Daily Briefing: A Change is Gonna Come
* Former US PresidentGerald Fordis still dead. [ WP , NYT ]
*Kissinger: Still evil, sycophantic sonuvabitch. [ NYT ]
* The Democrats who now control congress argued among themselves briefly over whether they should let Republicans help draft legislation, then decided to bind and gag them instead. [ WP ]
* Boy, we had thisgreatstrategy for winning the war in Iraq, and then all this chaos started going down, it sucked. But seriously, it was a great plan. You woulda loved it. [ NYT ]
* Thousands of Iraqis are fleeing their country, we were gonna let 500 into the U.S. this year. [ NYT ]
* 3,000 dead in Iraq, and most of America doesn't know one of those 3,000. [ WP ]
* The NRA has some crazy new pamphlet warning its members that the the new democrats will steal their guns, even though the new Democrats are pretty damn pro-gun. Also, someone forgot to credit Wonkette. [ WP ]
*Jeb Bush'sofficial Florida Gubernatorial portrait features a bible and a Blackberry, Bush family will never, ever, ever go away. Also, he uses emoticons. [ NYT ]
* Breaking: People aren't very good at giving up bad habits. Doctors say, "change comes from the heart, not the head." You should probably stop seeing any doctor who says that. [ WP ]
* Former Iraqi PresidentSaddam Husseinis still dead. [ USAT ]