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Excerpts from Harrop's March 12, 2009 column, "Obama Takes a Dive on Earmarks":
President Obama has vowed to curb the number of earmarks, also known as pork, in future spending bills. A commendable promise, had his number been zero. Unfortunately, the president wants to deal with an unsavory dish by cutting the portion size.
Earmarks are pet projects that lawmakers stuff into spending bills. There are 9,000 earmarks in the omnibus appropriations bill [NOTE: THIS IS UP FROM 8,500 OF THEM TWO WEEKS AGO] about which Obama gave his pork talk on Wednesday.
Democratic leaders are right that "this is last year's business." And it's true that earmarks made up less than 2 percent of the $410 billion spending bill.
But earmark spending is not only about money. It is about enabling fundamentally corrupt practices in the budgeting process.
I think it disingenuous that Harrop gives Obama and the Democrats a pass on "last year's business," for two reasons.
One, "last year's business" is "George W. Bush's administration's business," which all Democrats are so speedy to condemn, yet Obama and the Dems are continuing W's business a year later? Come on. You just won the White House and Congress promising not to be anything at all like George. You can't have it both ways.
Two, this excuse would never have held an ounce of water with anyone, media or public, had a Republican administration gained the White House this year. Double-standard city: It's OK if I do it, not OK if you do it.
You remember Reid. He spearheaded an earlier pork-laden stimulus bill ONE YEAR AGO. See that link for details and why not write Sen. Reid to ask why that stimulus bill failed and demand to know why exactly we should trust him on this one when it also is overladen with pork.
Harrop stings, as well she should:
Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid likes the status quo on pork. Waving the flag of American security, a spokesman for the Nevada Democrat recently told The Washington Post that defense-related earmarks "improve critical national defense programs."
No, they don't. Every defense-related earmark goes to something the Defense Department didn't ask for -- and is usually directed to some contractor back in the district. That money could have gone to actually enhancing national security.
Obama's call for still greater transparency on earmarking is a useless gesture. Most lawmakers are darn proud of them. They list the bacon they've bagged for their constituents right on their Websites. ... The public links the current economic fiasco to a "bought government" for which earmarks are one form of currency. ... If Washington can't end a tawdry system that involves relatively small amounts of money, what hope is there for reforming the big stuff? Cutting the number of earmarks to zero shouldn't be that hard -- and should be this year's business.
As Obama Nation has proved several times already since January 20, 2009, it's "Business as usual" in D.C.
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