Ain't this cute:

Several Republican senators told President Bush's top national security aide privately Wednesday that they did not want Bush to wait until September to change course in Iraq.

Among those who embarked on this fool's errand were Sens. Pete Domenici and Lamar Alexander, both co-sponsors of Sen. Ken Salazar's (D-CO) bi-partisan S. 1545, which would implement the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. Well, sort of. Any mention of the withdrawal part of the Iraq Study Group's recommendations demands no actual policy change, rather it calls for a sense of the senate to be agreed upon on the conditions that certain benchmarks are met. It is this bill that the senators urged Hadley to urge the president to embrace NOW, not in September.

Mcjoan delivers a thorough smackdown of the ISG recommendation bill HERE.

This meeting comes as Senator Olympia Snowe announced that she will join her fellow Republican Sens. Gordon Smith and Chuck Hagel next week in voting with Democrats on the Levin/Reed amendment, which would mandate troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days, to be concluded by April 30, 2008.

It also comes the day before the White House is to release its 23-page progress report on Iraq that will announce that the government in Iraq has accomplished none of the benchmarks laid out for it. After the report is issued, Senator Warner intends to call publicly for a "change in Iraq policy." If he wants to do as much good as many think he has the potential to do, as a revered member of the senate, he will urge his fellow Republican senators to back Levin/Reed.

And that's not all happening tomorrow. Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would be taking up its own version of Levin/Reed this week.

Pelosi said: "The American people have rejected the President's failed policies in Iraq and his war without end. The situation on the ground in Iraq is worsening, and the Iraqi government has failed to meet the benchmarks set in law. This week, every Member of the House will have an opportunity to vote to set a new direction in Iraq.  The American people want Congress to bring our troops home, refocus our efforts to fighting terrorism, and hold the Bush Administration accountable."

That vote could come as soon as tomorrow night.