[jdege]

Neal Knox's latest alert is about a White House "Statement of Administrative Policy" calling for the liability protection bill to be passed un-amended.

He says this is a message to Republican Senators that the President doesn't want the AWB on his desk.

I have no idea how this is going to play out. I could easily see putting in the AWB renewal amendment so as to get sufficient Dem support to block any filibuster, and then stripping it out again in the inevitable conference committee. So I'm not going to scream and shout, yet.

But if Bush signs the AWB renewal, in any form, he's going to lose.

[Mulder]

Neal Knox's latest alert is about a White House "Statement of Administrative Policy" calling for the liability protection bill to be passed un-amended

Knox is quite optimistic that we aren't going to get screwed this time.

Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I've seen it happen way too many times to rest easy.

[El Gato]

I could easily see putting in the AWB renewal amendment so as to get sufficient Dem support to block any filibuster, and then stripping it out again in the inevitable conference committee. So I'm not going to scream and shout, yet.

Sounds about as smart as signing CFR, and hoping the Supreme Court will take out the Unconstitutional parts (most of it actually, but very little of it according the 9 in black).

[looscnnn]

"calling for the liability protection bill to be passed un-amended."

Wanna bet that it has at least one rider.

"this is a message to Republican Senators that the President doesn't want the AWB on his desk."

Problem is that Fienstien is not GOP and she will tack on the AWB. Also, do you think that McCain will follow that?

" I could easily see putting in the AWB renewal amendment so as to get sufficient Dem support to block any filibuster, and then stripping it out again in the inevitable conference committee."

Can we trust the committee to do that?