sayanythingblog.com - 2/13/2009
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Just before he took the oath and became President, Barack Obama promised Americans that there would be no earmarks in his proposed stimulus package :
President-elect Barack Obama has met with his team of economic advisers in Washington and said the government must get its own fiscal house in ...
sweetness-light.com - 2/15/2009
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From YouTube: 7 Broken Promises in Record Time
1. Make government open and transparent. 2. Make it...
"impossible" for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects. 3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional ...
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Stimulus Bill Broke 7 Obama Promises
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 2/13/2009
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Democrats broke another promise today. They promised on
Tuesday to post the Stimulus Bill online for 48...
hours before a vote. They even voted unanimously to do this: Every democrat agreed to this. But, the stimulus bill is still not online. And, ...
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Dems Break Promise-- Won't Post Stimulus Bill Online for ...
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Look Ma, No Earmarks: Even in Passage Democrats Fail at Framing Stimulus
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... . Conservative bloggers are seizing on the site as evidence of ridiculous pork barrel projects that are supposedly included in the bill. One blog entry titled "Obama Broke His Promise on Earmarks in the Stimulus" lists some pretty flagrant pet projects: dog parks, a disc golf course, a little league parking lot, each dutifully linking to StimulusWatch. The problem is that StimulusWatch lists state projects that were submitted in the U.S. Conference of Mayors' report for federal consideration. The projects are not in the stimulus bill; they're more of a wish list from local ...
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From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum On his second day in Washington, President-elect Obama met with his budget team and promised no earmarks will be in the stimulus plan. "We are going to ban all earmarks -- the process by which individual ...
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