We now have verification from CNN and from Fox. (One for the left and one for the right)
HEH.
CNN's headline: "Withdrawal timetable dropped from war spending bill"
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congressional Democrats plan to send to President Bush a war-spending bill without a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, two Democratic leadership aides tell CNN.
Earlier this month, Bush vetoed a war spending bill passed by the Democratically-controlled Congress that included a timetable for withdrawal. The president has insisted that he will not sign any bill that includes such a provision.
The bill is expected to include benchmarks that the Iraqi government would have to achieve. The bill is also expected to require the president to provide numerous reports to Congress before August 2007 on the Iraqi government's progress, the aides said.
If the Iraqi government fails to meet the benchmarks, the aides said, reconstruction funds could be cut. The bill may also allow the president to waive the penalties for failing to meet the benchmarks if he feels they are necessary.
Fox's Headline: "House Majority Leader Confirms Democrats Gave Up on Troop Withdrawal Timetable in Iraq Funding Bill"
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer confirmed Tuesday a final Iraq spending bill will not include a deadline for troop withdrawals, but promised that Democrats would try to end the war using next year's spending bills.
"We can't pass something without the president's signature and the president can't pass something without our agreement," Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters. "So we can be at a standoff and go back and forth at each other, or we can come to an agreement."
The House planned to vote Thursday on the bill.
While the precise details remained in flux, officials said the legislation would likely threaten billions of dollars in reconstruction aid if the Iraqi government failed to make progress on political and security goals.
But Democrats planned to drop provisions from an earlier bill — vetoed by the president — that would have demanded troops start coming home this fall.
Right from the horses....oh sorry, the donkey's mouth folks.
No Timelines.
I showed you some of the more "colorful" reactions from the left yesterday also, as well as the newest polls showing the American people, the actual "majority" believes we can and should be successful in Iraq before planning for withdrawal.
What the far left democrats cannot seem to get through their think skulls, is that it really is not the Democratic politicians fault that they have not been able to force America to surrender to our enemies.
They didn't and still do not have the votes to defund.
Thats the bottom line and they can stomp their feet and scream, cuss and threaten all they want, but that is the reality and no matter how good they are at ducking reality, ignoring it and hiding from it, it doesn't change it.
[Update] Time's Swampland is reporting that Pelosi may vote no on this bill.
It will split the Democratic caucus in half, with as many as 120 Democrats voting no. Among the nays, I'm told, will be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who will have negotiated a bill that she thinks is the best option for House Democrats but which she personally can't support.....
For show?
Yeah, poor surrending, terrorist visiting, treasonous, traitorous, Pelosi.
My heart bleeds for her. (NOT)
That isn't going to help her with her base supporters because they just do not understand that no matter what she does, says, or how much she bribes, buys, cajoles or threatens, she doesn't have the votes needed to override a presidential veto.
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