Republican Watch

We shall see:

"Cracks are starting to show in the near-monolithic Republican support for the Iraq War," according to Roll Call. Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), who was one of two Republicans in the House that voted in favor of the Iraq War supplmental bill, said that in the next few months, the number of Republicans "willing to stray from the party line will grow significantly."

Said Gilchrest: "They are going to start popping off...I think by midsummer we could see that happening, breaking the logjam."

Meanwhile, House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) "has described his strategy as forcing Republicans to vote 'again and again and again' to back the war until they tell Bush they've had enough. A string of Iraq votes are planned from now to October that will put Republicans on the spot. In addition to the new war supplemental, the upcoming fiscal 2008 Defense authorization and Defense appropriations bills will hit the House floor by the end of June."

Keep it up. Make them vote over and over and over again for the war. Front and center.