Daily Briefing: Resisting the Urge
*President Bush'sbig "state of Iraq policy" speech tonight is expected to focus on the "If we're still fighting, we haven't lost" strategy. [ WP ]
* How will Democrats respond? [ NYT , NYT ]
* Security Bill of unimplemented recommendations of 9/11 Commission gets big confidence vote from House.Joe Liebermannow "hopes" to get "some" of the same proposals adopted by the Senate. [ WP , NYT ]
* A Senate whose future depends largely on the finger squeezing abilities of a now slightly improvedTim Johnson. [ WP ]
* Schwarzenegger gets back his God-complex, claims California is "the modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta." [ WP ]
* It's now legal to drill away, up in Bristol Bay. [ WP ]
* Republicans just love to talk shit about sticky-fingersSandy Berger. [ WP ]
* University faculty members pissed about being forced to house Bush Library. [ NYT ]