Obama budget director: We'll cut pork after '09 spending bill
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."
And yet all it would really take is for acting president bambam to say VETO. I am certain that thought has not occurred to Mr. I don't want my daughters to be punished with a baby. What a worthless, spineless poly-tic-ian!
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