It now appears that Keith Ellison will vote  the supplemental.  From the comments:

I just called Keith Ellison’s office and the person who answered confirmed to me that Mr. Ellison WILL BE VOTING NO on the supplemental.

Ellison puts us at 35 of the 39 votes we need.

Getting close.  Keep calling.

Keep dialing.

A bloody car wreck, as you might expect, that you just can’t help staring at.

Update

Grijalva signed a 2007 pledge not to vote for any war funding that does not include timeslines for withdrawal.  This one doesn’t, and Grijalva rightly voted against it the first time — and Grijalva rightly voted against it the first time — and has said he would do so again. Nothing has changed in the interim.  So why is he suddenly “torn?”

As Dennis Kucinich said:

“From what I can see, [members who so far have refused to bow to pressure from the administration and Pelosi] are concerned about going home and having to explain why they voted for the war when their constituents are opposed to it…”

Call Grijalva’s office in DC at (202) 225-2435, and in Arizona at (520) 622-6788 or (928) 343-7933 and ask him what’s up.

how are the Iranian protesters able to access Twitter?

On Friday, John Murtha was saying “we’ll pass it.” By Sunday, he wasn’t saying that any more. “Nancy’s working on it” was all he’d say.

By our whip count, we only need five more votes — but since I don’t know how Jim Cooper expects to vote for this and have a political future I’m going to “guess” we have 35.

Note: I’ll be on CSPAN tomorrow morning at 8:10 am talking about the supplemental. If you’re from McGovern’s district, call in and let’s talk about this – jh

Listen to this YouTube made a mere 5 days ago (June 10) of committed antiwar activist James McGovern, who was dead set against voting for the supplemental if it didn’t contain troop withdrawal provisions:

• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei orders…probe of election?
• Opposition party banned.
• Disturbing.
• Nate crunches the numbers.
• The US response.
• Stay the course.
• Health care change you can believe in.
• Iranian election = Obama’s fault.

A starbursts of irony