So much for Hope and Change. In Washington, the Obama administration is business-as-usual. 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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