Finger Pointing By The Obama Administration - Who is responsible?

[WhiskeyGirl]

I remember the president going on TV and talking about how important the stimulus bill was and  how we HAD to pass this massive pork and spending bill.  He took his time signing it.  Was he unaware that little people were struggling, Main Street businesses were struggling?  That unemployment was rising?  He seemed unaware - he got the 'magic bullet' he asked for.

Where is all the money going? 

"ANALYSIS: States Hit Hardest by Recession Get Least Stimulus Money"

"The stimulus bill is designed to help those who have been hurt by the economic downturn.... Do you see disparity out there in where the money is going? Certainly," a Democratic congressional staffer knowledgeable about the process told FOXNews.com. "The people to talk to are in the administration.... The administration is deciding where [the money] flows."

An Obama administration official told FOXNews.com that "it is not as simple as looking where the money goes. You could have someone who lives in Maryland and works in Virginia and they are benefited from money given to the Virginia firm even though they live in Maryland." She also noted that it didn't really matter who got the money because "giving out money is good for everyone. If you give the money to an old person, they will spend it and that will create more jobs."

She also said that Congress was responsible for deciding where the money would go. "We didn't write the bill. We let Congress write the bill," she said.

Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at UCLA who has extensively studied New Deal policies and depressions, told FOXNews.com that the spending patterns our study found "certainly don't fit what you would think that they would be from the standpoint of government spending as a social safety net.... The pattern does seem quite odd. It is certainly not the way the program was advertised."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533841,00.html

Who is responsible for deciding where the money is spent?  The timeline?  Who is responsible for any sense of urgency?

What matters more?  Who wrote the bill?  Or, who is making decision on when and where the money is spent?