As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) move toward an accommodation with the White House over funding for the war in Iraq, they are also moving toward a civil war within their own party. If Pelosi and Reid agree to give Bush a new bill providing funding for the war without a deadline for troop withdrawal, they will redeem their party’s image nationally and show their support for the troops, but they will alienate their left wing. A bitter and divisive battle will ensue — one that could cost the Democrats the White House in 2008. So who's got the popcorn, nachos and cokes (or other beverage)?
OTOH, this sort of assumes that Stretch and Dingy Harry are *not* part of the left wing of the DemonRat party. I think they are, and always have been.
If memory serves correctly, he voted to limit partial birth abortion. He may be an old leftie but his state is not on the East Coast. He will eventially have to moderate or he will go the way of little Dick Gephart.