Daily Briefing: Dix
* National Governors Association winter meeting like a Miss America pageant -- Governors just want to help poor little sick children. [ WP , NYT ]
* The Governors also give advice to each other about running for President.Haley Barbourfulfils his contractual obligation for one Civil War reference per sound bite. [ NYT ]
* In other antebellum news,Al Sharptonfinds out his ancestors were slaves to more than just a buffet line. [ WP ]
*John Edwards'staff orders him to spend Sunday night watchingA Few Good Men after telling Bob Schieffer that "Americans can handle the truth." [ WP ]
* Congress living by the letter, not spirit of the "no joyriding in lobbyists' Gulfstreams" law. [ USAT ]
* White House warns Pakistan that aid money might decrease if they don't find Osama, and that it's totally Democrats fault. [ NYT ]
* The Christian RightTM is having a hard time finding a Presidential candidate that hates all the right things. [ NYT ]
* House will try to make amends for all that trouble in Holland, 1945. [ NYT ]