is to be able to voice an opinion regarding words said....promises made...VS actions taken or not taken by the POTUS or any other lawmaker (REGARDLESS OF PARTY/RACE/RELIGION/or what ever).

We all know politicians say one thing to get elected. They do what ever they have to do to remain in office....and sometimes in those processes they deliver on something from the vote for me speeches.....NOT VERY OFTEN.

When one says they are going to CHANGE how we do business in Washington....hires all Washington insiders who know all the reasons why things done the way the are will continue...who ignores the most basic opportunity anybody ever had to show there is sincerity in intent...he could have very easily pontificated....there shalt be no pork (which was promised)....but he did not. This is not bashing it is merely making a true statement. New management does not condone what is being done wrong just because it is expedient...."the bail out bill isn't perfect but get it passed"
.....chock full of pork. He has sent a signal to Congress and boy have the picked up on it. Now a new $400 million spending bill is speeding through, once again loaded with pork and earmarks....PLUS allowing increased spending 2009 over 2008....for many projects that should be struck from the bill because they don't work, or they are losers or they have nothing to do with what the government NEEDS to do to keep operating.

It is business as usual....and when business as usual is not nipped in the early days of office....it ain't going to be....it is business as usual.

Me, I am very particular to what a person says they will do...I have this very bad habit from my operating days....if you say it...I EXPECT IT TO BE DONE.

As a business turn around expert or shut the doors if it is truly not recoverable, I expect results from day one. And I do not abide by the ...but it takes time to _ _ _ _ excuses. Nail the simple ones from day one that telegraph things are going to CHANGE.....Obama passing up that opportunity on pork, earmarks and condoning year on year increases in budgeted spending for undeserving projects.....is deserving of comment. He blew a golden opportunity to make a SIGNIFICANT/SERIOUS CHANGE. In fact has instead condone the same old process. Whether by him or the opposition....when they don't deliver on the words....or the needs....they need to be taken to task....NOW....not later.

Washington is still doing business as usual. We the people are not a page one priority. Politics was and still is.

BTK

It is just too simple to say...no pork and mean it.