Obama Loses more Democratic Support for Spending

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two Senate Democrats urged President Obama Wednesday to veto a $410 billion spending bill and said they are going to vote against it, criticizing it for its cost and for including too many personal pet projects.

"I don't think we should pass it [spending bill] this way," Feingold said on CNN's The Situation Room Wednesday. "[I'd like] to have the president veto it and say 'clean it up, do it over.'"

Feingold added: "If that doesn't happen I think he should ... lay down a policy and [say] 'OK, this was stuff from last year ... but from now on don't send me appropriations bills with earmarks or I'll send it back to you.' I would love to see him say that."

The legislation in question is an omnibus bill that would keep the federal government running through the rest of the fiscal year, which ends in September 2009.

The legislation includes $7.7 billion in earmarks, which are unrelated pet projects that members of Congress insert in spending bills.

Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, said those who vote in favor of the bill "jeopardize their credibility."

"But the bloated omnibus requires sacrifice from no one, least of all the government. It only exacerbates the problem and hastens the day of reckoning," Bayh wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial published Wednesday.

"Voters rightly demanded change in November's election, but this approach to spending represents business as usual in Washington, not the voters' mandate."

During the election season, Bayh was considered one of the front-runners to be Obama's vice president. - CNN Story

It appears that more and more people on jumping off the Obama spending train. This is good news for the Citizens of America. Obama can't hide behind the "This is somebody else's mess" defense any longer.

There is also a bipartisan effort to give the President Line Item Veto power. This would put the President right where he wanted to be. He would be the decider of what is wasteful spending. Congress could override it, but by him doing what he said he would do, it would call them out on this ridiculus spending.