Senate democrats tried for the umpteenth time to do a back-door retreat of troops in Iraq yesterday, and for the umpteenth time they failed.
Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a bid by Democrats to restrict troop-deployment schedules for a second time, saying it would impede the ability of President Bush and generals to wage the war in [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided the Senate Democrats will not temper their approach to Iraq legislation in an effort to gain Republican support.
Apparently 54% of Americans polled by Pew have said they want to bring the troops home as soon as possible. That number, if accurate, is dropping lately. The question [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday he will recommend a veto should a bill sponsored by Sen. Webb of Virginia pass the Senate.
The proposal, sponsored by Sen. James H. Webb Jr., Virginia Democrat, that would require that troops be given equal time off to match tours of duty, was dismissed by Mr. Gates as “a [...]

After the Petraeus report it seems the Congressional Democrats’ hope for Republican defections to order a quick withdrawal from Iraq is going to end up in frustration again.
Senate Republicans, bolstered by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus’ war report this week, are closing ranks and say Democrats will continue to fall far shy of the votes [...]

Unnamed sources have told the AP the GAO will give a mostly negative report about the progress made by the Iraqi government in the benchmarks set by Washington in January.
WASHINGTON — Congressional auditors have determined that the Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid have said they will announce a new plan to end the Iraq war, to which I say, Just defund the darned thing and get it over with! Stop playing games and be the transparent Congress leaders you promised in the last election.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]

I guess I always knew in the back of my mind it would happen. Right-leaning sites love to call those on the left the cut and run crowd.
Now the right has its own cut and run people. Oh, they describe themselves as moderates, but no one will pay attention to that. All [...]

The Democratic House of Representatives is hell-bent on confrontations with the president as to what authority belongs to whom.
Now they are set to approve a bill that would fund the troops only until July, a scant two months away.
President Bush would veto a bill drafted by House Democratic leaders that would fund the Iraq [...]

It’s all about getting elected and that’s the only game in town for Washington DC.
Reading this article actually confirms it for me.
Quoting John Boehner, House Minority Leader on Fox News Sunday:
House Minority Leader John A. Boehner yesterday said Republican lawmakers might begin looking for a “Plan B,” if there are no measurable signs of [...]

California Conservative does a pretty good job of fisking the comments made by Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi after the president’s veto speech last night.
Here’s the transcript of their speech:
Statement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on President Bush’s veto of the Iraq spending bill, as provided [...]

This afternoon Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid had a signing ceremony of their own on the Supplemental War spending bill. With great fanfare Speaker Pelosi signed the bill she has been pushing for several weeks.
It has been reported Speaker Pelosi needed to read the bill and understand it thoroughly in order to sign this [...]

Congressional Democrats are looking ahead to the next stage of the political battle over Iraq cutting off funds for war operations after March though it puts lawmakers eyeing the White House in a bind.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to do that, [...]

The Democrat-controlled Congress yesterday moved to limit U.S. combat operations in Iraq immediately and withdraw troops as early as July, hardening its stance for a veto showdown with President Bush over war funding.
Congressional negotiators from both chambers agreed to the new language yesterday afternoon, hours after Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has for the second day since returning from a two-week Easter break postponed naming conferees for the reconciliation of the military supplemental spending bill.
She says it’s because a lot of Representatives from the Northeast were unable to get to Washington due to the recent storms and because some lawmakers attended services [...]

The leaders of Congress are set in their decision to attach some sort of timeline to the supplemental military spending bill.
“The president has a choice to make in the coming days: Cling to the discredited policies that have led our troops further into an intractable civil war, or work with a bipartisan majority of Congress [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says President Bush is as isolated as Richard Nixon during Watergate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) compared President Bush to former President Nixon today, suggesting Bush is “as isolated” now over the Iraq war as Nixon was during the Watergate scandal, reports Politico’s Carrie Budoff.
Reid was responding to questions [...]

From www.whitehouse.gov:
President George W. Bush discusses the emergency supplemental bill with the press Tuesday, April 3, 2007, in the Rose Garden. “Democrat leaders in Congress seem more interested in fighting political battles in Washington than in providing our troops what they need to fight the battles in Iraq,” said the President. “If Democrat leaders in [...]

According to this report Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering cutting off funding for the Iraq War if President Bush vetoes the bill that will come out of committee setting a deadline for withdrawal.
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he will try to cut off funding for the Iraq war [...]

By a vote of 48-50 the Senate has rejected an amendment that would have removed a timeline from the military supplemental bill.
The Senate version requires withdrawal from Iraq to begin within 120 days. This is different from the House bill and will have to be reconciled in committee, but the vote is so [...]

If we didn’t already know it we know it now. Each major party is going to use the House vote from last week attaching ridiculous conditions on the military supplemental funding bill and plenty of pork to get the extra votes needed such as help for spinach growers, peanut storage help, dairy help etc. [...]

I’m going to quote from a Friday editorial in the San Diego Tribune in reference to all the pork that was added to the supplemental military spending bill that was passed in the House today.
I don’t know if this newspaper is conservative or liberal, but being based in San Diego tells me it is [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a victory for Democrats in an epic war-powers struggle and Congress’ boldest challenge yet to the administration’s policy.
Ignoring a White House veto threat, lawmakers voted 218-212, mostly along party lines, for a binding [...]