9,000 earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill: Gang tattoo removal, Maine

[easymoney]

"You want earmarks? There are lots and lots and lots of earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill coming down the road. Not that any of the people who are going to vote for it will actually read it, of course. If they did, they couldn’t look into the camera and sanctimoniously declare that, uh, you know, “There are no earmarks.”
"The Modesto Bee reports:

"During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks."
“We need earmark reform,” Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. “And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
"President Barack Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that’s riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice."
"The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks — loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress — were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees."
"So while Obama and McCain were slamming earmarks on the camp aign trail, House and Senate members — Democrats and Republicans — were slapping them into spending bills.
“It will be a little embarrassing for the president if he signs a bill with that many earmarks on it,” said Stan Collender, a veteran Washington budget analyst."

"Hill staffer Tom Jones is going through the omnibus spending bill with a fine-tooth comb, and Twittering his earmark findings, including:
* $200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,” pg. 283;
*Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;
*$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,” pg. 232;
*and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212."

Michelle Malkin 9,000 earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill: Gang tattoo removal, Maine lobster, La Raza & more!

Funny, don't see one article mentioning any of this bill or the pork earmarks in the MSM. Nor any mention of the fact that this bill never was made public for review...

[pbrdog]

This is the change that people voted for. The presidential election should be held like American Idol. The same mentallity goes into it.

[MULEY51]

Originally Posted by pbrdog

This is the change that people voted for. The presidential election should be held like American Idol. The same mentallity goes into it.

Man, you hit that right on the head. "Change" is all we'll have left when this is over. The ignorance of the sheeple is amazing.

The Dems are using this "stimulus" crap to get all of their PORK past the people. Of course, too many people don't realize what is happening, aren't smart enough to see it, or just don't give a damn because the Anointed One says it's good for them.

How do you spend nearly a TRILLION dollars one day, then say you're going to cut the deficit in half the next??? All the while PORKING the people...

[Mntngoat]

pass the BBQ sauce!

When Obama said he would cut the deficit in 1/2 by the end of his first term I knew I wanted some of whatever he's smoking!

ML