Indeed he is. “Pork and earmarks will go, right after I sign this bill full of pork and earmarks”. Of course, he had no choice, but couldn’t he just have kept his mouth shut about stopping the way Washington works?
Pulled between his campaign rhetoric and his own party’s congressional barons, President Barack Obama largely sided with his Hill allies in unveiling an earmark proposal Wednesday that shies away from any strict crackdown on the practice.
Obama proposed further transparency for the spending goodies prized by many members of Congress – but stopped far short of the kind of serious limits reformers wanted.
Well, the joke is on all of us who thought this president would be any different than the others. After all, George W. Bush ran on being a small-government, close-to-home, humble-foreign-affairs president, but in stead we got a spend’em-and-whack’em president with no humility on the global stage. Nick Gillespie: Bush Was A Big-Goverment Disaster.