Referring to speculation that Democrats would add domestic spending provisions to a $108 billion war supplemental bill, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said, "We will fight against any cynical attempts to...pile billions more in unrelated and wasteful pork-barrel spending onto the backs of our men and women in uniform serving so bravely." Here's a list of programs (CQ, $) for which a few Democrats would like to see funding in the war spending bill:

• Food Stamps
• Levee repairs for the Gulf Coast
• Head Start
• Nutrition for low-income pregnant women and children
• Low-income energy assistance
• Wildfire fighting

Arguing the merits of funding these priorities - including the war itself - in a supplemental spending bill may well be called for, but calling Food Stamps, levee repair, etc. "wasteful pork-barrel spending" piled on "the backs of our men and women in uniform?" That's cynical.