They voted no on a resolution explicitly authorizing the war, but then they voted no again when asked to stop the funding. does that count as a split decision from the president s war in libya policy? kind of. but there was less of a split than you might think. among the democrats who voted no on defunding the war were the majority of the progressive caucus. the democratic party s liberals in the house. and a progressive caucus put out a statement today clarifying that they are very much against the war in libya, raising the prospect that the reason a majority of them voted no on defunding is because, as some of them explained, that defunding bill, they thought, would not really defund the war. in other words, they really do want to defund the war, and they don t feel like they have had a real chance to vote for that yet. so no, it doesn t really look like a split decision from the house today on the president s war in libya. it looks like it more might be more like two thumbs down on ....

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