At the slow rate that House Democratic leaders are gaining votes to end the war, maybe by next summer they will have the numbers to override a presidential veto.
Yesterday’s 223-201 vote to draw down troop levels by next April fell far short of the 290 needed to override — and it added only five votes to the anti-war column compared with a similar vote last March. If that pace continues unchanged, picking up just five votes every four months, it would take at least a year for the House to add the 67 votes needed to wrest control of Iraq troop levels away from the president.
And by then there would be only a few months left of George W. Bush’s presidency. No wonder the president at his press conference yesterday stepped up the belligerent tone toward Congress. He knows he has a real chance to run out the clock.
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