President Obama says he wants to sign the spending bill that's laden with pork. Even though he campaigned on the promise to go "line by line" and cut all the pork out. Now that he's got the chance, he's not even taking a dull butter knife to it.
"(Pork) will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place," said Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Likening it to a relief pitcher coming in late in the game and wanting to do it over, he says just pass this bill and trust us that next time we'll do it right.
But government spending isn't like a baseball game, you do have time for do overs. That's why the President has line item veto power. It's meaningless to say wait till next year.
Cut the pork, Mr. President! Just like you promised us you would.
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