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Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks (AP)
news.yahoo.com - 3/2/2009
Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks (AP)
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AP - 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.
foxnews.com - 3/2/2009
Obama Will Sign Spending Bill Despite Earmarks - Presidential Politics | Political News
— foxnews.com — WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge and sign a budget bill laden with... millions in lawmakers' pet projects, administration officials said. Administration budget chief Peter Orszag and White House chief of staff Rahm ... (more) Obama Will Sign Spending Bill Despite Earmarks - ...

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Does Obama Have a Double Standard on Earmarks?
time.com - 2/25/2009
Does Obama Have a Double Standard on Earmarks?
— time.com — If the Administration is serious about curbing the legislator pet projects, why are there 9,000 of them... in the new spending bill passed by the House? (more) Does Obama Have a Double Standard on Earmarks?

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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Mitchell Bard: Congressional Democrats Made a Big Mistake Including Earmarks in the Spending Bill

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Mitchell Bard: Congressional Democrats Made a Big Mistake Including Earmarks in the Spending Bill
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Democrats in Congress could really use a lesson in the art of politics from President Obama. Millions of Americans turned on their computers this morning and went to Yahoo!, only to find this headline: Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks Instead of being a positive headline about President Obama's bold effort to try and address the myriad problems facing the nation, the news was about the Democrats in Congress doing something stupid. They have handed the Republicans a legitimate issue to complain about, ...

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gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 3/4/2009 — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is tied to 16 earmarks worth $8.5 million dollars in the Obama budget bill that is being debated in the US Senate this week. The Seattle Times and Free Republic reported: Although President Obama has ...
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swamppolitics.com 3/6/2009 — by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, demanding honesty in budgeting and forbidding "earmarks'' for individual congressmen in the bills he is seeking, is likely to sign a multibillion-dollar spending bill which critics contend is riddled with ...
AP cited Republican criticism of the "more than 8,000 earmarks" in omnibus bill without noting they requested many of them — Media Matters for America - Latest Items
In reporting that "Republicans in Congress have called on [President] Obama to veto a pending $410 billion spending bill because it includes more than 8,000 earmarks," the Associated Press did not note that 40 percent of the earmarks in the bill were reportedly ...
Asserting that Dems "like their earmarks," CNN's King, Bash ignored own reporting on GOP-sponsored earmarks — Media Matters for America - Latest Items
On the March 1 edition of CNN's State of the Union , host John King asserted that "Republicans are saying hypocrisy" because President Obama "said he doesn't like earmarks," but intends to sign the omnibus appropriations bill "even though it has 8,000 or 9,000 of those earmarks." ...