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B.O. Signs 'Imperfect' Spending Bill Away From Cameras

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Posted by Fred 2009-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 The buck starts here?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-12 04:51|| 2009-03-12 04:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, yeah, $500 billion is a more perfect number. I see his point.

/sarc off

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-03-12 04:59|| 2009-03-12 04:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Setting up an alibi for when the backlash comes?

Posted by Ebbomotle Untervehr4254 2009-03-12 05:49|| 2009-03-12 05:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Another fine example of transparency.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-12 07:22|| 2009-03-12 07:22|| Front Page Top

#5 BOSTON More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.

The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute.

The bill also includes $22 million to expand facilities at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and $5 million more for a new gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a park system in downtown Boston named after Kennedy's mother and built on land opened up by the Big Dig highway project.

Posted by Beavis 2009-03-12 08:39|| 2009-03-12 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Imperfect? You pork American Taxpayers and no courtesy reach around?

9000 earmarks - Now, if my proposal had passed where at the end of each month the President has 8 working hours to sign, or at least initial, every pork ear in the spending bill. Tha is 1,125 signitures per hour, or almost 19 per minute. This should be done on CSPAN and webcast; no help or rubber stamping. If these projects are so important show us how, Obama, how you are willing to suffer writer's cramp in order to save America.

How much are they going to spend before 2010? $4 trillion? If 350 million people, not taxpayers but people, in the USA then that is $11,500 per person.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-03-12 10:42|| 2009-03-12 10:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Signing in private can only be so he can hide from it and distance himself later. He will blame all this on Bush and hide from the true facts.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-03-12 11:20|| 2009-03-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 "If he's the messiah, how come he's making us suffer for his sins?"
-local guy

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-03-12 12:36|| 2009-03-12 12:36|| Front Page Top

#9 he's signing in private because he's a coward and knows this bill stinks. He doesn't want ads showing that big ol shit-eating grin while porking up the budget against his promises. "Just words"

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-12 19:20|| 2009-03-12 19:20|| Front Page Top

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