It had passed both houses of Congress, but was pulled from the war bill because of the President's threat to veto the entire bill. Proponents promise to get it to the President's desk in early '08, but Senators Levin and Kennedy said this had been the best chance to do that.
As one headline put it, the legislation is now a "casualty of war", because the Democrat leadership is trying to get a Defense Dept spending authorization bill to Bush's desk that will put them in the best political position.
Does it sound to anyone else like the Democrats are (again) being out-played by the Republicans (President and the minorities in Congress)? Backing down again, and telling supporters to be patient.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1&docID=news-000002637823
Here's the "deeply disappoint(ed)" reaction from the Human Rights Campaign: http://www.hrc.org/8435.htm
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It is difficult for me to conceive, at times, how Washington functions with these unrelated items daisy-chained. That is, I suppose, how negotiation manages to achieve consensus.
It will be a miserable election next year.
If Bush was not such a lying neocon sob I think I would like him.