HuffPo - Pelosi's New Plan: No War Funding Bill If Bush Vetoes Iraq Withdrawal

Under pressure to support the troops but end the war, House Democrats said Thursday they would send President Bush $50 billion for combat operations on the condition that he begin withdrawing troops from Iraq.

The proposal, similar to one Bush vetoed earlier this year, would identify a goal of ending combat entirely by December 2008. It would require that troops spend as much time at home as they do in combat, as well as effectively ban harsh interrogation techniques like waterboarding.

In a private caucus meeting, Pelosi told rank-and-file Democrats that the bill was their best shot at challenging Bush on the war. And if Bush rejected it, she said, she did not intend on sending him another war spending bill for the rest of the year.

"This is not a blank check for the president," she said later at a Capitol Hill news conference. "This is providing funding for the troops limited to a particular purpose, for a short time frame."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071108/us-iraq/

then i can live with it. Reluctantly.

always has always will. bet cheney offered go go hunting with her family.

She won't send him any more money for this questionable war and occupation for a whole another two months. I'm sure our first dictatorial executive branch is quaking.

Yeah, you guys are right. Why should I expect anything different?

We're in November.

nance is throwing down the gauntlet. :eyes:

Please, don't do this to us.

You've threatened to do this sort of thing before. "We'll put an end to the war, stop torture, cut off domestic wiretaps, yadda, yadda, yadda." We think, wow, this is great, they're really going to fight this time. Then, In the end, you collapse like a cheap cardboard cutout the moment Bush or Cheney say "Support the Troops" or "Look Terrorists!".

It's getting old and frankly, Madam Speaker, it's making you look rather silly.

and not for keeps.

I thought that was pretty clear by now.