Last month, we reported in Supplemental 2.0 -- Short-Term War Funding? on a legislative strategy proposed by Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), seconded by House Appropriations chair David Obey (D-WI), to approve funding for soldiers only through July, but without any deployment timetables or restrictions in Supp. 1.0. We noted the White House would likely take a dim view of the idea. Indeed it now has; the NYT has WH spokesman Tony Snow saying yesterday that a short-term bill "provides a kind of uncertainty that really is not helpful to commanders." Last week, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that the House notion of funding the war only through July, "It's not anything that will fly in the Senate." But yesterday, this same aide told the NYT, "It is something that Senator Reid intends to take a look at." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has broken her silence on the idea, with the Times reporting today that she is "leaning toward the approach." As recently as last week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), per CQ, said "he does not favor passing a short-term measure to fund the troops for 60 days." Watch this space for a short-term developments on the short-term war funding idea, which seems to have more legs than we expected, but still probably not enough to "fly".