Pelosi, Reid to announce new cut and run plans

Mark your calendars.

It seems only too appropriate that the date they've chosen is April Fool's Day, 2008.

Four Iraq related amendments are to be introduced, two different withdrawal proposals, another deauthorization of the Iraq War proposal and proposals to prohibit the creation of permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, and a "readiness" initiative limiting deployments of U.S. soldiers and marines in Iraq by requiring the Pentagon to keep military units from being sent back to Iraq until they have been stateside as long as they were in the combat zone. John Murtha has a few tricks up his appropriations sleeve as well.

The stench of surrender is thick in the Demo caucus:

"The surge is a failure, it isn't working," said a Democratic aide familiar with the new initiative. "We just can't leave American soldiers out there dying and not do anything."