Daily Briefing: Must Try Harder
* Witness the giant cow balls ofPete Domenici, who uses the Justice Department for political mud-slinging and is happy to admit it. [ WP , NYT ]
* The "new" Iraq strategy - why worry? [ WP ]
*Barry HusseinandH Dot Clintonkeep their eyes on the prize. [ WP , NYT ]
* Calling secretary of veterans affairsJim Nicholsona partisan hack causes, "a calmness to come over him." [ NYT ]
*Robert Gatesisn't Donald Rumsfeld, and that's half the battle. [ WP ]
*John Ashcroftwon't shut his whorish mouth about the satellite radio merger. [ WSJ ]
* Ah, the '70s: an age when Vice Presidential candidates with diagnosed mental illness were actually discouraged from running. [ NYT ]