Not at all a surprise:

“WASHINGTON – In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the deadline would be added to legislation providing nearly $100 billion the Bush administration has requested for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

She told reporters the measure would mark the first time the new Democratic-controlled Congress has established a “date certain” for the end of U.S. combat in the four-year-old war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,100 U.S. troops.”

Pelosi is pandering to the Yellow Dogs of the Party by throwing this bone which is essentially a punt. If Democrats pull this off the result of the war belongs to them. Not something Blue Dog democrats want to happen.

Get ready for the coming meltdown.

UPDATE: Missed this, insurgent attacks down 80 percent! Damn, you mean the surge is working?