You say:

“John Dickerson at Slate thinks that Senator Ted Kennedy is on his own in wanting to ’stop the surge’ via cutting off war funding. I think on that score, he’s incorrect”

You link to a piece that says Murtha also wants to cut off funds. That very point is in my piece:

“Kennedy may find more allies on the House side. On Sunday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi hinted that Democrats might cut off funding for the troop increase when Bush makes his supplemental budget request to keep the war going. John Murtha, who chairs the defense appropriations committee, where the supplemental would be debated, is planning to hold hearings within a week to pick apart the president’s plan and perhaps put forward his own surge-killing legislation to limit funding and troop levels.”