UPDATE: what would happen if the Dems were to do what they say?

So the funding bill approved by the House is rejected by the GOP in the Senate. It's same old, same old that has been going on for the last year, The Washington Post reports. No surprise here. The Bushdogs will wag their tails, pant in fear, and drool all over themselves.

The Democrats now have to put OUR money where their mouths are -

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) said he may bring the Democratic bill back to the floor in December. He and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have decided that Bush will not receive more war funding this year unless he accepts Democratic withdrawal terms.

This is what 60%+ of all Americans want.

The White House response?

That is out of the question, said White House spokesman Tony Fratto, who dismissed the Democratic vote as a political stunt.

"Once again, they tried to pass a bill that provides incremental funding, tries to micromanage the war from the halls of Congress," Fratto said. Democrats "know that such a bill will be vetoed, should it ever come to the president's desk," he said. "They know this because we've been through this dozens of times now."

And they need to keep going through this over and over and over and over OR not even consider a special funding bill for Iraq. The Constitution clearly states that the Congress has the only power to fund war. If they don't fund it because they can't pass a bill or no even present a bill for a vote, they are doing their job as proscribed by the Constitution.

The Tsar needs to understand this. The Tsar needs to get over it. Maybe, then, he will somehow realize that there really wasn't anything to get over except his self-serving, unadulterated hatred for the Constitution...

One thing that would help is for each of the Democratic candidates for president to make a definitive statement saying that they support the Congress in this. Enough of the rhetoric of My presidency will get us out of.... They need to make a strong statement each time the Congress takes the action it did and each time Bush vetoes what they do, that they support the continued effort of the House and the Senate to reinstate and reinforce the process of government that Bush has nearly destroyed.

just do it...