Or will we discover that they are as delusionally self serving (and self destructive) as we already know Bush is?

If Bush does veto the bill tonight will Pelosi back Reid-Feingold or some other real method of defunding, or will she treat the public with the same insulting assumption of stupidity the republicans and Bush have for 7 years, and lie and say "we tried to end it" but Bush wouldn't play nice?

And if she does... will people believe her?

"To put this in a simple army metaphor, the Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL, that is 'absent without leave.' He neither acts nor talks as though he is in charge. Rather, he engages in tit-for-tat games.

"Some in Congress on both sides of the aisle have responded with their own tits-for-tats. These kinds of games, however, are no longer helpful, much less amusing. They merely reflect the absence of effective leadership in a crisis. And we are in a crisis.

Almost two years ago he said:

When the president says he is staying the course it reminds me of the man who has just jumped from the Empire State Building. Half-way down he says, `I am still on course.' Well, I would not want to be on course with a man who will lie splattered in the street. I would like to be someone who could change the course...

Within minutes of Mr. Bush's veto being announced, corporate press services nationwide began reporting the story. Overwhelmingly the headline phrase of choice appears to contain some reference to Bush vetoing the "Iraq Withdrawal" bill. In fact, there is no "Iraq Withdrawal" bill. What has been vetoed is the Iraq Emergency Supplemental Spending Bill. The White House has sought to spin the bill as a withdrawal bill because withdrawal from Iraq was added to the measure by Congress. The headline chosen by most US corporate news services appears to aid the White House's public relations effort.

Reuters: "Bush vetoed legislation on Tuesday that would have required him to begin withdrawing U.S. combat troops"

"Failure in Iraq should be unacceptable to the civilized world," Bush said in remarks at Central Command headquarters, where the United States' coalition partners were meeting this week.

You should have thought of that, Mr. Bush, before you lied us into an illegal war against a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks.

And with that, Bush used a veto (something he never does) to deny troops the funding he says they need urgently. Amazing that this man can dress himself in the morning, is it not?