The emergency spending bill that the House passed only funds the withdrawal of troops. The bill represents about a quarter of the $196 billion Bush requested for combat operations in the 2008 budget year, which began Oct 1. It would compel an unspecified number of troops to leave Iraq within 30 days, a requirement Bush…

Well, he might as well have vowed it because this comes close to doing it: A budget dispute erupted into a full-scale battle Tuesday as President Bush vetoed the Democrats’ top-priority domestic spending bill and the party’s Senate leader threatened to withhold war funding if the president does not agree to pull out of Iraq.…

Pretty convenient timing for Hillary, isn’t it? Right before the next debate. Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy. The governor, who is to announce the move formally on Wednesday, said in an interview…

According to Drudge: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday’s Dem debate on Hillary. ‘This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,’ top Clinton insider explains. ‘Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull ‘a Russert.” Blitzer is set to moderate…

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