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Somebody’s talking to AP:

As Democratic leaders feud [nice trivialization there, AP!] with the White House on Iraq war spending, lawmakers from both parties are working quietly to break the impasse. House members will vote Thursday on a new Iraq bill hotly contested by the White House, opposed by nearly all Republicans and unlikely to survive in the Senate.

[A] dozen or so members in Congress [are] attempting to strike a Bipartisan compromise on the war…

And a “compromise” would look like what? More Friedman Units for Bush? Appointing Petraeus Consul by a consensus of the general will? Appointing Petraeus’s horse consul? Stamping tiny feet and waving tiny fists and getting really, really mad like the Moderate Republicans just did?

“We’ll see what happens,” said Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Ala. “A lot of us are coming together across the aisle. We’re under the radar now, but we’re meeting.”

Ah yes, Bud Cramer. Founder of the Blue Dogs. He’d betray Pelosi, the party, and the country in a heartbeat, wouldn’t he? Especially if he could hold onto the increasingly irrelevant Southern rump’s lock on the party.

So, that AP story chimes nicely with this Americablog story:  Read more