Libertarians dare Obama to veto pork bill

America's third largest political party wants President Obama to live up to his pledge to "end politics as usual in Washington" and veto a $410 billion spending bill that includes more than 8,500 pork projects.

The Libertarian Party says the earmarks in the bill total $7.7 billion and fly in the face of Obama's campaign promises.

From a release issued by the Libertarian Party:

"Republicans already broke their weeks-old promise to stand for fiscal responsibility by fighting to have their own wasteful earmarks included in the bill," said Libertarian National Committee Communications Director Donny Ferguson. "Will Obama keep his promise to end earmarks by vetoing this bill, or will this be the latest in a long strong of broken Obama promises?"

The White House has indicated Obama will sign the bill, despite his earlier promises to oppose earmarking.

"Republicans are banding together to grab taxpayer cash and Obama is ignoring his own pledge to stop the practice. With Republicans and Democrats working together to continue wasteful spending it's abundantly clear the Libertarian Party is the only party agreeing with the American people that earmarks must be abolished," said Ferguson.

Good luck with that. I'm afraid Libertarians were had by Obama just like a lot of Democrats and Republicans. And why the Libertarian Party so harsh on Congressional Republicans? Most of the pork spending was included by the Democrats.