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The American people have been lied to, and yes, even our beloved President. How can you stand before us and say NO earmarks, Nancy Pelosi even laughed out loud when that was said.

And Republicans crying for weeks over the stimulus bill earmarks yet on the very next bill they own 4000 of the 9000 earmarks in the Omnibus bill. Jindal lied when he said the Republican party realized going along with big spending was a mistake, OH MY GOD, are you kidding me?

I am disgusted by ALL politicians, not ONE is fit to take our hard earned money!

Okay Obama here's your chance to prove what you say is true. Veto this bill that is full of pork.
We the American people are getiing tired of the "Give me mo money, mo money, mo money" crap.

For all the non-listening, non-thinking sheeple out there,,,,,where do you think the money to pay back all these "stimulus' packages is going to come from,,,,,hmmmmm????

You think we are hurting now??? Just wait until the bill comes due, so much for the "95% of Americans won't pay higher taxes (rather, will get a tax cut, as he said during the election). It will be a tax increase in some form, gas tax, road tax, VAT, sales tax or something, it might just not be an income tax so he can keep his "campaign promise".

The antichrist is sending this country to he!! in a handbasket in a big hurry, or at least the same way as the roman empire went. Well maybe he is not the antichrist, maybe he just has a piece of the spear of destiny like hitler had.

Hmm...8% government year over year spending increase – and between $4B and $8B of pork depending on who you want to believe. Didn't we vote Bush out? What's happening to all the fiscal responsibility and no pork being hyped by the White House? Yep, this gives me plenty of hope and change I can believe in.

More earmarks? Didn't I hear our President say no more earmarks last night?

House GOP,

Kiss my toenails!

Nothing new going on in their camp.

Pet projects are just that. If the Republicans were in power they would have pet projects. But they aren't so the Democrats have there's. Pet projects are wasteful. Both sides have them. Any Democrat that tells you different is a liar. Both sides are crooks.

"Pet Projects" in Dem code means payment for votes. Another promise Obama "screwed-up" on.
This bill only has 9,000 ear marks and Obama said none, that he would go line by line and take out ALL ear marks.
Something else he will not deliver on.

Well there goes the working together and helping the country. The republican donothings are all talk and take no action and have no idea of how to work with others. Please get these guys out office and put in people who actually do care and want to help their fellow citizens.

Got to love those pet projects. Just what we need is another bridge to no where.

The GOP still doesn't get the fact that they have ZERO credibility on anything, war, budgets, foreign policy, diplomacy, intelligence, FEMA, disasters, justice, torture, honesty or playing well with others. America has begun to gauge a negative Republican response to ANYTHING as a damn good sign that it must be the right thing to do!!! Seriously, somebody please help the GOP pull their heads out!!!

Much to the chagrin of many hardcore GOPs, this bill is ambitiously aimed at attackin' all ills of the economic tragedies, as claimed by the darin' Dems. Now that will, forsooth, be one heck of an ambition, dear folks! Let's have a nail biting and cliff hangin' duel between these 2 rivals.

"spending bill"? what's in it? salaries and operational budgets? oh my, I guess that must be "pork"...after all, we don't want there to be ANY government when a Dem is in office or, if there is one, we certainly want it to be hamstringed and unsuccessful. BYE BYE GOP.

I'm disappointed with my GOP. My party is becoming a party of NO instead of ideas.

Oh, Sniffit, you make me laugh everyday!

If this "Pet Projects" are design to stimulate the economy, either by generating jobs, cleaning our environment, reducing oil dependency, etc, they should be a part of the Budget. Any means needed to counter the economic downturn are welcome. All those malcontent oponents to our new administration, should seriously think of our country first, as they so fervently claimed, during the last campaign.
It was so refreshing to see last night, a brilliant man at the reigns of our country, what a change!!!

I just hope when obama lets us in on hes plan, he doesn't take up all of tv for the night. I couldn't watch it last night, and thats all anyone talked about today!

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THOSE REPUBLICANS ARE MAD, MAD, AND MAD. THEY CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE...WOW...AND THEY WANT TO GET MY VOTE? I WOULD RATHER GOO GOO GA GA BEFORE VOTING FOR THEM AGAIN. BY THE WAY, JINDAL BOBBY IS TOO COLD FOR LOUISIANA, HE BETTER THINKS TWICE BEFORE SAYING SOMETHING SO HE DOES NOT LOOK CLUELESS.

I am a Democrat and I have to agree with the Republicans on this one. Why have another spending bill "to help counter the economic downturn," we just passed a $787 billion bill that does just that.

This earmark-laden Omnibus bill represents an opportunity for President Obama to fulfill one of his campaign promises by demanding the removal of all the pet projects and other pork contained in this spending bill. The Bill's supporters are all crying that this bill should have been passed last September, as if that's an excuse to go forward with more excess spending. It's time to step up Mr. President and rid this bill of wasteful spending.

Another $410 billion rammed through by the democrats. No surprise there.

To the democrats with common sense I must ask. How does it feel to know that in barely ONE MONTH Obama and the democrats in congress have already increased the national debt by almost the same amount that Bill Clinton did in EIGHT YEARS?

Will you all continue to blindly follow him?

This is all we're going to hear from the GOP for the next few years. If their even still around!! LOL

THE GOP IS ONE BIG FATTY WHINNY PORKY FACTION

Check this one out. Yes it keeps the government going, but Pelosi and company really larded this one up after just passing the porkulus package two weeks ago. But as Chuck Schumer says, no one really cares. Hope they keep that attitude going until the next election.

Democrats the party of pork. They will spend us into a depression! You Democrats or more properly Lummox will destroy this great county unless you grow a brain.

How many pet projects are in this bill? I heard over 9,000. It will be a true leader to be able to veto this kind of spending.

Obama said last night that "he gets it". Maybe, but the democrats in the house certainly don't "get it". We not them but WE the Americans who gave them their jobs are losing ours. Do they honestly think we care about funding their earmarks? We are mad as hornets! I don't think they will have jobs in 2010 if they keep spending our hard earned tax dollars like a drunken sailor on leave.

Congress you better "get it" or you won't last after 2010? I'd rather have a fiscal rethuglican in office than a wild spending democrud who doesn't care about me, my children or my grandchildren.

This is ironic, especially considering the fact that part of the pork is the staff for a majority Rep. Congress that no longer exists, and the GOP are insisting on keeping the same staff levels. How much is that one costing again?

I guess what they really mean by "small government" is really "no government"...I wouldn't be suprised if they just want the states controlling everythign so they can at least turn some of them into theocratic segregationist wingnut utopias.

We as a country are screwed.

gee...where's the 5 days of sunshine? I bet the budget includes payraises for government workers...did any layoff occur? Because, as Obama says, we all have to make sacrifices...what a load of crap. First they rape the country for a trillion, and oh, by the way, we need another 410 billion....so any pork cut from the Stimupork bill, will covertly find it's way into this package...good job, libs! That's real transparent! That's Change and Hope!

Imagine the federal government ONLY doing what the Constitution allows it to do... build the roads, defend the shores/borders and deliver the mail.

...versus the unconstitutional power it has usurped from the states to be all things to all people, do all things for all people. The federal government has basically become Santa Claus, promising to deliver all sorts of goodies it has zero Constitutional authority to provide.

You want a small government budget? You want ZERO deficits? Simple. Build the roads, defend the shores, deliver the mail and NOTHING ELSE. Stop trying to be all things to all people.

In only two minutes I found 4 lies pertaining to this. If things were beyond his control, he should not have promised them. I believed him.

more earmarks as opposed to: "Barack Obama is committed to returning earmarks to less than $7.8 billion a year, the level they were at before 1994."—Obama's "The Change We Need In Washington"

"Obama will reinstate pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budget rules, so that new spending or tax cuts are paid for by spending cuts or new revenue elsewhere."—Obama's Blueprint for Change

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Bipartisan support.

"Pet projects" in GOP code speak just means it was something the Dems support that the GOP does not. They'd just as easily have put their own "pet projects" in the bill if they had the supermajority. Seriously...we should set up wind turbines in front of the GOP's section of the House and RNC's headquarters, because these people are nothign but a source of hot air.

There they go again!!!!!! Spending money we don't have.

MORE MONEY MORE MONEY MORE MONEY.

IN 2012 Barack is still going to be blaming President Bush.

This is a joke. At what point does he take responsibility for all the spending.

There is a claim of 1,000's of earmarks in this bill by BOTH parties.
Why are they there at all.

I cant spend money I dont have so why does the goverment continue.

Ahh the rest of the pork that did not make it into the stimulus bill from Botox Barbie and the congressional chimps.

"They criticized the addition of several billion dollars worth of earmarks designed to support pet projects in individual lawmakers' districts."

Translation: the GOP mischaracterized several billion dollars allocated in the bill as "pork" in order to perpetuate their we-can't-stand-that-we're-not-in-control temper tantrum.

2010: the year one party politics was born in America.

I'm not even going to comment on the GOP. It's getting tiresome. I think they love attention.

"House GOP leaders said the bill's spending increases are too large. They criticized the addition of several billion dollars worth of earmarks designed to support pet projects in individual lawmakers' districts. Democrats defended the size of the bill, saying it was necessary to help counter the economic downturn. "

This sounds like it will be a recurring theme. I think both sides are right. Dems should eliminate earmarks and not use the stressed economy as an opportunity to slip in their pet projects. But Republicans shouldn't be negative just for the sake of representing the opposition.

dimocrats again adding pork to the bill. always amazes me when the dimocrats gain an upperhand in congress, that they will do things to squander it away. They definately have the right party mascot!

The GOP needs to clean house and start a new. These whinners are so narrow minded that it's pathetic. it would be nice if the entire GOP would just go away, far, far, away I for one am sick of those losers.

Here piggy, piggy! Gotta wonder how many billions go to Nancy's must have projects.
I thought Barry said there'd be no more earmarks? Oh wait, that's right, the fine print says, "Statement doesn't apply to Democrats." Oh well, the screwing of America continues.

I smell bacon

Hey dems!
We have our chance to show "statesmanship" and win back even more of the voters confidence.
DROP THE EARMARKS ALREADY! You won't loose re-election for not getting that bike path or whatever put in the budget, honest!!

If it does have earmarks Obama has promised to VETO it. Let's see if he is a man of his word. I'm betting not.

Well, here we go again–spend,spend,spend! $1trillion ++++