Daily Briefing: Yawn and Stretch
* House Democrats will be issuing a sternly worded "boo, hiss" proclamation about troop escalation in Iraq. [ NYT ]
* Intelligence used to justify the war in 2003 was manipulated by administration officials. You heard it here again. [ WP , NYT ]
* Barack Obama: the early years. [ WP ]
*President Bushis "liberated" by having no campaigns to hijack his otherwise sterling legacy. [ WP ]
* Someone needs to tellAl Gorehe's running for president. [ TIME ]
* The American economy don't want no gas prices going up. Terror attacks maybe, just don't fuck with the gas prices. [ WSJ ]
* Homeland Security employees plan to be extra demoralized today, as that's what they're supposed to be, and it's Friday and all. [ WP , USAT ]