Twenty Democratic Reps. voted with the Republicans against Obama’s budget (the list). Oddly enough Dennis Kucinich voted with the Blue Dog Dems. As you might guess, Kucinich's vote was about the war:
This year, the budget includes $130 billion for war funding. The Washington Post reports today another 10,000 troops may be sent to Afghanistan, bringing our total number of troops there to as much as 78,000 by 2010 –- a more than 100% increase from today’s troop levels. This budget is a plan that authorizes the expansion of the war. I simply cannot endorse a budget or a plan that sends more of our brave men and women to, a conflict which has the potential to become this generation’s
The budget passed both the House and the Senate without one single vote from the GOP. So much for post-partisan fairy tales.
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