’ll fix things right up.


6 posted on 01/25/2011 9:12:28 AM PST by IamConservative (Liberlism - the surety of knowing that which cannot be proven by fact.)
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His strategy: pump up spending to gargantuan levels with supposed “temporary” “emergency” spending, and then “freeze” spending at those high levels.


7 posted on 01/25/2011 9:13:19 AM PST by arista
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To: Sub-Driver

So his campaign for 2012 is to run on the GOP ticket?

Re-invent himself!?

Next time, we need to elect someone whose training wheels come off at 90 days.


8 posted on 01/25/2011 9:13:48 AM PST by OpusatFR
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He wants to freeze the budget and make a $1.6 trillion deficit a permanent fixture? Yeah, that’ll work.


9 posted on 01/25/2011 9:13:59 AM PST by circlecity
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President Obama will tonight in his State of the Union address call for a ban on earmarks

Didn't Obumbler and his minions in the 111th anti-Progress deride this idea when the Republicans suggested it in the campaign?

10 posted on 01/25/2011 9:16:28 AM PST by ssaftler (Is "Audacity of Hope" English for "Mein Kampf"?)
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Actually, he pledged not to sign a budget that had earmarks in it. We know how that went.


11 posted on 01/25/2011 9:20:21 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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"Why not freeze it. It is as bloated as it has ever been. How about a budget CUT?"

Yep! Pad out the budget to benefit all your cronies and then freeze it in place. Sad to think how many people will be fooled by this.

12 posted on 01/25/2011 9:20:37 AM PST by Think free or die
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Ah here we go, look for this story later this year:

Published March 02, 2009 | AP

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

Administration budget chief Peter Orszag and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel both downplayed the $410 billion spending bill and signaled Obama would hold his nose and sign it. Orszag said: “We want to just move on. Let’s get this bill done, get it into law and move forward.

Said Emanuel: “That’s last year’s business.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/02/obama-sign-spending-despite-earmarks/


13 posted on 01/25/2011 9:24:44 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Except for Kobe beef and white truffle dinners at the WH, health care for feds, SEIU, teachers’ salaries and anything from Chicago.........

Conservatives at the SOTU need to do the wave periodically, just for fun.


14 posted on 01/25/2011 9:27:46 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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He will give with one hand, just watch what the other hand is doing. He’s like a slick pick pocket.


15 posted on 01/25/2011 9:27:48 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: OpusatFR

He won’t have to run on the republican ticket. There’ll be enough republicans in the house who show their love for him as a democrat. Those sitting all over the place tonight will insure his re-election in 2012. I give up with this republican party. The leadership should ORDER the damned people to sit where they’re supposed to sit. But instead they embrace this crap.


16 posted on 01/25/2011 9:31:35 AM PST by Terry Mross (I voted for McCain and WASTED my vote.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The budget is frozen and earmarks are banned.

Now, here is the list of waivers and exemptions...


17 posted on 01/25/2011 9:35:16 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Sub-Driver

A temporary budget freeze = no cuts = we stop accelerating towards the cliff but still go over it.


18 posted on 01/25/2011 9:37:14 AM PST by Yet_Again
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19 posted on 01/25/2011 9:37:14 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
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Another earmark ban? What happened to the last one?

“We are going to ban all earmarks.” - Baraq Hussein Obama - 9 Jan 2009

20 posted on 01/25/2011 9:42:58 AM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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