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POPSDem Mutiny on Climate Bill Grows, Says Peterson 
Peterson has warned that the bill put together by Waxman and Energy and Environment subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) will fail if agriculture-related provisions aren’t altered, and he’s said he has as many as 45 votes on his side. That number of Democratic defections would certainly doom the prospects of passing the bill in the House. Peterson threatened to have enough votes to kill the bill if he didn’t get satisfaction, while Rangel said he wanted to focus on healthcare first, and leave the climate change bill for a later time. Pelosi stepped in on June 3, demanding all chairmen square their business by June 19. But Peterson said that deadline is looking tough to meet. And while the House seems stuck, momentum appears to be building in the Senate to follow the House’s lead of enacting as big a bill as possible. Following Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) recent comments that “If can do it, we can do it,” a group of 25 senators,
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POPSGolden Falsie Award--Left Cup The Iraq war funding triangulation continues today. In early December, the Wall Street Journal reported that Democratic leaders, in order to avoid being seen either as capitulating to Bush on Iraq or as under-funding the military, "are looking at the option of advancing more money for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan." Meanwhile, "responsible" war critics are being encouraged to wait for General David Petraeus's spring 2008 report, much as they were previously for Petraeus's September 2007 report. It reminds us of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's infamous, never-ending six month timeframe for evaluating progress in Iraq.
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