Bizarre as it might seem, the Wall Street Journal is reporting "a surprising addition [to the Iraq supplemental bill] by the Democratic leadership: a minimum wage increase." What does this mean, asssuming Pelosi and Co. go forward with the plan?

• first, the Democratic leadership must be despairing that House liberals aren't seeing enough anti-war ammunition in the supplemental to support it
• second, leadership impatience with the minimum wage tax package logjam may have reached the point where it simply wants to cut the gordian knot
• third, maybe the view is that such a bill can clear the Senate, where only six additional votes on top of the 54 who voted for a clean minimum wage bill
• fourth, and that Bush can't possibly veto this package, despite its lack of small business emoluments?

War funding plus domestic bennies plus minimum wage -- could be a winning Democratic version of the Trifecta...