http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050802858.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday postponed consideration of a bill that would continue funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a bloc of conservative Democrats balked at the high cost of including several of Pelosi’s favored domestic spending programs.
Pelosi (D-Calif.), who also faces Republican stalling tactics in protest of unusual parliamentary procedures, predicted that the complaints of “Blue Dog” Democrats would be addressed and that the bill eventually would receive unanimous support from Democrats.
“I am very confident that, next week, we will come to the floor with a bill that has the full consensus of the Democrats and hopefully can attract a large number of Republicans, as well,” she told reporters.
The Blue Dogs have objected to the creation of a program that would guarantee veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan a year of in-state college tuition for each year served in the war zones. The Blue Dogs said the House had not found any additional money, through spending cuts or tax increases, to pay for the program, a violation of pay-as-you-go rules imposed by House Democrats in early 2007.
“We have a duty as a country to tend to [returning soldiers]. But we also have a duty as a country to pay for them,” said Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.), a leader of the Blue Dog coalition.
Meanwhile the far left blogs are declaring war on anyone who doesn’t toe the line from their viewpoint.
By Nov popcorn is going to be in short supply.
