Promise is only a margarine

This headline caught my eye...

Pelosi Risks Losing Support by Funding Pet Projects

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last year that she would be happy to ``do away with'' the practice of funding members' pet projects, though she knew it wasn't ``realistic.''...

Thousands of so-called earmarks still adorn spending bills, including 15 from Pelosi in a defense measure...

Democrats, who never promised to abolish the practice altogether, say they have cut the number of earmarks ...

Never promised to abolish the practice altogether?

You judge if that's the case from this December 11, 2006 article...

Dems to Wipe Out Pet Projects in Bills

"There will be no congressional earmarks," Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said Monday in a statement announcing their plans, which were quickly endorsed by incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D- Nev.

Sounds like they've been listening to CommieTommie Harkin and the scientific community is united in that fact...

“I happen to be a supporter of earmarks, unabashedly. But I don’t call them earmarks. It is ‘Congressional directed funding.’ ”

Per a little document called The Constitution of the United States of America, all funding is directed by Congress.