Daily Briefing: No Pratfalls Here

*Gerald Ford: greatest President since the last one that died. [ WP , NYT , USAT ]

*President Bushdips his pen into the inkwell of free-market editorials. [ WSJ , NYT ]

* Strategy memo stolen fromRudy Giuliani'scampaign mildly shocking for the 292 million Americans that don't live in New York City. [ WP ]

* Massachusetts will put gay marriage on a statewide ballot in 2008 -- get ready for two years of marketing gayness to Irish-Catholics. [ WP ]

* No one has a clue ifBarack Obama'sbong hits will become poll hits in a Presidential race. [ WP ]

* Democrats really, definitely launching "100-hour legislative blitz," just as soon as the "Lets get ready to rummmble" guy shows up. [ NYT ]

* Hippies plan protest at Capitol tomorrow, will discuss impeachment over vegan burritos. [ WP ]

* African-American members of Congress from the South assume leadership positions in the House, finally. [ WSJ ]

* Military's "emergency-funding request" reads like a Pentagon Christmas list. [ WSJ ]