Author: fairleft

Let’s assume the whole Iraq funding fight for Congress was just “political foreplay,” as a “Democratic leadership source” told CNN on Tuesday (emphasis added throughout): A senior Democratic senator...

As usual, the ‘progressive’ blogosphere is jumping the “We give up!” gun and w-h-i-n-i-n-g like crazy. People, the key Iraq funding bill is still in play! The blogo-whine is about the news that’s...

(Not a slow news day at all, Booman.) Are the Congressional Democrats as we speak caving on Iraq (see the AP’s Dems set war bill without Iraq timeline)? I’m not so sure, and I sure don’t think we should...

Senate Democrats have apparently decided to disappear the great House bill (which had only 2 months of funding and then a vote in July that might have been the showdown on funding, and then another vote in September that even...

(Crossposted at myleftwing ) As far as I’m concerned, Senator Obama yesterday let the cat out of the bag: the Democrats are going to capitulate and let President Bush have his ‘clean’ Iraq supplemental bill....