Daily Briefing: Dodge City
* IfNancy Pelosican get Democrats to shut-up and get in line, the supplemental Iraq funding bill will have all the troops home by October 2008. Hmm, October. [ WP ]
*Scooter'sappeals process could last until "late 2008." See what they're doing there? [ WP , NYT ]
* How many Justice Department employees does it take to fire 8 US attorneys? [ WP , NYT ]
*John Edwardswon't allow his golden visage to benefit, "the largest mainstream cable news audience in America." [ WP ]
*Joe WilsonandValerie Plameare moving to dry New Mexico to wait for obscurity to wash over them. [ NYT ]
* Federal employees in Alaska forbidden to discuss "polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated to do so." [ NYT ]
* Congressional ethics loophole means your alma mater could send you and a member of your choice scuba-diving in Bora Bora, no questions asked. [ USAT ]
* "All told, 2008 is shaping up as the worst presidential year in three decades to be"John McCain. [ WSJ ]