AND JAKE TAPPER DIDN'T WRITE THAT HEADLINE:

Obama decries earmarks, signs bill with 9,000 of them (Steven Thomma and David Lightman, Mar. 11, 2009, McClatchy Newspapers)

As a candidate, Barack Obama once said that a president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time. Wednesday he proved it, though not in the way he had in mind.

He criticized pork barrel spending in the form of "earmarks," urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress.