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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who will openly tell you he does whatever President Obama and Speaker Pelosi instruct, can bring the war escalation funding to the House floor
despite the opposition of Appropriations Chairman David Obey. This is
because the House passed the bill without the war escalation funding and
sent it to the Senate, which has now sent it back to the House.

Th e current plan is to pass a single bill that includes both the war money
and some lipstick (disaster relief, etc.). This will require keeping
the lipstick thin enough to win some Republican votes and slathering it
on thick enough to win a lot of Democratic votes (which can also be won
through campaign funding, earmarks, committee positions, PR stunts,
etc.).

One trick that will apparrently be used to win Democrats' support is the inclusion of extra, meaningless
votes, just for show, on the two components of the bill. They'll vote
on the war escalation funding, and lots of Democrats will vote No. And
they'll vote on the disaster relief, etc., and lots of Republicans will
vote No. Both elements will pass, but nothing will have been done.
Then they'll hold a meaningful vote on the whole bill, and lots of the
Democrats who just moments before pretended to oppose war escalation
will vote for the bill that funds it.