* Nancy Pelosi holds by her "cleaner government" promise, won't extend term limits for Jane Harman or forget about Alcee Hastings's impeachment in selection of chairman for House Intelligence Committee. [WP, NYT, LAT, WSJ]

* Jim Webb: not afraid to diss the president, or top Senate Democrats. [WP]

* Increasing blame for the situation in Iraq is going to Iraqis -- cause hey, why not? [WP, NYT]

* Robert Gates uses kid gloves to hit the administration's pre-war planning, is in agreement with them on everything else. [WP, NYT]

* Either 18,000 Floridians don't care who their congressman is, or there really is a ghost in the voting machines. [WP]

* Pentagon will ask for $127 billion in funding for next year, mostly for new equipment as $2 billion a month is worn out or destroyed. [LAT, USAT]

* New report claims 11 European countries were "intentional or grossly negligent" in allowing the CIA to bring terror suspects to secret prisons on the continent. [WP, NYT]