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WASHINGTON (AP) When it comes to dealing with all those pet projects in the big spending bill before Congress, President Obama's budget chief says wait until next year.

White House budget director Peter Orszag says the Obama administration isn't happy with the billions of dollars aimed at lawmakers' pet projects also known as earmarks. Obama had campaigned on changing the way such money is appropriated by Congress.

Yet Orszag says Obama doesn't want to revisit the spending bill Congress put together before he was elected and wants to move on. Next year, according to Orszag, when Obama is fully involved in the next budget from the start, earmarks will be handled differently.

Obama's budget chief appeared Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
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Stunningly hypocritical of him.
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Xenophon said: ↑

Stunningly hypocritical of him.
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Their "excuse" is incredibly lame.
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Article 15 said: ↑

WASHINGTON (AP) When it comes to dealing with all those pet projects in the big spending bill before Congress, President Obama's budget chief says wait until next year.

White House budget director Peter Orszag says the Obama administration isn't happy with the billions of dollars aimed at lawmakers' pet projects also known as earmarks. Obama had campaigned on changing the way such money is appropriated by Congress.

Yet Orszag says Obama doesn't want to revisit the spending bill Congress put together before he was elected and wants to move on. Next year, according to Orszag, when Obama is fully involved in the next budget from the start, earmarks will be handled differently.

Obama's budget chief appeared Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
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Budget chief: Obama will fight earmarks next year - USATODAY.com
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Does everyone in Obama's cabinet think the American people are idiots?
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I'm guess they are just 'too tired' to deal with them this year. Spending money is hard work, not too mention health care and running the auto industry. Sort of like UK's Brown, next year will be better.

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Translation.. We know we owe you big time for getting us elected so we are gonna let you feed at the trough like the pigs you are.. Next year, we will come up with a different more creative excuse to spend like a whore in Nieman Marcus. Thanks!
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Annie said: ↑

Are you feeling all warm and fuzzy?
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No. Clearly I'm not happy about it.
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God, this is getting ridiculous. How are people still buying into this bullshit?

Dear Obama voters,

You were lied to. Thanks for fucking the rest of us in the process.

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America
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Article 15 said: ↑

Annie said: ↑

Are you feeling all warm and fuzzy?
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No. Clearly I'm not happy about it.
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i'm not surprised
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Facing mounting criticism of a spending package packed with billions of dollars in earmarks, the Obama administration made a vow Sunday: This president will bring a halt to pork-laden bills.

Peter Orszag says it is too late to cut earmarks from the spending bill inherited from the Bush administration.

"[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place," Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN's "State of the Union with John King."

He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, which it inherited from the previous administration. The bill would keep the government running through 2009.

"This is like your relief pitcher coming into the ninth inning and wanting to redo the whole game," Orszag said. "Next year we're going to be the starting pitcher, and the game's going to be completely different."
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Totally lame. Let the blame game begin. He has the same power NOW he is going to have next year.
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