Obama Will Sign Spending Bill Despite Earmarks:

President Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge against congressional earmarks and sign a budget bill laden with millions in lawmakers' pet projects, administration officials said.

The House last week passed the measure that would keep the government running through Sept. 30, when the federal budget year ends. Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group, identified almost 8,600 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion; Democrats say the number is $3.8 billion.
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Obama's top hands assigned responsibility to their predecessors and President George W. Bush. Blaming Bush-era proposals for deficits, Obama wanted to set up his own budget that would start Oct. 1, which he proposed last week with a bold goal of cutting the deficit by half within his four-year term.
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"First, this is a $1.7 trillion deficit he inherited. Let's be clear about that. We inherited this deficit and we inherited $4 trillion of new debt," Emanuel said. "That is the facts."

Wow. Just wow. Bush left office with a $459 billion deficit from last year. Obama signs an absolutely massive "stimulus" bill, a health insurance expansion and a massively bloated budget, all authored by Democrats, and it is somehow a "fact" that it is all Bush's fault. While breaking another campaign promise along the way. What unbelievable double-speak from Rahm Emanuel. This just goes to show that Obama is letting Congressional Democrats dictate the agenda, not leading with his agenda. Hope this is the change America wanted.