Woohoo!! House Approves Another $410 BILLION (speech, dollars, elect, money)

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by allydriver

People do understand and are outraged at the hypocritical response of a President who ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility,outspending his predecessor in a matter of days with the same old behaviours...on steroids

There will be less whining if more people could differentiate between fiscal responsibility and fiscal conservativeness.

I'm a sucker for responsibility, accountability and pragmatism and can't stand ideologues who believe in one size fits all.

[MovingForward]

Originally Posted by allydriver

People do understand and are outraged at the hypocritical response of a President who ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility,outspending his predecessor in a matter of days with the same old behaviours...on steroids

Yes. He ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. How was he to know that the economy was about to crash? Nobody knew.

You people are just looking for a reason to hate him.

[Kootr]

Among the earmarks was one sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., who secured $200,000 for a “tattoo removal violence outreach program” in Los Angeles.

[JennySquirrel]

Don't forget the money for ordor control for hogs in Iowa

[Kootr]

Originally Posted by JennySquirrel

Don't forget the ordor control for hogs in Iowa

And about 9,000 more wasteful earmarks we cannot afford now.

[saganista]

I suppose everyone understands that the $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill is not new money. It simply replaces the 2008 numbers currently authorized in the continuing resolution with 2009 numbers from this bill.

[ParkTwain]

Is the 6 year old recurring "emergency" war funding for Iraq still miscategorized under the Obama bill?

[Christian Arab]

Originally Posted by MovingForward

Yes. He ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. How was he to know that the economy was about to crash? Nobody knew.

You people are just looking for a reason to hate him.

Stop playing dumb, old man McCain would of won if not for the economy was beginning to crash.

We don't hate him, we just don't see how you bots still believe in him, I mean this is a man that promised no earmarks during his speech last night, yet his spending contains plenty, so where is the outrage?

[BigJon3475]

@ twice the inflation rate for increased spending...

Obama to ask for 634 billion dollars over 10 years for healthcare on Yahoo! Health

[MovingForward]

Originally Posted by Christian Arab

Stop playing dumb, old man McCain would of won if not for the economy was beginning to crash.

We don't hate him, we just don't see how you bots still believe in him, I mean this is a man that promised no earmarks during his speech last night, yet his spending contains plenty, so where is the outrage?

No bill gets out of Congress without riders and/or earmarks. Ever.

Grow up.

And where's the "outrage" over the past 8 years of neo-con trashing of the country? Never hear much about that from the Repubs. Wonder why.