White House: Earmark Reform Coming (Just Not With This Omnibus Spending Bill)

“When will that happen?”
It isn’t going to happen. It’s like a feeding frenzy. They’re not going to stop until the American Taxpayer is a shredded, bloody, pulp of nothing.

You reckon they realize they’re driving this economy into ruins and they’re all just trying to get their piece before it all falls down?

I thought there weren’t any earmarks in this legislation — was I somehow misled or am I just hard of hearing?

“I thought there weren’t any earmarks in this legislation — was I somehow misled or am I just hard of hearing?”
You’re just misinformed or not paying close attention.
You do know the difference between Obama’s stimulus bill, the Omnibus spending bill (leftover from ’08) and the Obama admininstrations Budget Proposal… don’t you?
If you don’t, please educate yourself.

Clueless + inexperience = stimulus with pork.

Well it seems that the Earmarks made by the GOP is about 677 million and the Dems about 699 million this is with dems having about 1 and 1/2 times more members then the GOP.
So it seems that the GOP and the Dems share this with the GOP getting more then their share. so why the snarky post about Obama?

What a joke. They will enact reform when? They have include record, massive, multiples of historic amounts of pork and earmarks in the faux stimulus bill and this new omnibus spending bill.
Nancy Pelosi refused to pass this bill when Bush was in office, now their excuse is it is left over from last year.
They are spending every patronage, special interest dollar they can and then when they have done it all, they will find a conscience and begin earmark reform.
Closing the barn door after the horses are gone.
Clinton/Gore were equally bold in their ridiculous justifications for things. Remeber the lemonade defense.
But being a liberal they know they will get a pass from the mainstream press.
This is massive corruption on the taxpayer dime.

BTW those of you framing your posts with “I used to be for OBAMA but now am a PUMA for Palin” aren’t fooling anybody. The President has only been in office for a month and a half, he’s trying to push an aggressive agenda to bring America back from the brink, and this is why you claim to have already withdrawn your “support?”
Please. Such blatant BS.
TROLLS

I wish the president could prohibit insertions of any and all non-bill related items from any bill. This is not negotiations. The way bills are currently set forth, a citizen can NEVER know where a rep stands on it. Adding one thing per rep in order to get these turkeys vote is why we have an opaque system that keeps voters ignorant.

The Man has been in Office,
What…
3 Months, and the President is suppose to CHANGE this Practice without a Vote from the Senate and Congress…
That’s not the Democratic System…
Implicate or Imply that this New President is not doing his Job, are Pitiful, Pathetic and Presumptuous, to say the Least.
Note: The Pork Projects, don’t even constitute 5% of the Omnibus.
Jake you should Rest this …
[[Sad Gotcha Moment]]

Unfortunately Obama is validating the complaints of many of his campaign foes. Full of rhetoric with little substance. So far change has meant recycled Clintonians and tax cheats followed by throwing money, hoping it will stick. The stance that this bill is a “holdover” is hollow.

Jake, I hope you’ve had time to check out the new analysis by the non-partisan Taxpayers for Common Sense. Among other findings they say:
“If it’s budget time, it’s good to be a red state. And it’s very good to be Mississippi.
According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense, Mississippi has won the earmark contest in the omnibus budget package.
Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran led his colleagues by raking in more than $470 million in 204 earmarks. Mississippi’s junior Republican, Roger Wicker, pulled in more than $390 million.”
Do not allow the screaming Republicans to try to make this into an issue about “the Democrats”. This is bipartisan. It’s up to the media to tell the truth.

sandy,
Speaking of Palin, has she paid back Alaska for the money she cheated them out of yet?

I used to support Obama, but now i m for Palin
Posted by: sandy
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She of the $398 MILLION in taxpayer money for a Bridge to Nowhere?
Bwahahahaha.

Oh So Democrats are not the Only Ones into Pork hummm Hipocrite Republicans!

Willem, don’t be silly. As I am sure you know, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 had FOUR principal cosponsors and a total of 46 sponsors. Yes, freshman senator Obama was one of the four lead sponsors and JOHN MCCAIN was another. However, Tom Coburn was the principal sponsor, so the credit must be shared. Saying, “It was Obama who introduced” the bill, as your only piece of evidence for your claim that Obama had somehow done more than McCain on the issue, is grossly misleading. Oh, and this was such a controversial and groundbreaking piece of legislation that it passed unanimously by both the House and the Senate and signed by President Bush. Yep, that’s leadership on an issue, alrightee.
It’s one thing to say that Obama, like McCain, opposes earmarks. I would have let that pass. But to claim some mantle of superiority for his efforts on the issue is not credible.

Obama is spending us right into a depression.
What an incredible hypocrite. Probably the next bill won’t have any earmarks that are CALLED earmarks. But like the stimulus bill, it will have all kinds of earmark spending, with a different name. Kind of like his pledge to leave Iraq, except for 50,000 troops that just won’t be CALLED combat troops. But they’ll still have bullets coming at them.

Hey Jake, how about an article on the secret Bush memos that Obama just released. They are very interesting.

Mr. Tully, What on earth inspired you to criticize Mr. Tapper for doing his job? He is supposed to ask questions that elicit answers from the administration. That’s his beat. He has to deal with Mr. Gibbs’ daily joke of a press briefing. If I were to ask Mr. Tapper a question about his dealings with Mr. Gibbs, it would be– how do you keep a straight face throughout the whole proceeding? Some of Mr. Gibbs’ answers are on point and useful, but some of them are, variously, opaque, convoluted, and/or waspish. Of course, we know that press secretaries are wont to try to spin every White House pronouncement and decision in a positive way– that’s their job. But Gibbs seems not really ready for prime time sometimes.
Let Jake do his job. He does not seem to me to be bearing a particular grudge. He asks good questions, for the most part, and tries to insist on clear answers, following up when necessary to point out evasiveness or points of discrepancy between the answer being given and previous statements.
Keep it up, Mr. Tapper. Since I’ve seen you accused of both being a shameless shill for the president and of being in league with the Republicans to bring the president down, you must be doing something right.

Jake…
Most Red Republican, Southern, Rural, Mountainous and Appalachian States get [[Government Earmark Money]]
In any Rate, the earmarks Constitute Less than 5% of the Omnibus…
Give it a Damn Rest…
Call me when the Omnibus or the Stimulus Package is 30-40% Pork…
Until then, this News is
[[Chicken Nuggets]]
Let hem have their Baby Back Pork Ribs

Political Armageddon: Ending Special Interest Influence in Washington DC
by Bernie Horn
There’s no question that this is the battle of a lifetime.
The end of the world is near — the Reagan world, that is. In one gigantic political battle, we can end the world of tax cuts for the rich, federal government-led attacks on organized labor, mindless deregulation, subsidies for wealthy corporations, war against science and preemptive war in Iraq.
The old political world will end on October 1, 2009 (the beginning of the next fiscal year) — if we just win the battle to enact President Obama’s budget.
Anyone who didn’t see or hear Obama’s Weekly Address on Saturday should go to the White House website and watch it. It is a declaration of war against the special interests:
I realize that passing this budget won’t be easy. Because it represents real and dramatic change, it also represents a threat to the status quo in Washington.

O, I try to find an underlying general point to your multiple posts here, but for the life of me, I cannot. First you insist, in post after post, that earmark spending is no big deal because it is a small percentage of the bill. Leave it alone, you say, and don’t expect O. to be upset about this silly nonsense. You get on your soapbox, as usual, about how the president is just fresh in the ofice and we are rushing to judgement.
Then you offer a long message copied from Taxpayers for Common Sense (without attribution, I might add), making the point that Republicans earmark just as much as, if not more than, Democrats. (I’m shocked, I tell you, to learn there is gambling in Casablanca) So are earmarks okay or not? Are Republican earmarks evil but Democrat-sponsored ones okay? Are we to think that Obama is doing the Republicans a favor by ignoring earmarks, and so is doing his bipartisan best to reach out to them? What is your point?
My point is consistent and clear– earmarks are an inappropriate way to fund projects. They are often a form of pork, but earmark and pork are not synonyms. Both Democrats and Republicans should be committed to eliminating both earmarks and wasteful spending from the federal budget. During the campaign, Obama promised to be a part of that effort, co-opting a McCain issue (as he also effectively co-opted many of Hillary’s issues). Now that he’s been elected and must govern, he is ignoring the messy details and kicking the can down the road. Not change, just business as usual.