An AP story this morning, Democrats not backing down on Iraq, not only flatly contradicts yesterday's Washington Post front-page headline, which drew a blog swat from us. It also details the short-term, "a la carte" approaches now under consideration by various House leaders. Under another a la catre plan, military functions would get funds identified as money for "troops," through Sept. 30. But it would guarantee other funding, generally described as "combat" functions, for only two months and create a mechanism for fencing off funding for those operations beyond mid-July. The AP said that another "short-term" funding idea was discussed in a closed door leadership meeting Thursday. But under this idea, offered by House Appropriations Committee chair David Obey (D-WI), members would vote separately on whether to fund some of the domestic spending in the Iraq bill that Bush opposed, such as agricultural assistance. According to a senior Democratic leadership aide, neither plan has been endorsed by Speaker Pelosi (D-CA), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), or by anyone in the Senate. Yet another option on the "Supp 2.0" table involves rolling certain items over into the next (FY 2008) war funding supplemental or, perhaps, a domestic supplemental spending bill -- which would allow additional funding for the Katrina zone and agriculture and wildfire disaster relief, for example, to remain 'off-budget' and not count against any budgetary domestic discretionary caps.