Daily Briefing: Being There
* Senate Republicans hopeJohn McCainshows up to work so they can avoid a veto of the Iraq funding bill. Please note that we didn't take the easy "soften stance on pullout" headline joke. [ WP , NYT ]
* Gonzales' aide invokes her "fifth amendment right" while taking "an indefinite leave of absence." We've come a long way as a society -- a few years ago she just would've been "disappeared." [ WP , NYT ]
* FBI so excited about their new anti-terrorism powers they're doing donuts in the nations' personal information parking lot. [ WP ]
* First Guantánamo detainee actually found guilty, entered the plea himself, and is Australian. Swarthiest possible actors will continue to be cast for every "bad guy" movie role, however. [ WP , NYT , LAT ]
*David Stockmanis thankful there aren't any emails to dig through from the Reagan administration. [ WP ]
*Lawrence Smalltells Smithsonian board of regents they can take his job and shove it into a jewel encrusted urn. [ WP ]
*Jim Webbtells Capitol police they can take his gun from the cold, dead hands of his aide. [ WP ]