Daily Briefing: Amazing Feats of Governance
- 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]
