Empty promises

[Objectivitees]

Ummm, didn't the candidate BHO promise to END earmarks? Now it's OK if they're done right? But he now promises to "curb" them?

WASHINGTON - Calling it an "imperfect" bill, President Barack Obama signed a $410 billion spending package Wednesday that includes billions in earmarks like those he promised to curb in last year's campaign. He insisted the bill must signal an "end to the old way of doing business." The massive measure supporting federal agencies through the fall contains nearly 8,000 pet projects, earmarked by sponsors though denounced by critics.
Obama defended earmarks when they're "done right," allowing lawmakers to direct money to worthy projects in their districts.

Lemme see if we got this right...he breaks a promise to end earmarks right in two, signs a bill laden with more earmarks than ever done before, and says it still somehow signals an end to the old way of doing business?

Does anyone else wonder if BHO read Orwell's 1984? He sure seems to have mastered newspeak.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29632177

[Objectivitees]

And didn't he promise to be out of Iraq, Guantanamo, and a recession by now? Will the people who elected him hold him to account when the time comes? Objectivitees thinks not.