{"id":8536,"date":"2009-03-09T17:31:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8536"},"modified":"2009-03-09T17:57:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:57:16","slug":"so-whose-spending-bill-is-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8536","title":{"rendered":"So whose spending bill is it anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest email from my newest BFFs at Organizing for America tells me to gird my loins for battle against&#8230;well&#8230;someone. I don&#8217;t don&#8217;t who I&#8217;m fighting, but I need to be ready to fight;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spoiling-for-a-fight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8537 aligncenter\" title=\"spoiling-for-a-fight\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spoiling-for-a-fight-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spoiling-for-a-fight-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spoiling-for-a-fight.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the oligarchy&#8230;no wait that&#8217;s Chavez &#8211; oh, yeah, the &#8220;the special interests and old ways of Washington&#8221;. I wonder which special interest I should whup up on first&#8230;ACORN or the lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>But wait. Obama is claiming this budget as his own? That&#8217;s what the email says. What did Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/03\/08\/obama.earmarks\/index.html?section=cnn_latest\">tell CNN yesterday<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is like your relief pitcher coming into the ninth inning and wanting to redo the whole game,&#8221; Orszag said. &#8220;Next year we&#8217;re going to be the starting pitcher, and the game&#8217;s going to be completely different.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we supposed to be supporting a Bush spending bill? Really? It&#8217;s not Obama&#8217;s like they told me in the email? I don&#8217;t thin I want to fight anymore until I find who I&#8217;m fighting for. Geez, ya know maybe I ought to screen capture that CNN story in case it disappears;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/fight-who.dib\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/fight-who-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fight-who\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8538\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So in order to come down on both sides of this issue, Obama alternately blames Bush for the spending bill and tells his mindless drones to get ready to fight for Obama&#8217;s bill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest email from my newest BFFs at Organizing for America tells me to gird my &hellip; <a title=\"So whose spending bill is it anyway?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8536\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So whose spending bill is it anyway?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,47,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy","category-liberals-suck","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}