The Senate Passes the Supplemental Spending Blank Check

Well, the Democrats did it.

On the upshot, Hillary and Obama did vote against it... after the bill already had enough votes to pass. Now it would seem that this is a bad thing, but somehow, I doubt that either Obama or Hillary would even consider being dumb enough to support this at this point.

They are too far into the race and they know that the people will not support any Democrat who supported this bill. The Democrats, as said before, were mandated to end this war at all costs. If they ran Bush into a corner and simply ran the military out of funding (which by the way wouldn't actually do any harm to the troops, it would just give Congress room to end this war in short order), they would be viewed as better for it.

At this point, the only lesson we can take away is "Never trust a politician."