This is how you define progress, folks. This is that long-anticipated, hoped-for change. No longer do we get just an “Oops!”; instead the mantra echoing high and low has become: “This is last year’s business.”
Taxpayers for Common Sense has identified 8,570 earmarks in the latest $410 billion spending bill – totaling some $7.7 billion; Democrats say the number is $3.8 billion.
What’s a few billion between bipartisan friends, eh?
Apparently not much. The White House reported today that Mr. No-Earmarks Transparency (my middle name is “Fiscal Responsibility”) himself, that fairweather barometer of hope and change, President Obama, intends to sign the bill into law.
Once again the President has reneged one of his pet, never-ending campaign promises, using the flimsy excuse that this is “last year’s business” (Peter Orszag) and this is “last year’s business” (Rahm Emanuel) to absolve himself of living up to the standards he himself set.
There’s a four-letter word for this, folks.
L – I – A – R