Nancy Pelosi has sneaked a $10 billion government-union bailout, and another $10 billion in domestic spending, into the supplemental military-spending bill.

The war supplemental was only supposed to be $37 billion as it was — that’s $20 billion in grease to pass $37 billion in war spending. Bad form, Nancy. Way to let the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan know exactly where they stand on the political totem pole back home!

The $10 billion bailout to the states — more accurately, to the states’ government-employee unions — was passed on the argument that, without it, there would be massive layoffs of teachers. That is not and was not ever going to happen. But if it were going to happen — so what? Most of our public schools are massively overfunded and ludicrously inefficient. Why punish taxpayers in the more frugal districts to bail out northeastern suburban schools that spend in excess of $20,000 per student annually?

This is a Big Labor, Big Government bailout — a $10 billion payoff to one of Nancy Pelosi’s most favored special-interest groups. And it won’t be the last: State personnel spending, particularly on pensions and benefits, is unsustainable, with Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois leading the way to bankruptcy. There will be more, and rewarding the spendthrift today encourages even worse behavior that will make tomorrow’s bailouts even more expensive.

Who didn’t think that $37 billion supplemental was expensive enough as it was and needed to be bumped up 50 percent?