" . . . President Obama used his weekly address this weekend to
support an earmark ban as well. He also issued a statement Monday
afternoon praising McConnell’s “decision to join me and members of both
parties who support cracking down on wasteful earmark spending.”
Join President Obama in fighting earmarks! He has fought them ever
since, well, never. This is a guy who sought millions and millions in
earmarks when he was a Senator — including, famously, “a request for $1
million in federal funding in 2006 for a new pavilion at the University
of Chicago Hospitals, where his wife, Michelle Obama, was a vice
president at the time.”
Oddly enough, “Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago
Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped
from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the
Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.” Almost as if
the administrators had an inkling that having her there might help them
cash in!
It didn’t work, by the way, despite Barry’s best efforts. The earmark
didn’t go through, and her salary was promptly reduced back to $273,618.
And that, I suppose, must be when he suddenly decided he hated earmarks?
If my wife can’t cash in, then screw everything.
This story somehow doesn’t make it into the L.A. Times article. Which
then goes on to quote Obama as follows:
“I look forward to working with Democrats and Republicans to not
only end earmark spending, but to find other ways to bring down our
deficits for our children,” he said.
I have an idea for how to bring down our deficits, Mr. President. Stop
spending money like it’s going out of style. Stop passing stimulus
packages costing hundreds of billions of dollars that aren’t needed.
Stop passing huge socialist reforms that cost a mint.
None of which is mentioned in the article either.
Oh, and just one last thing: senior White House advisor David Axelrod
said on Sunday morning that Obama probably has no choice but to sign a
slew of earmarks into law. Because, you know, “one of the problems is
that these things come embedded in bills that have to be signed.” “Have”
to be signed, he said.
That didn’t make it in the article either! Wow."