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JUST WAIT FOR THE DEMS TO GET IN. YOU WILL SEE THE CRAP THEY WILL DO TO THIS COUNTRY! RUIN IT!!BUSH HAS PROTECTED THIS COUNTRY. THE DEMS DO NOTHING CONGRESS , OH BOY WHAT A BUNCH OF WINNERS.

so come down hard on the middle class for creating debt, to bad there isnt one of us thats spent a billion in our lives.

illegal and immoral war

I've been waiting for you left wingers for years to explain the illegal part of the war...the war was approved by congress therefore it's legal..I know you all are told to keep pushing this lie but come on how about you move on to a different lie, this one is getting old.

The spread of freedom and liberty should be a pet project for everyone. Maybe then we will know what peace on earth really means..

Or as Youssif's mother put:
"America is full of new things. Even the spoons are different, the toys. Everything is different, and it's something amazing. Iraq doesn't have these things. I am still scared to dream; I don't want to dream. Let me live day by day; it's easier."

Pet Projects? hmmm. What about the 70 billion to massage your giant ego in Iraq ?

Yes Dubya can call this session ending:

"ending on a high note,"

because he got 70 Billion after asking for 200 Billion for the Iraq/Afganistan effort.

The Democratic Congress is giving Dubya enough rope so he may hang himself in the end.
$555 Billion Spending bill for Bush to secure $70 Billion for Iraq.
Poor Dubya calls this "ending on a high note,"!!

Republicans BEWARE you are getting what you are asking for a spend, spend, spend BILL. Come 2008 you will have to answer the electrorate about your fiscal conservatism!

Go Hillary44 08! http://hillaryis44.org/

It does make you wonder what special projects are in that budget for it to take over 3000 page. Are there more bridges to no where and million dollar hippie museums?
Don't get me wrong, I voted for people that pledged not to fund the war and they let me down.

So as long as that lying coward in the white house got his money to protect Israel at American boys expense now he critizes congress!! Both of those lying bastards in the white house should be in prison along with most of the prostitutes of congress!!! We should pass a law making it legal to hunt politicans when they lie or act like cowards along with their draft age children!!!

well,i need 2.5 trillion dollars to invade all the countrys i want to own,i need 650 billion for my friends in the weapons design field, i need 100 billion for more toops,i need 500 billion to see if there is water on mars, i want nasa to get 50 billion,so they can research this,i want to give my friends in saudi 250 billion,and let there familys move to my kingdom,what i dont want is for gas prices to go down for my friends in the oil buss,and i dont want anyone to make a phone call unles i know about it,and i dont want anyone to have any money that i cant know about, i have my reasons and its not your right to know why!!! im the king, im a king i tell you!! no i wont take my medicine,im a king i tell ya,king king king,im king,over the world!!! me! and just me!!!i want to invade iran!!! and korea!! and ill have chavez put out!! and ill own pakistan and afganistan, then i might invade greece!! they may have weapons of mass destruction, maby even germany!!!!! im a king i tell you!!!i dont care how the banks messed up!! i dont care that people are homeless and losing jobs!!! im a king i dont have time for all that! let greespic greenspan the green giant or whoever run that!!i just want oil,oil oil oil,,,all over my body rich smooth crude, all over me, and i want to always be king!!!!!

does anyone even care what bush says? anyone?my objective is to embark on bankrupting a whole country, removing any chance of having a stable life, killing people i dont like,making it impossible to work,raising gas prices with my brothers in saudi, playing golf,starting a war and killing my fellow country men for no apparent reason,other than im the king,,,i mean president of the world,,,,i mean nation,and if thats not enough, i would like to control wire taps and any internets that will ever be made, i mean control the internet,further,i want the patriot act instilled in our constitution, and then i may want to go after iran, i think they have weapons of mass destruction buried in the sand somewhere!!! and then i want korea,well north korea,and then pakistan,and afganistand,can i go after germany? no! ok howabout greece,they may have weapons of mass destruction somewhere!ill send our troops to all the nations for i am the king!!!! take your meds pres baby! no one is listing any more,

Thank heavens that when the Republicans ran Congress, they never, ever had any pet projects that the President approved. Not a one. Nope.

Georgie your such hypocritical buffon
living in your little self important
and self rightous bubble. 70+ percent
of this country will dance a jig when your last day in office comes.Despite what you and your little group of friends and brown nosers say, you will not be looked upon in a favorable way in the future.Your delusion of grandure is just that, a delusion.Your whole term in office has been a delusion of self rightiousness and phonyness,propped up by those that take advantage of your need to be made to feel imporatant. One day you might realize what a dupe you have been and that your whole life has been a lie and you never have had the power or the great ideas you've been lead to think you have. Your an ignorant and
petty little man in a big empty suit.

Our Liar in Chief, affectionately known as King Pinocchio doesn't bring up the 10 trillion American Taxpayer deficits that we owe and the ordinary citizens and their grandchildren will pay for long after the Neo cons scuttle to their offshore accounts in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Paraguay and Argentina.
The Republicans held the purse strings immediately after taking over Congress in 1992 until last year. Since King Pinocchio took over he has more than doubled the nations deficits.
Remember the over 400 million dollars "Bridges to Nowhere"?
The War on Terror is quite different than the Iraqi Civil War Debacle where the Neo Con Parasites have wasted over 1 Trillion American Taxpayer dollars after you weigh in the related things.
King Pinocchio is a Pathological Liar who was bailed out Daddy Bush

People moan and grown about Iraq but Bush neer said he wasn't going to fund the war, but the Dems said they were going to stop with earmarks and again it seems they lied....yet nobody cares...that makes most of the bloggers here one sided!

Excuse me, Mr. President! You of all people are in no position to be lecturing anyone about pork you hypocrite. Unless the project is related to war spending, private contractors and investors, corporate (oil) profits, or further erosion of our civil rights you want nothing to do with it.

Merry Christmas, you dry, messianic drunk! I hope your family enjoys your egocentric rule during the holidays as much as the rest of the world. Nice thing is, we have only a little over a year more to put up with your illegal and corrupt politics.

Glad to see the kids are on this blog....Hey kiddies Iraq is not a pet project and there are real lives at stake,,,I know it is really tough for you mental midgets to put your mind around that but its the truth,,,by the way kiddies WE ARE WINNING IN IRAQ....no go outside and play let the adults play here

Bush is such a hypocrite!! He should go back to the archives of all the earmarks and spending his republican congress passed when they were still in control. And it is only a matter of time before Asia calls in the loans and takes control of this country...

Bush Pet Project:

HALLIBURTON

And it was funded well, dontacha think?!

Maybe the American citizen needs to do the same for congress as they do to uss. Paperboy- tack on another $50 to the senators bill, say it's a broken lawn Gnome add-on. Gas stations, have a special senator rate,(20$/gal) just like they have health/retirement benefits the rest of the country dont have. I they can "add on" to a bill, why cant anybody sending a bill to them. Strange how both partis oppose it, yet they are so incompetent to get it done.

Nothing like mortgaging America to the Chinese & other asian banks…

This type of comment is just stupid. Do you have any idea how deep Japan is in debt? Go read about what you speak of. Most of the debt relates to retirement funding...which is partly due to the extended lifetimes we all enjoy...and mostly due to Congress borrowing money from the Trust fund.

Do you own a US Savings Bond? You do? Why are you putting the country into debt? If you want to talk economics at least take the time to read about it first.

I wonder why anybody with sense could waste time on what this guy has to say. He does not remember anything. Or does he?

The W (once again) shows us the affects of his long-term brain damage caused by his past heavy alcohol and cocaine abuse.

W, please splash some cold water on your face, drink a strong cup of coffee, and stop listening to your boyfriend Dick.

So let me know if I am understanding the comments here. Because President Bush is spending billions in Iraq, it is OK for Congress to spend on the earmarks that they so forcefully promised to get rid of, and we should ignore the waste? Regardless of how you feel about the President, the wasteful spending of Congress is wrong.

Let's see you're comparing freeing a people from a dictator in the middle-east to funding insect studies in Portugal, that makes sense. I'm more then willing to pay extra taxes to help people in need around the world, I'm not willing to pay more to help a congressman get elected for "bringing home the bacon" to his state.

I remember when this Congress said they were going to end earmarks. HA! They also said they were going to end the Iraq war, raise taxes, and cut spending.

The only thing this Congress did was fail. Although, all there false promises did get them elected.
Posted By Bulldog, Tennessee : December 20, 2007 12:56 pm

Thank you Bulldog!

How about chastising congress for the 6 previous years budgets? Fact is–although projects are up–actual pork spending is down 30% from the last GOP budget. I say we are on track...with 30% reductions in spending, in a few years all the pork will be gone. This is a sound strategy, we will achieve budgetary victory!! Anybody that doesn't support the heroic measures are congress is taking with it's long-term strategy–and an immediate 30% dollar reduction–is un-American.

Sound familiar?

How everyone is suddenly against this horrible man now, when only 3 years ago he convinced half the country to vote for him... for a second term!... just blows my mind.

Hey- average American: where were you four years ago?

The folks who voted for Bush in '04, and now count themselves among those who "disapprove of his presidency" are among the dumbest people out there...

At least the die-hard Bushies aren't stupid, only evil.

Average American- What information do you have now that you lacked 4 years ago? Or have you only just recently finally learned to read and write.

The Congress spending tax dollars on pork barrel projects. The President getting the money to keep fighting the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. Taxes on the "middle class" being lowwerd. Sounds like business as usual in DC to me. Oh, almost forgot, the budget is over three months late. Yeah, the Congress and the President really worked hard to get it out on time.

I keep wondering when the people of this country are going to wake up and realize what a wreck the politicans in DC are making of this nation. When are the people of the US going to wake and see how lobbyists and special interest groups have bought off every member of Congress. When are the people of this nation going to realize how much party politics have made a mockery of our government.

These aren't rhetorical questions, it's simple fact. Our country is dying and noone knows or cares.

the only thing this war criminal is interested in spending tax dollars on is war, nothing else, just war war war.

I don't think fighting terrorism at its roots and keeping terrorism from dawning upon our shores is wasting money. That's the good part of the spending bill, although no one wants even one American casualty in that war on terror. Thanks to those in the military who have volunteered to give up their tomorrows for our todays. We owe you our lives.

What about the earmarks that the Republicans passed from with there one party rule from 2001 to last year? It was far more than that of the Democrats. Why is he talking with his Billion dollar war that so far has benefited only his financial backers.

Every man, woman, and child in America owes about $30,000, I have read, to pay off the debt from the war in Iraq.

Bush was right to scold Congress for blowing more of our cash on non-essentials, but it would have been better for him to have done so in years past when members of his own party might have listened to him.

Everyone criticizes the other party for their own bad habits.

The amazing thing to me is that about 30% of Americans still support Bush. Who are those people and what can they be thinking?

Oh, give me a break! Bush has already pushed this country to the point of bankruptcy by borrowing money from China in order to pay for his war! His sense of 'fiscal responsibility' has everything to do with making sure that the corporate elite keep milking the public dry, and absolutely nothing to do with ensuring the safety of the country. Enough, already! If Bush wants to show some concern about spending, he should stop blowing our money on his nonsensical war!

This is the same chump who had an open checkbbok with a Republican controlled Congress. And N-O-W he wants to act as though he wants to take care of the middle class.......welllll he did take care of them... he ruined them.
Georgie boy....without your old cronies you are useless.

Keep it up and keep those loyal Repubs right with you and in 08 the Dems get a landslide victory.

I find it funny when neo-cons comment about dems spending us into bankruptcy. GWB has spent more $$$ than slcik willie could have ever dreamed of. The national debt is out of hand, all while we started moving in the positive direction in the 90's. Hell, even "Reganomics" tripled the national deficit.

It doesn't even matter what this idiot says anymore.

If he says Congress sucked, then they must have done a hell of a job.

Comparing our Congress to Iraq's just proves that, if he wasn't president, about 100 million people would be waiting outside the White House to kick his brainless criminal ass to a pulp.

As for the Dems, you blew it again. You gave idiot boy MORE money to spend, to kill more American troops, to continue a lost, illegal and immoral war.

How come Bush did not chastise the republican last year when they had more than three times as many pet projects and cost 4 times as much money????
Did he forget how to write VETo??????

No money for children's health, but plenty for bunker busters, tribunals, and prisons for torturing people. The new USA.

Iraq spending votes:

Bush 48
Harry 0

Look at all the lefties making excuses for a failed Congress. The point is these Democrat numbskulls promised change in the "NEW" Congress: Longer work-weeks...NOT; End of the Iraq War...NOT; End of earmarks...NOT; End of partisanship...NOT. Hey, how about holdings these schmucks acoountable, instead of enabling them?

This jerk should never think of doing wrong after putting our country in the situation he has. I too am disappointed in this congress, I don't believe they can even spell IMPEACHMENT, and I know they can't count the reasons they have for bringing the motion forward. Nancy, Harry and Teddy, three blind mice.

"How can Bush talk about anybody being a wasteful spender after all the money that he has wasted in the war in Iraq."

Congress allocates the funding for the war, not the President. People love to flap their jaws about Bush spending trillions in Iraq. CONGRESS is spending the money to fund the war in Iraq, not the President.

The omnibus spending bill is over 3,000 pages long. There isn't a single person who knows everything in that bill and yet Congress pushed it through. Nancy Pelosi should be ashamed of herself for lying to all the people who voted for her.

A Republican president that loves spending money on war and a Democrat congress that love spending money on earmarks they told the taxpayers they would eliminate once they came to power.

Spending taxpayer money is something both parties LOVE to do!

He failed to mention that the two biggest pet projects were from actual Republicans. What a joker!

A little hypocritical for Bush to bash congress for funding pet projects and not doing away with earmarks, due to his own "pet project" in Iraq. True fact, indeed.

However- He is right. It is true that the democrats promised a lot of things, such as doing away with earmarks, pork, pet projects tucked deep within long and verbose bills, yada yada its the same old crap that keeps getting people elected to office in Washington.... They have not stopped this garbage which corrupts our political system. When are people going to realize that Democrats and Republicans are cut from the same cloth? They are merely two different ends of the same rope which has been carefully crafted into a noose and slipped around the throat of America.

Shame on you, Washington.

The biggest earmark in that new spending bill is the extra $70 billion for Iraq, foisted on us by the remnant Bushie [R]-bots in congress who repeatedly abuse the 60%-vote-to-proceed rules in the senate to block progress in this country. What a hypocrite the disaster-in-charge is.

And just where was all this concern about earmarks when the [R]s were in charge of the biggest increase in earmarks in our nation's history? And now that the [D] congress is moving towards improving that sad record, all of a sudden we hear shrilly from the Rove-bots 'it isn't enough!' You so-called conservatives are laughable. You don't even know what the word means, and it certainly doesn't describe the current [R] president and the recent [R] congresses YOU elected to office.

You toothless good-ole boys are pathetic. I'm voting [D] this election, and I'll put my conservative credentials up against any of you...but remember there's a difference between conservative and fascist, conservative and [R], conservative and right-wing. You boys on the 'right' have been listening to and obeying the right-wing spin so long, you actually believe it!

Glad to see all you Dems voted for a bunch of people that are doing the exact same thing you all complained the Repubs were doing. Congrats, we live in a country of mindless drolls who think politics is all us vs them. If anyone had any cahones they would do what they believe is right, not what some rich heads are telling them to do.

This guy should keep his opinions to himself. His pet project is WAR and he just got 70 billion on top of a trillion previously to fund his pet project.
My Christmas wish is that his rotten term was over.

One quote I heard was that they had included earmarks for (insert gasp here) museums. I guess George thinks the money is better spent killing Iraqi civilians and spying on Americans without warrants.

I guess my one word post did not make so I will add some words to my statement, hypocrite.

It would be nice to one day see an ammendment to the constitution that makes it unconstitutional to add items not related to the specific bill. That way the transportation, military, and other bills would actually contain what they should contain in the first place. Anyone who thinks that the founding fathers meant for things to run the way they do obviously doesn't have a clue as to what they stood for and believed.

There are two problems with what is going on; Bush is asking too much for his idea of foreign policy (killing people until they agree with him) and bad domestic priorities. The other is that there is not enough power to force Congress to limit the pork in the budget. Once the president and the congress (both houses) realize they both need to agree on the goals and limit what they can take home to their constituents, then we will start to have a smaller budget and can pay down the debt.

At least the earmark money will likely end up going to some businesses other than KBR or Blackwater

Hey George, just sign the bill so you get your war money....that's about all you can do anymore. If you get bored, try out for the Aflack duck stunt double (just don't act lame).

The President didn't seem to mind 6 years of GOP earmarks were they not "wasteful spending"?

I find it really disturbing that this President can think pouring money into Halliburton to fix what was destroyed in Iraq is OK but, feeding starving Americans is Wasteful!

This is the United States of America not the United States of Defense Contractors!

Hmmmm...
I bet none of the members of congress have a pet project nearly as expensive as Bush's pet project – the war in Iraq.

What about the pet Iraq project ?

What's that costing us?

Nothing like mortgaging America to the Chinese & other asian banks...

Wake me up when its Nov 2008...

How about the Billions (future) taxpayers are spending by continuing to fund Bush's pet project in Iraq???

I guess that doesn't count?

This guy really lives in his own reality doesn't he?

This Bush should shut his mouth and crawl back under the rock he came out from. Congress should be ashamed of themselves for giving one cent to fund this war. We have urgent needs at home for that 70B he is flushing down the toilet in Iraq. This administrations lies have caused the death of innocent Americans and Iraqis, and when a lie causes you countrymen to fall you are a TRAITOR.
This administration has cause the country to fall.

Democrats and republicans are different sides of the same coin. Dems increase domestic spending and Repub increase foreign spending.

Either way the government spends, debt grows, more money is printed, inflation increases, and our savings are devalued. Thanks Congress for stealing more of my money.

Chill George. Nobody listens to you anymore.

How can Bush talk about anybody being a wasteful spender after all the money that he has wasted in the war in Iraq.

I remember when this Congress said they were going to end earmarks. HA! They also said they were going to end the Iraq war, raise taxes, and cut spending.

The only thing this Congress did was fail. Although, all there false promises did get them elected.

It guts the border fence, he gets what he wants and still leaves two Border Patrol Agents in jail.

It has 9,000 earmarks (pork) in it.

He will make some noise, but he will sign it

Gutless..........

Thank you to Congress for helping our country stay the course and for supporting our troops.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and Godspeed to all our men and women in the military who are far far away from home – your sacrifice is not forgotten!

And yet some people still wonder why the US Dollar is losing its footing and the economy isn't doing so well?

This man has put a $40K noose around every Americans neck and sold the contract on our lives to China and Saudi Arabia.

Does Bush think like most Americans that that seventy billion just pops out of peoples paychecks each week? Bush and the "support the troops" Congress are like a crazed teenager let loose with Daddy's credit card. Except this time it is the younger generation that has to pay the bill.

I guess Bush and Cheney shouldn't be worried, eh? They'll just shack up in the last reserve available to them with Osama in a cave in Northern Afghanistan after January 2009.

Why didn't he chastise the republican controlled congress for the past 7 years? There the ones who have done the damage.

This guy is an idiot and should be impeached!

That's rich. Bush chastising congress for pork barrel spending. How much was approved for your good for nothing war in Iraq Mr. President? As a life long republican, I hate pork barrel spending written into bills and budgets as much as the next person. But Mr. President, the amount of money you have wasted in Iraq is appalling. What's the old saying about people that live in glass houses? Mr. Bush, you should be ashamed!

11,331 earmarks in the appropriations bill. That's a 426 percent increase over last year.

As usual, dem promises are worthless..

And the war isn't Bush's pet project? Maybe one day we will wake up and realize that it is all just a bad dream since we shouldn't be in a war. Congress is the only power with the authority to declare war!

All I can say is Bush needs to look in the mirror and ask himself about his own pet project, which is lethal.

'Pork' should be totally outlawed. It is nothing more than bribery for campaign contributions. Very corrupt. Both sides of the isle are extremely guilty. Maybe McCain could fix? How can anybody, with any sense at all, believe anything these corrupt politicians say? However, there is some good that comes of 'Pork'. It does stimulate the local economy of the constituent to a degree, and that isn't all bad. We can always use the jobs. The money involved stays in circulation and creates additional incomes and expenditures. But at the expense of a 'Balance Budget'? I wonder.

Who cares what this man thinks.

Sounds like our Country was able to make some progress. This is GOOD

ANYBODY CATCH THE MOMENT WHERE THE MENSA, IN REFERRING TO FUEL EFFICIENCY, STATED THAT CARS WILL HAVE TO ABIDE BY THE STANDARD OF 35 "MPH"?

He's a pure village idiot and the darling of the neoclowns!!!

hypocrite

I have to disagree with Bush in one regard–when Republicans ran Congress he signed just about everything they passed, which usually were filled with pet projects. However, he is right about one thing: Democrats acted holier-than-thou while seeking office, saying they would end all the earmarks and pork-barrel spending that Republicans were doing. The Dems are doing the exact same thing–there's a word for that: "hypocrisy." Can't say I'm surprised.

Isn't the whole war in Iraq a pet project?

I read somewhere that the amount of funding for pet projects in this bill was roughly half what the Republical-led congress approved last year. I can't remember where I read it though.

But where was he when his fellow Republicans were doing the same, if not worse with their bridges to nowhere when they were in the majority? This remark from Bush is typical republican hypocracy. Because he had no problem signing off on his republican budgets that excalated the budget defecit so that we are now so in debt to countries like China, that we have not leverage in world affairs. Bush's borrow and spend budgetting has destroyed our national security.

And before the democrats controlled congress, was Bush out there chastising the republicans? Nope... because they were birds of a feather! I will be so happy in Jan 2009 when he's no longer in the White House. Maybe then and only then can we get the country back to the people it belongs to!

Now Now- Mr President. The Democrats basically caved and gave you everything you asked for: No-Strings funding of the War and an Omnibus Bill set to your spending cap.

Just say Thank You.

(And I'm a Bush-Supporter!)