You know what I think about the House Dem Leadership's Iraq supplemental funding bill. But what do I know? I am just a citizen who has thought it through for months, looking at facts, language and history. Why not listen to a DC Beltway Media type. They know how things really work right? so let's see what Tom Edsall has to say:

The Democratic leadership . . . has busied itself behind closed doors, producing a toothless, loophole-ridden resolution that showcases the party’s generic antiwar stance while trying to establish troop readiness requirements, benchmarks for Iraqi progress and withdrawal timetables. The resolution — more precisely, a set of deals intended to paper over intraparty factions — is the result of a process better suited to a highway bill than national security. This patchwork proposal . . . risks setting the Democrats up for a poisonous share of responsibility for the failure of United States foreign policy, while amplifying questions regarding Democratic competence on military matters.

Hmmmm. That does not sound good. So what is the political reason for this bill again?