Obama beats early retreat on promise to fight pork
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite campaign promises to take a machete to lawmakers' pet projects, President Barack Obama is quietly caving to funding nearly 8,000 of them this year, drawing a stern rebuke Monday from his Republican challenger in last fall's election.
"So much for the promise of change," McCain said in the first of many assaults he is likely to make against pork-barrel spending this year.
White House Budget Director Peter Orsazg said Sunday that the new administration wants to "move on ... get this bill done, get it into law and move forward."
Obama is hardly the first president to promise to make Congress change its pork-barreling ways, and he certainly won't be the last. But he is the first to retreat so quickly, after only six weeks in the White House.
I wonder ... how many more campaign promises Obama will break before the American People wake up ?
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