Daily Briefing: Pride Only Hurts
* Waning paranoia about the Patriot Act goes back up to "red" as the FBI is cited for surfing Americans' personal information like you surf for porn. [ WP , NYT ]
* If an Iraq War spending plan gets rewritten a thousand times, then vetoed, willNancy Pelosicry on teevee? [ WP , NYT , LAT ]
*Alberto Gonzalezhas never met a shady "fire 'n replace" scheme he didn't like.Arlen Specterhas never met an Attorney General that he did like. [ WP ]
*Chuck HagelasksJohn McCain, "Must you betray me with a kiss?" [ WP ]
* "Bush Doctrine" of suspicious first-punch throwing will influence the next President, whoever she is. [ WP ]
* Morally unassailable poor kids' health insurance program woefully under funded. [ USAT ]
*Newt Gingrich: hate him for the hypocrisy, love him for the skirt chasing. [ AP ]