Posted by
GunnyG© on Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:37:10 AM
The "Captain's Quarters," another excellent blog, is issuing a CALL TO ARMS for the blogsphere to open up a massive broadside to President Bush, who is semmingly going "wobbly" on issuing an Exceutive Order to STOP the abuse of "earmarks" from a Congress gone crazy.
Excerpt:
Sources on the Hill tell some of us that a critical point has been reached at the White House on whether to issue an Executive Order that would prevent federal agencies from spending funds on 90% of the earmarks in the Omnibus Spending Bill. According to the whispers, the earmarkers on Capitol Hill have begun to lean heavily on the White House to let the matter drop and to keep the earmark funding in place. Every day brings a fresh round of calls from the same lawmakers who porked up the overdue spending bill, "airdropping" almost all of them (against the new rules in Congress) to keep the porkers from accountability. If CapQ readers want George Bush to issue the Executive Order and hold Congress responsible for violating its own rules while pursuing personal political benefits, they need to let the White House know now how they feel.
You can make a difference. Call 202-456-1111 and politely explain why the President should issue the EO, or e-mail them: comments@whitehouse.gov.
WHATTYA WAITING FOR!? GET BUSY OR QUIT B*TCHING!
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016511.php