House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters Thursday that he would likely support bipartisan legislation that would require President Bush to report on his Iraq withdrawal plans.
The bill, H.R. 3087, would require the Bush administration and Pentagon officials to report regularly on the status of their plans for withdrawing U.S. troops.
"I would be shocked if the Pentagon already didn't have this plan sitting on the shelf. That's what they do over at the Pentagon: They plan for every kind of contingency known to man," Boehner told reporters. "So I would expect that, if a bill on the floor looks like the bill that came out of the committee, I would expect all of us to be for it."
Granted, if Boehner really wants to engage the blurring strategy, he is going to have to sell it harder than this. In his comment he admits that the bill won't actually require the adminisatron to do anything it has not already done. However, I have a feeling that when said "bi-partisanhip" legislation actually passes, it will be sold by most talking heads as a real compromise, if not a real step toward withdrawal.
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