The House of Folds For 7/27/10: The Worse Bill Of The Year Is Passed

As documented earlier this morning, the Afghan war supplemental, with needed funding for teachers, summer youth jobs, and the black farmers settlement that the Obama Administration supposedly settled on their end in February stripped out, passed the House in resounding fashion by the final total of 308-111.

Th bill was already dreadful on the basis of it continuing the funding of an insane war. But its already toxic nature was made further pestilent and awful with how how the House of Lords decided to take all of those needed things out of the bill.

So take a look once more at all of those 148 Democrats who voted with all but 12 people from the nutcase party to keep on funding our efforts to somehow fight fellow NATO allies among our epic struggle after struggle over there .

And know today that this nation's Congressional figures thought it once more pertinent to deliver money to a foreign money than its desperately in need people here at home.

Oh, and get this lovely little tidbit about why that extra domestic spending for those needy things listed above was finally left out for good :

The Senate last week sent a $58.8 billion supplemental spending bill back to the House after rejecting an additional $22 billion in domestic spending included in an earlier House version of the bill. The House funding for domestic programs, including education, triggered a veto threat from the White House over the offsets devised to pay for those programs.

I guess the White House was none to please about that money for teachers, lest it mess up their rosy charter school education plan!

The worst legislation of the year ladies and gentlemen, unless you are with the Pentagon or an avid supporter of charter schools.

Update: Just to highlight the full absurdity of the bill, look at what is still written as its final description

BILL TITLE: Making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes

But summer jobs got stripped out the bill (and what good would it have made with the whole summer basically over anyway).

Our dysfunctional government, even in the House, there in a dire nutshell.