Within a few short hours today, our blog this morning, Mixed Signals on Short-Term War Funding Idea was overtaken by events. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) until very recently publicly opposed a short-term approach to Iraq war funding. The Murtha/Obey plan calls for providing $43 billion, or half of the president's funding request, without the soldier withdrawal timetables or domestic funding in Supp. 1.0 -- but only through July. Today, both Pelosi and Hoyer endorsed it. Moreover, a Pelosi aide announced today that a vote on this version of the supplemental would be held on the House floor this Thursday or Friday. Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) has voiced strong opposition. A spokesperson for Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) said, "It's not anything that will fly in the Senate." But that was last week. On Monday, this same aide told the NYT, "It is something that Senator Reid intends to take a look at." The Administration, via spokesperson Tony Snow, came out in opposition to the proposal as "a kind of a start-and-stop measure." The bill includes political benchmarks for the Iraquis. A Bush veto of the bill might be difficult to explain to the American public. As we said in our blog this morning: "Watch this space. [T]he short-term war funding idea, which seems to have more legs than we expected," may now have enough to make it.