Thursday, March 5, 2009

Obama to Sign Spending Bill With Earmarks

President Barack Obama will sign a $410 billion government-spending bill, even though it includes thousands of the spending ''earmarks'' that he had criticized on the campaign trail, a top White House aide said.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, speaking on CBS's ''Face the Nation'' Sunday, said the president wasn't happy with the 9,000-or-so earmarks that lawmakers added to the legislation. But

"this is last year's business"

[I believe the year is 2009, and it's Obama's desk the bill will land on and his hand which will sign it into law. How stupid do they think we are?...................
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