{"id":1201,"date":"2009-03-11T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2009-03-11T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:37:17","slug":"obama-no-more-earmarks-except-for-these-earmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/obama-no-more-earmarks-except-for-these-earmarks","title":{"rendered":"Obama: No more earmarks, except for these earmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2009\/03\/09\/1829153.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Politico.com with Obama&#8217;s hypocrisy on earmarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Compare these relevant graphs&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;when I&#8217;m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2008\/president\/debates\/transcripts\/first-presidential-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">First Obama-McCain debate<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The FY&#8217;09 omnibus appropriations bill contains 8,570 known earmarks totaling $7.7 billion. That amount represents less than 2% of the $410 billion legislation.\u00a0\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxpayer.net\/resources.php?category=&amp;type=Project&amp;proj_id=1961&amp;action=Headlines%20By%20TCS\" target=\"_blank\">Taxpayers for Common Sense<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama is set to sign the earmark laden Omnibus bill today. This president reminds me of the title of a popular Jim Carrey movie. His pants are also on fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico.com with Obama&#8217;s hypocrisy on earmarks. Compare these relevant graphs&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;when I&#8217;m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.&#8221; (First Obama-McCain debate) The FY&#8217;09 omnibus appropriations bill contains 8,570 known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/obama-no-more-earmarks-except-for-these-earmarks\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}