Same old same old mainstream line about dems lacking 60 votes to block a filibuster and the 67 necessary to override a veto. What isn't mentined in the story line on how Bush wins even while losing points today is the fact that Congress is not required to give him the supplemental funding he needs to continue to this policy.

But then what am I, a hayseed from Wisconsin, thinking? The democratic leadership is so tepid, remember the softball hearings in the House yesterday, and fearful that its tenuous hold on the so called levers of power would collapse in 2008 if it acted so boldly as to send and resend supplemental funding legislation with benchmarks to the president, and let him take the heat. Ooops, there I go again, imaging that Congress should have the same capability as the administration in bringing its story to us voting hayseeds!