Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Mainstream Media Inventing Earmark Promises

Andrea Mitchell just said that President Obama made a campaign pledge to ban all earmarks. When in the hell did that happen? Seriously, can anybody back up her statement because from what I remember it was John McCain who kept harping on earmarks, not then Senator Obama. In point of fact it was Obama who pointed out how little earmarks are when you consider the universe of government spending. And Andrea Mitchell isn't alone with running with this theme. Man this kills me. The mainstream media makes shit like this up just so they can bash President Obama for backing out of a campaign pledge that he never actually made. Is anybody going to correct the record?

2 comments:

  1. NO.

    Another blindingly obvious answer to a simple question.

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  2. sgw, decided to do a bit of research on all this earmark tripe - this is from the campaign web page. Someone tonight - may have been Shuster pointed out that the 1994 level is something like half million less than in this budget. Too lazy to look up numbers, but I wish someone would shove them down McCain's throat.

    http://www.barackobama.com/issues/fiscal/

    >Cut Pork Barrel Spending: Obama introduced and passed bipartisan legislation that would require more disclosure and transparency for special-interest earmarks. Obama and Biden believe that spending that cannot withstand public scrutiny cannot be justified. Obama and Biden will slash earmarks to no greater than year 1994 levels and ensure all spending decisions are open to the public. <

    Ivy_B (Last time I tried to post a comment my Wordpress id from Swampland didn't work, so I'm using Anon - don't want to lose all of the above.)

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