This would be sweet justice if it happens:

Senate Democratic leaders intend to unveil a plan next week to repeal the 2002 resolution authorizing the war in Iraq in favor of narrower authority that restricts the military’s role and begins withdrawals of combat troops…

In both chambers, Democratic lawmakers are eager to take up binding legislation that would impose clear limits on U.S. involvement in Iraq after nearly four years of war. But Democrats remain divided over how to proceed. Some want to avoid the funding debate altogether, fearing it would invite Republican charges that the party is not supporting the troops. Others take a more aggressive view, believing the most effective way to confront President Bush’s war policy is through a $100 billion war-spending bill that the president ultimately must sign to keep the war effort on track.

The 2002 resolution, which had Karl Rove’s pudgy political fingerprints all over it, was rammed through Congress in October, immediately before the mid-term elections in order to get Democrats in Congress on the record about Bush’s bogus war plans.

The resolution has had long-ranging political ramifications. It successfully snared Bush’s opponent in 2004, Sen. John Kerry, who stupidly said, on the record, that he voted for the resolution before he voted against it. Even now, 2008 frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton is being pressured to apologize for her vote in favor of it.

Repealing the resolution would likely put the president and the Congress on a course toward a constitutional showdown over the War Powers Act and the president’s ability to wage war without congressional interference.