JENNIFER RUBIN: Does Obama Support 6000 Earmarks?

Blogger Guy Benson reminds us that Obama not so long ago spoke out on the subject of earmarks. In 2009 Obama grudgingly signed a $410 billion omnibus spending bill filled with earmarks but vowed, “This piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability that the American people have every right to expect and demand.”

If he was serious then, wouldn’t it behoove the president, as he makes a play to recapture independent voters, to issue a veto threat? Otherwise, the Republicans will surely claim the high ground on the issue of fiscal discipline and try now or in January to nix the pork.

Indeed.