Pelosi hints at funding action on "surge"

From Think Progress, the transcript of Pelosi on Face the Nation:

SCHIEFFER: So, you’ve told him what you don’t want to do, and that is to expand the size of the force in Iraq even on a short-term basis. But what if he decides to do that? What will be your action then?

PELOSI: If the president chooses to escalate the war, in his budget request we want to see a distinction between what is there to support the troops who are there now. The American people and the Congress support those troops. We will not abandon them.

But if the president wants to add to this mission, he is going to have to justify it. And this is new for him because up until now the Republican Congress has given him a blank check with no oversight, no standards, no conditions. And we’ve gone into this situation, which is a war without end, which the American people have rejected.

Unfortunately, he'll just pull the funds from other areas of the budget and then claim that the dirty Democrats were the cause of underfunding in those quarters. Hell, he might ever flash the bird at Congress and order the Treasury to print him some money over their dead bodies. Question: Who will stop him?

I'm afraid I have Atrios' simple answers to simple questions: Nobody.