Airbrushing Obama's name off earmarks

The evidence Obama sponsored earmarks (which he is publicly speaking against) will be destroyed. Jonathan Allen of CQ Politics reports on the process of hiding the evidence:

Congress will scrub President Obama's name from a list of earmark cosponsors in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill.

The reason: Whether Obama cosponsored the earmarks depends on what the definition of earmarks is and when an earmarks becomes earmarks, according to the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Subsequently, Senate Appropriations Committee spokesman Rob Blumenthal said Obama's name would be removed from future versions of the congressional report identifying earmarks and their sponsors.

History is written by the victors, so they say, and Obama famously declared, "I won."

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