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Update: I have been informed that the good Senator will actually be presenting his anti-earmark legislation this week for unanimous consent, the better to get it out of committee limbo. Either way, excellent news.

This is interesting:

In McConnell tactic, veto pen
By Elana Schor
March 27, 2007
The Senate’s Republican leader yesterday left the door open for his conference to allow the Democrats’ emergency war supplemental to proceed to the president’s desk for a veto, even if the GOP fails in its bid to strip the measure’s target date for troop withdrawal.

Finishing the Senate supplemental this week is integral to preserving prompt funding for active-duty troops, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters. While McConnell and his fellow Republicans are confident that the Democrats’ 120-day window for the first redeployments from Iraq will not become law, the Kentuckian acknowledged the likely political endgame.

“The final bill is likely to have the offending language in it because that’s in the House version,” McConnell said. He added later: “If that’s to be in the final bill, which the majority will be able to determine in conference, we need time to re-pass the bill without the offending language.”

Read on.

The article goes on to analyze the various permutations that might take place in the Senate over this bill. There's the withdrawal language - and Sen. McConnell is carefully not mentioning that by some counts he'll be the one going into conference with the majority - and then there's the earmark language. Sen. DeMint's going to load on his earmark-disclosure legislation: this, of course, has nothing to do with troop funding, but then again, neither do spinach subsidies.

This is fascinating stuff, provided that you're as sad an individual as I am. If McConnell and the Senate GOP manage to send to the President a bill that does have the earmark-disclosure legislation and has stripped out the existing obnoxious pork and powers down Pelosi's plan to something that's toothless (not to mention, something that's actually Constitutional)... well. We'll have to see then, won't we?