Democratic leaders may add unemployment benefits to war bill

[Maggie_May]

WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders have a plan to try to add extended unemployment benefits and new education funding for veterans to President Bush's war funding bill while dropping lots of other party priorities.
Democrats are in fact planning on not only providing the $108 billion to fund the war through the Sept. 30, the end of the 2008 budget year, but they're likely to add another $70 billion for next year so they don't have to vote on war funding again in the fall election season.
But the hard line from the White House has Democrats scaling back plans to use the must-pass bill as an engine to carry everything from a summer jobs programs to a Senate proposal for $10 billion for infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges and new schools.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080424/ap_on_go_co/congress_iraq_funding;_ylt=AsXUBtY4vECmxGcgI0nKGaCs0NUE

So let me get this straight we are dealing again instead of stopping this war. We are still going to fund it providing we get something out of it. The things the Democrats want should not even be issue in the war funding bill they are things that we need and should have. To give him a another war funding bill makes my stomach turn. When are we going to have the balls to put a end to this and start using our money for things the American people need instead we still wheel and deal with this administration.

[Tyler Durden]

1. Maybe when we put up Candidates who'll show the minerals to stop paying for bullets.

Neither Clinton nor Obama is showing the guts to BLOCK more money being poured into the defense department, allowing them to "off books and budget" pay for this war crime.

[Donnachaidh]

2. noticed that too, huh?

Seems to me all the hoopla and hype is just covering the FACT that BOTH candidates will do NOTHING to change Washington. We'll get to suffer through a few more month's of *she's a bitch" and "he's an empty suit/etc.".

And once all the screaming settles down it's back to busines as usual REGARDLESS of who gets the nomination. :eyes:

[KharmaTrain]

4. Cut The Funding And Asshat Will Find It Elsewhere

Ya don't think this regime will find a way to fund it's war for profit? Think again...even if funding it cut. He'll just "executive order" the money from elsewhere in the budget...like for food stamps or social security or from the already poorly funded veterans budget...as well as 6 months of this regime and its corporate media enablers tatooing Democrats as "deserting the troops".

Instead, Democrats need to stand up for those fighting the war...not desert them. Demand that the funding of this travesty get put back ON THE BUDGET...not separate and disclose how much is being spent and by whom. Let's force this regime to open up how much its giving to contractors...and whose getting that money.

If there's to be a showdown with this regime it should be on the funding for a withdrawl of troops...something asshat will veto and it will be overridden.

Sadly, we're stuck in Iraq until a new administration comes in...and then we have to survey how bad the damage is. I want our troops out, but I want them out safe...not having to shoot their way out.

[glowing]

3. IMPEACH THE FUCK WAD.

Then we could pass real legislation without funding this illeagal and imoral occupation .. this is not a war and we need to change the language.. Start calling it what it is illegal occupation.