• May 25, 2012
DEMOCRATS

November 9, 2006

Daily Briefing: Amazing Feats of Governance

by Alex Pareene  

  • A “chastened, conciliatory, and testy” President Bush announced Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation yesterday. [WP, NYT, LAT, USAT]

  • Replacement Robert M. Gates’s first order of business “is to generate the strategy for victory in Iraq.” [NYT, TIME]
  • Jim Webb snatches the crown from network news’s hand, anoints himself Senator. [WP, NYT, USAT]
  • Nancy Pelosi and The Flying Subpoenas will bring their act to the House big top in January. [WP]
  • Her first act will be the high-wire leadership pyramid balance. [The Hill]
  • Democrats draw strength from being, “the most diversified caucus in the world.” [NYT]
  • Karl Rove’s horses lost on Tuesday, so did a horse called Rove. [WSJ]

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