Democrats Propose FY 2008 Budget

The sticking points with the President will be additional money for veterans' benefits, education and health care. The budget is 2% bigger than the President and he is hinting he might veto it, but House Appropriations Chairman David R. Obey (D-WI) hass a pretty good comeback:

"It's that 2 percent difference that makes him a president, not a king, and I don't plan on crowning him...I haven't had too many people grab me back home and say, 'Obey, why don't you come to your senses and cut cancer research?' That's what the president's budget has done for the past two years, and that's what it would do again."

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) makes the important point that Republicans couldn't even agree on a budget, and Democrats intend to do better, even working with a Republican President.