Daily Briefing: Unpronounceable Symbols
* Thanks to the Iraq war and the rich getting richer, there's a budget surplus projected for 2012. [ WP ]
* Senators facing reelection in 2008 increase pace of their waddling to escape reporters and pesky questions about Iraq. [ WP ]
* Walnuts McCain white washes his record of staff-bashing with new "Good Dude Doctrine." [ NYT ]
* Barack Obama realizes he doesn't have a guitar that only plays Purple Rain , chooses to focus campaign on message rather than rock star status. [ WP ]
* Immigrants and lawbreakers are first to face The Great DNA Harvest. [ NYT ]
* Traffic jam fetishists to rally against Administration's "congestion initiative" funding. [ WSJ ]
* John Edwards has that not-so-fresh feeling. [ NYT ]
* "The nonbinding resolution would have no more force of law than the one approved Thursday commending the Miss America Organization ." [ LAT ]