Senate OKs Iraq pullout   The Senate yesterday approved a bill calling for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq within a year, advancing the Democrat-controlled Congress toward a veto standoff with President Bush while money for troops starts to run out. 
Democrats hailed the 51-47 vote, mainly along party lines, as a victory for “the American people” [...]

Bush mocks pork in war funding   President Bush yesterday ridiculed House and Senate lawmakers for pork-laden Iraq war funding bills that set 2008 deadlines for full U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, vowing to veto what he called “arbitrary” limits on U.S. military commanders. 
Addressing a group of raucous ranchers at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association in [...]

Democrats insist Bush must compromise on Iraq   Congressional Democrats are showing no signs of backing down on their rebuke of the Iraq war, insisting President Bush will have to accept some sort of legislative timetable in exchange for the billions of dollars needed to fund the war. CNN
House GOP seeks to shield ‘John Doe’   House [...]

Obama The Aldermaniac   State Sen. Barack Obama’s self-injection into a Chicago city council run-off isn’t ordinarily a topic that earns space in the Hotline or on On Call. On On Call? In On Call? Within On Call? What’s the right preposition? Anyway.
But Sen. Barack Obama, the presidential candidate, gets a whole new level of scrutiny.
He’s [...]

Schneider: Elizabeth Edwards may be husband’s biggest asset   The personal is now political. We hear that all the time. Elizabeth Edwards has been called John Edwards’ greatest campaign asset. That may have been true Thursday with her display of courage and confidence.As she addressed a crowd of reporters in North Carolina about her cancer coming [...]

Elizabeth Edwards’ Cancer Returns, John Edwards Campaign to Continue   Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, has had a recurrence of cancer and it has spread from her breast to a rib bone, her husband announced Thursday.
He said the bone cancer can not be cured, it can only be treated.  FoxNews
Senate panel authorizes subpoenas [...]