Obama's Vow to Eliminate Earmarking From Budgets: B+Set to Sign Porked-Up Omnibus Spending Bill With Price Tag of $447 B+True Cost of Bill: $1.1 Trillion

Obama's Vow to Eliminate Earmarking From Budgets: B+<br>Set to Sign Porked-Up Omnibus Spending Bill With Price Tag of $447 B+<br>True Cost of Bill: $1.1 <i>Trillion</i>: "He wants to be known as the deficit-fightin' president, you know.

In March, President Obama announced he would sign a $410 billion omnibus spending bill containing, according to taxpayers� groups, 8,570 earmarks at a cost of $7.7 billion, but he said he would push to reform the earmark system. He seemed a little embarrassed about the whole deal, refusing to sign the bill in public or even to release a photograph.

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Today Gibbs was asked if the President was contemplating vetoing the $447 billion omnibus spending bill passed by the Senate yesterday -- which has more than 5,000 earmarks � as a way of sending a signal to Democrats to stop the earmarks and wasteful spending.

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Gibbs said he was �led to believe� President Obama would sign the bill.

In related news, the Santa Claus is coming, and he will give all the children B+'s."