Happy 8th anniversary!

Today the house voted 218 - 212 to approve a supplemental spending bill that sets benchmarks for progress in Iraq and would require the withdrawal of American combat forces from Iraq by August 2008. As expected, President Bush promised to veto the bill if it makes it to him in its current form.

One notable lawmaker who opposes the bill is Texas Republican Ron Paul. He has released this memo which explains his unique position on this issue.

See Sullivan.

Dan Froomkin has some interesting questions about White House e-mails.

[I]n spite of the embarrassing revelations contained in the e-mails turned over by the Justice Department to the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, the general rule at the White House is that if it’s really sensitive, don’t put it in writing — certainly not in an e-mail.

That stuff gets archived.

The president himself, for instance, never uses e-mail at all.

And it now turns out that some of his aides sometimes avoid using their official White House e-mail accounts — the ones that get automatically archived.