On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM, raunchydog <raunchy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
It's an economic stimulus package. Obama swore that pork would be cut out of legislation. Well, since this was an economic stimulus package, funding to prevent STDs (which is still in the package) and for family planning just can't be justified as "economic stimulus" and in effect is liberal pork. Indeed Nancy Pelosi was asked what family planning had to do with "economic stimulus" and she came up with the most bizarre answer. There is plenty of time to introduce a bill to promote Obama's liberal agenda. But why do what you campaigned against and lump so many irrelevant appropriations into another bill? Now if you want to attack Obama, then attack him for violating his campaign promise to bring sunshine into the legislative process. He promised that bills would be placed on the whitehouse website for 5 days so all could review. Well, guess what? His first bill, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, was signed by Obama 2 days after being passed by Congress.
