I Can't Wait To End This Era Of Governance

And from the we've got a lot of work to do file:

House Democrats are likely to drop a 13-week extension of unemployment insurance benefits from a major spending package that includes continued funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that would create a new education benefit for military veterans returning from the battlefields.

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said yesterday that the unemployment insurance provision would "probably not" be part of the final package of war and domestic spending, which has become the most important legislative battle this spring between congressional Democrats and President Bush [...]

The version of the bill approved by the Senate on May 22 would cost more than $250 billion over 10 years, a price tag that the fiscally conservative caucus of "Blue Dog" House Democrats opposes. The bill would provide $165 billion to fund the two wars into the next presidency, along with billions of dollars more for domestic programs.

The total absurdity about Blue Dogs balking at the price tag of domestic spending in a bill that puts $165 BILLION dollars for war funding OFF THE BOOKS is about to send my fist through this computer screen. I mean good Lord.

If Obama wins, Democrats will own this war. And all of these Blue Dogs will have a choice to make, and they'll either understand the meaning of responsibility or we'll have to hold them to account. There's so much rot in the Democratic Party to clear away, it's going to be a rough road.