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are not and never have been friends or allies of the far left blogs. Just look at Joe Lieberman if you don't believe me. The far left, drunk on power, and with never ending resources from George Soros is ready and willing to go with scorched earth politics and burn anyone and everyone that gets in there way, including non compliant members of their own party. The rest of America must wake up because they are downright dangerous.

Assuming that the weak-kneed Republicans who visited the WH yesterday can be counted on (for now) to hold firm, then I just don't see a whole lot of available options for the Democrats.

Bush has said he'd veto a short-funding bill and anything with a timetable. He's said that he will compromise on establishing a set of benchmarks -- which is something I've been touting for a long time.

I think the Iraqi government has to know precisely what's expected of it. But I think it's a mistake to say "Do this, or we're gone." For one thing, it's no secret that the benchmarks set by the Democrats were unachievable -- by design.

Obviously, the left is going to be apoplectic. But I don't see any way to get the votes necessary in both houses and the president's signature without something along these lines.

And that probably means that the final bill will be voted on unanimously by Republicans (except, of course, for the Ron Paul types) and will have the support of at least the Blue Dog Democrats, if not a significant portion of the Democratic leadership.

Even if the Democrat leaders don't outwardly support the bill, I think they'll give the green light to the Blue Dogs to do so.

It's high time the leftys propose primary challenges to unseat the moderate to conservative Democrats they elected to win a majority with six months ago! You know, take their country back from the people they just hand-picked.