Unsurprisingly, President Bush vetoed the Democrat cut-and-run spending bill.
Over at Redstate, they have a good analysis of the situation.
Let me translate this for you: the new bill will have no withdrawal timetable. What it will have will be all that lovely pork that your most ethical Congressional leaders in history stuffed into this shambling zombie of a bill in order to get a one vote majority in the House, coupled with a non-binding call for benchmarks. The President will sign that one - reluctantly - because the military needs the blipping money. He'll then ignore the benchmarks as being an obnoxious attempt at legislative interference in the executive branch of government. Then your Dear Leaders will sit all y'all down and gently explain that at least this way it's all on the record, so, really, you won after all.
Now give them some more money for the 2008 elections.
To put it more simply yet: this entire situation has been an exercise in allowing Democratic politicians to raid the public treasury and then expecting their base to praise them for it. Which they undoubtedly will.
And as for my suggestion? I suggest that the people who create a replacement supplemental bill read this document beforehand. I blipping well expect that the people trying to justify their Party's antics do so as well.
I'm saddened that all the pork will still go through, but at least this has been a poke in the eye to Defeatocrats.
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