Dream Team votes with the tiny minority as the Senate votes 80-14 to fund foolish fighting for four more months ...

I'm not at all sure that Hillary's and Obama's votes were exactly profiles in courage or anything more than a political footnote to the day's events in Washington, but they at least stood up for supporting the troops -- by getting them out of harm's way. It was a done deal before they cast their votes though, and to what extent they participated in the behind-the-scenes deal making with the White House ... we will probably never know. But for now, their votes -- and those of a tiny number of others -- at least reflect how the majority of us feel today about continuing the awful carnage in Iraq.

And for what? No deadlines. No real timetables. A couple of pure-politics amendments dealing with the minimum wage (huh?) and Hurricane Katrina relief (double-huh?) were grafted into the final bill passed by both the House and the Senate--a big victory for Mr. Bush at a time when he really needs it as his house of cards is otherwise collapsing.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Look Like a Good bet for 2008