As Earmarks Become Law, House Announces Earmark Reforms

Hysterical!!!!!

I believe very much in our new president and his administration, he, they have more (huge)issues,problems, conditions etc. to manage than any other new Presidency/Administration has had to deal with in modern history. Not only is the scope larger than the per verbal 800 pound gorilla, independently any one of these “problems” could derail our country for years, accumulate a few together & we could be sitting in the middle of the Great Depression II.
Given that the shear size and nature of these problems tend to feed each other and are self effacing to the point that they evolve at an exponential speed, our new administration is up to managing these tasks, and the administration is correct in addressing multipul fronts concurrently, because of the aforementioned evoloution and spped these issues are moving.
That said, I also believe that our new president is missing an opportunity with singing the operating budget just forwarded by Congress. There ARE earmarks within this budget that should be “returned to sender” postage due. Granted, one mans “pork” is another mans “stimulus” these “earmarks” by and large do not pass the smell test with respect to carrying any multiplier effect within the economy.
Also granted, most of this budget IS for true operational requirements that pay for the day to day operations of our government, even 8000 “earmarks” combined that will represent 2%-4% of the total spending is a large number.
And really more to the point, this is a great opportunity for Mr. Obama to walk the talk, support your campaign promise of reviewing this budget line by line, eliminate programs that do not function, reset spending to fully support those that do and eliminate the “earmarks” that do not pass the same level of scrutiny the “Stimulus Bill – Recovery Act” underwent.
We”eve got your back Mr. President, please take a little time with this budget, singe an emergency spending stop gap to keep the government functioning, return the budget to Congress with the directive to scrub it, reinstate the line item veto via Executive order and you will walk the talk with increasing your political capitol exponentially while doing what our country desperately needs.

Just went to the dictionary to look up the word LIAR.. An there was Obamas Picture

these jokers are like alcoholics “just one more drink and then I’ll quit”. Or “I can quit anytime I want just not now”. Almost all of these jokers should not be re-elected though because they are “bringing home the bacon” they will likely be re-elected in record numbers!

President Obama should VETO this bill. Stopping earmarks begins NOW not tomorrow. He has not brought change, he is doing ‘business as usual’.

Time for tea parties all over the US on April 15, folks. Go to taxdayteaparty.com for the list of events in your state. Let’s send these people in Washington a message they won’t forget.

Sarah Palin’s: Earmarks Hypocrisy, Facde & Chirade…
Alaska’s governor campaigned as an anti-earmark crusader…
Note: But the just-passed Omnibus Spending Bill Contains SEVERAL She SOUGHT.
—By Jonathan Stein and David Corn
On the campaign trail last year, Alaska’s Republican governor, Sarah
Palin, sold herself as a crusading reformer who despised earmarks–those federal spending projects that Capitol Hill legislators of both parties slip into appropriations bills.
Though her claim to have turned down an earmark for the now-infamous Bridge to Nowhere was debunked by assorted media outlets, she kept on insisting that if she were elected vice president, she would lead a charge in Washington
against earmarks.
That was then. The Omnibus spending bill that President Barack Obama signed on Wednesday Includes Earmarks that Palin Sought !!
The $410 Billion bill has been lambasted by Republicans and a few
Democrats for being loaded with nearly 9,000 earmarks covering $7.7
billion in projects.
Senator John McCain, Palin’s former ticket-mate, has blasted Obama for supporting the earmark-laden legislation.
But Earmarks in the Bill are quite Generous to Palin’s State.
According to Taxpayers for Common Sense,
a Washington-based watchdog group, Alaska will receive MORE MONEY, per
Capita, from the Bill’s Earmarks than Any Other State.
(Alaska will pocket $209.71 for each state resident.) One hundred earmarks in the bill, worth a total of $143.9 million, are tagged for Palin’s state.
Out the Alaska earmarks, Bill McAllister, Palin’s communications
director, pointed to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Rep. Don Young
(R-Alaska) as responsible for these provisions. But in an email, he
noted that a “few of [the Alaska earmarks] were requested directly” by
Palin.
But how many? And which ones ?
McAllister declined to say.
Mother Jones also asked McAllister if Palin believes it was appropriate for Murkowski and Young to insert these earmarks into the legislation and whether she will reject any earmarked funds.
He did not answer those queries either.
At the Republican convention in Minneapolis last summer, Palin introduced herself to America
by declaring she was a foe of wasteful spending who had “championed
reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.”
She claimed that she had said “thanks, but no thanks” to America’s most infamous earmark, the Bridge to Nowhere. During the presidential campaign, McCain railed incessantly against earmarks, at one point thundering that if he made it to White House, “I will take an ink pen and I will veto every pork barrel earmark spending bill that comes across my desk.”
The earmarks that Palin apparently will accept could also be ridiculed in a McCain-ish fashion.
They include $475,000 to construct a “heritage center” in the Chilkat Indian Village; $150,000 to support private industry participation in two international fishery groups; $200,000 for investigating and prosecuting bootlegging; $200,000 for
researching the king crab; and $855,000 for building fairgrounds.
Palin, who last year
tried to ride an Anti-Earmarks campaign into the vice presidency, is
apparently willing to exploit the earmarks process, make her own
requests, accept all the money that comes, and put that crusade of hers
on hold.

From cnnmoney.com:
Earmarks aren’t a new phenomenon. The Government Accountability Office has found examples dating back to the early years of the republic, including one from 1791 for $50,756.53 to be spent on “several objects” requested by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. The money was targeted for “converting the Beacon of Georgia into a lighthouse and for the purchase of hydrometers,” among other things.
While there have always been earmarks, their number grew exponentially between 1995 and 2006. (Note the party in power in Congress during this period!) That’s partly because lawmakers began to use earmarks as a way to help incumbents who risked losing re-election, Ellis said. And part of it was a feedback loop: as earmarks grew, so did the ranks of lobbyists to secure them.
“More earmarks begat more lobbyists begat more earmarks,” Ellis said.
Today, earmarks can number several thousand a year. But in the end, their total dollar amount typically represents less than 1% of the federal budget.

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