The AP Wire reports that despite campaign promises to take a machete to lawmakers’ pet projects, President Barack Obama is quietly caving to funding nearly 8,000 of them this year.

“So much for the promise of change,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said in the first of many assaults he is likely to make against pork-barrel spending this year.

Obama is hardly the first president to promise to make Congress change its pork-barreling ways, and he certainly won’t be the last. But he is the first to retreat so quickly, after only six weeks in the White House.

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The judges are going to jail, but the prison companies have so far avoided prosecution. Mr Schwartz fears this is because Robert Powell, the former co-owner of Pennsylvania Child Care, has been co-operating with the authorities. If the prisons get off, though, that will be another disgrace.

Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the only member of the senate to earn a perfect rating from the American Conservative Union, called President Obama “the world’s best salesman of socialism” on Friday in describing his prime time speech earlier this week.

DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to “take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.”

His remarks comes a day after Mike Huckabee told the conference of conservative activists that “the Union of American Socialist Republics is being born” with the president’s stimulus package.

“Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff,” Huckabee said of the government bailing out financial institutions.

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The speaker’s critics have dubbed it “Pelosi One.” Military officials are said to be grumbling about it, and she finds herself on the defensive.  Today, she insisted that size doesn’t really matter.

“It’s not a question of size. It’s a question of distance. We want an aircraft that can reach California,” Pelosi said.

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How about flying commercial?  How is it acceptable for the taxpaper to pick up her tab while simultaneously NOT being acceptable for corporations (employing thousands of hard-working taxpayers) to use them?

Democratic leadership at it’s finest.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama charted a dramatic new course for the nation Thursday with a bold but contentious budget proposing higher taxes for the wealthy and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all — accompanied by an astonishing $1.75 trillion federal deficit that would be nearly four times the highest in history.

Denouncing what he called the “dishonest accounting” of recent federal budgets, Obama unveiled his own $3.6 trillion blueprint for next year, a bold proposal that would transfer wealth from rich taxpayers to the middle class and the poor.

Is America destined to become a socialist nation?  Shall we follow the lead of France, with low productivity, endless government subsidies and outragous taxes and allow India and China to take the lead as global economic superpowers?

In an era of ballooning federal deficits, proposed tax hikes, corporate greed and record fraud, people are demanding change - they are sick of our Washington leaders bathing in the pork fat while the average American struggles to preserve the American way of life.

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