A few progressive members not showing up to vote “no” could help Rahm’s whip count, so it’s possible they could delay and Leadership will bring it up when there are more absences.

Keep calling. . . tell members of Congress that you need them to show up and vote their conscience, the war is not something you take a dive on.

A thought experiment, now that we’ve got the CSRT transcripts of KSM and there’s an outpouring of internal threat to the Iranian regime.

Sources tell me Republicans will make this vote a campaign issue for Democrats in 2010 (details below).

This puts some of the Democrats in a very difficult position (See Red State for more on that), and some of them are gradually deciding to vote no on the legislation. There is bipartisan resistance to this bill, and Jane Hamsher is doing a good job whipping the vote over at Firedoglake. She has the current whip summary here.

Most importantly, Hamsher notes that “Blue Dogs are scared about what might happen in conservative districts if they cast that vote for a $100 billion European bank bailout.”

Mike Arcuri (D-NY) says this will be the last supplemental. Maybe this time it will be true.

Swine flu they were going to give up anyway.

“Not perfect” — yes, Maxine Waters made that point.

Well Eric Cantor, looks like you can believe what you read on liberal blogs. Because it appears that it’s Republicans that are being whipped, if a document prepared by Hoyer’s office today (6/16/2009) is any indication (PDF). And the rumor is that 50 GOP congressmen will vote “yes”

A few years ago on Air America, Al Franken had a pretty smart riff about what conservatives do when they get caught, as he put it, “taking a dump in the middle of the room.” Frank Gaffney, who took a dump in the middle of the room last week, is the latest example of this phenomenon.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday expressed doubt that Democratic leaders have the votes to pass the $105.9 billion war supplemental.

Keep calling. These people are getting strong-armed heavily to abandon everything they profess to believe in and making all Democrats look like unprincipled, sanctimonious jackasses who stand for nothing.

Whenever they get done naming post offices.

Must not have the votes yet.

In case you haven’t already heard, NYS Senator Hiram Monsserate who defected the Democratic caucus last week, along with Pedro Espada, in an attempt to oust Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith has -wait for it- rejoined the Democratic caucus.

There might be a collateral reason for him to do it this way.