And Some of You Were Worried that Obama Would be Different

From an AP article on AJC.com:

“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.

Administration budget chief Peter Orszag and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel both downplayed the $410 billion spending bill and signaled Obama would hold his nose and sign it.

Orszag said: ‘We want to just move on. Let's get this bill done, get it into law and move forward.’

Said Emanuel: ‘That's last year's business.’”

After all, the over 9,000 earmarks are only somewhere between $3.8 and 7.7 billion depending on the source you choose, that’s a drop in the bucket when it comes to the six figure billions the budget bill will spend (I thought we did budgets in October?).

I really like the “last year’s business” line. The campaign promise? “Hey, we lied, get over it.”