along with their classification as vertebrates

The enemy within:

Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against using congressional power to force a quick end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration’s options.

That’s not what I call it.  I call it chickenshiite.  If you haven’t the courage of your convictions nor the testicular fortitude to stand up and call for a direct cut-off of funding and declare a vote for defeat, get the hell offa my planet.

The legislative strategy will be supplemented by a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign designed to pressure vulnerable GOP incumbents into breaking with President Bush and forcing the administration to admit that the war is politically unsustainable.

Produced, no doubt, by alZawahiri’s production company.  And paid for my ME?!?!?!? I think not.

Pelosi and other top Democrats are not yet prepared for an open battle with the White House over ending funding for the war, and they are wary of Republican claims that Democratic leaders would endanger the welfare of U.S. troops. The new approach of first reducing the number of troops available for the conflict, while maintaining funding levels for units already in the field, gives political cover to conservative House Democrats who are nervous about appearing “anti-military” while also mollifying the anti-war left, which has long been agitating for Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to be more aggressive.

Though I fail to see how this could possibly avoid abandoning the troops in harm’s way.

The House strategy is being crafted quietly, even as the chamber is immersed this week in an emotional, albeit mostly symbolic masturbatory [e-C], debate over a resolution expressing opposition to Bush’s plan to “surge” 21,500 more troops into Iraq.

Sneaky? Slithery underhanded weasly creepy… [oh, no!  that’s nuance.]

“There’s a D-Day coming in here, and it’s going to start with the supplemental and finish with the ‘08 [defense] budget,” said Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, who chairs the Air and Land Forces subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.

STFU and go back to selling prostitot wear, you legacy loser.

“What we have staked out is a campaign to stop the war without cutting off funding” for the troops, said Tom Mazzie of Americans Against Escalation of the War in Iraq. “We call it the ‘readiness strategy.’”

Tom Mazzie [muzzie? irony?] is the spokespuppet for the “andi-war left”—the owners of Peloisi / Murtha, et al.  They claim to be [yet another] coalition among:

SEIU [Service Employees International Union]
MoveOn.org Political Action
Center for American Progress *cough*Hillary*cough*
USAction
Win Without War
Vote Vets [Wes Clark]
Campaign for America’s Future
USSA [United States Student Association]

that’s one helluva vipers’ nest.

Murtha’s proposal, which has been kept under tight wraps, is likely to pass the House next month or in early April as part of the supplemental spending bill, Democratic insiders said, if the language remains tightly focused and does not threaten funding levels for combat forces already in the field. The battle will then shift to the Senate. Anti-war groups like Mazzie’s are prepared to spend at least $6.5 million on a TV ad campaign and at least $2 million more on a grass-roots lobbying effort. Vulnerable GOP incumbents like Sens. Norm Coleman of Minnestoa, Susan Collins of Maine, Gordon Smith of Oregon and John Sununu of New Hampshire will be targeted by the anti-war organizations, according to Mazzie and former Rep. Tom Andrews, D-Maine, head of the Win Without War Coalition.

...If the Senate does not approve these new funding restrictions, or if Senate Republicans filibuster the supplemental bill, Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership would then be able to ratchet up the political pressure on the White House to accede to their demands by “slow-walking” the supplemental bill. Additionally, House Democrats could try to insert the Murtha provisions into the fiscal 2008 defense authorization and spending bills, which are scheduled to come to the floor later in the year.

“We are not cutting funding for any [unit] in Iraq,” said the aide, who admitted the Democratic maneuver would not prevent the president from sending some additional forces to Baghdad. “We want to limit the number who can go ... We’re trying to build a case that the president needs to change course.”

that’s not called “building a case,” Sonny; that’s called outright blackmail.

Their outfit:  MoveCongress.org There’s a lovely interview with Lynn Woolsey *spit* bleating Sheehanesquely.

Note the look on ThankYouNancy’s face.

I wonder if Murtha’s uncomfortable with her hand up there… *shudder* working his mouth.