Despite numerous veto threats, senators in both parties have loaded up President Bush's war funding bill with a grab bag of domestic programs.[...]
The Senate was scheduled to begin debate on the measure Tuesday, just days after a key panel added more about $28 billion to Bush's budget request for this year and next, with almost $50 billion more for a big expansion of veterans benefits under the GI Bill over 2010-2018.
The new GI Bill and Democratic priorities like extending unemployment benefits are simply the big-ticket add-ons, both of which have drawn veto threats. There's also $50 million to track down child predators, $400 million to help rural schools and $350 million fight western wildfires, just for starters.
Fund the war and your pet project, too.
A thousand years.
There oughta be a law.
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