President Obama on Wednesday signed an ''imperfect''spending bill packed with special projects in order to keep government running*, but he vowed that it will be the last one and proposed ways to curb lawmakers from abusing the process in the future.
[*untrue: the default was a 'continuation resolution' which would have funded all activity at last year's levels]
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Obama & Earmarks: One Year Ago This Week
Then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., one year ago this week, swooped in from the campaign trail to vote for an amendment to impose a one-year moratorium on earmarks for fiscal year 2009. All three then-presidential candidates voted for the amendment. It failed. Obama said then
"we can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project."
[LDot: "And the MSM media continues to bat their eyes and swoon"]
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