Day 51. What's for dinner? PORK!

The president is going to sign the $410 billion budget.

(CNN) -- President Obama on Wednesday called for a reform of the much-maligned federal earmarking process. ... His remarks came the day after the Senate passed a $410 billion spending bill that included nearly 9,000 earmarks, which are projects designed to benefit individual legislators' districts. The earmarks in the spending bill are worth nearly $8 billion. Many critics have deemed them as wasteful, and some observers have questioned Obama's pledge to end such spending. Some lawmakers urged Obama to veto the bill -- saying it goes against the president's campaign pledge.

Read all about it here. The budget is full of pork and earmarks. During the campaign, we were promised and end to earmarks and pork. Does this bother you? It does not bother me, because I am not one to believe politicians. Basically we are seeing another example of the old Washing ton rule: 'Say anything to get elected, then do whatever you want.' What is their excuse?

"[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place," Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN's "State of the Union With John King."

Can't wait to see what the excuse will be next year.