It doesn’t come with spring rolls, or a side of rice, but it does come with peanuts, spinach and citrus.

“We have provided all of the money the president requested- and more,” boasted House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer.

That includes $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers and $100 million for citrus growers.

Is it some major appropriations bill, or the Democrat answer to the President’s budget proposal?

No.

It’s part of the Democrat-written fully-funded withdrawal from Iraq.

It also appears that their “plan” for Iraq, which is full of “pork” (read: earmarks) may be circumventing that touted rule during the 100-hour lockdown: PAYGO.

Rep. Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican who sits on the committee, said he will try amending the bill today. First, he wants to strip out the non-emergency, member-requested spending and force it to go through the normal appropriations process. Under newly approved Democratic rules, that would require offsets to pay for the new spending.

Kirk also wants to entirely eliminate money for spinach farmers.

“Spinach farmers in California should not be getting emergency war spending money,” he said.

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