Daily Briefing: 'The Red-Carpet Treatment'

•Approval ofBushslips to 37%, a new low in WSJ/NBC polling; 79% believe the leak investigation is "a serious matter" and a majority sayBush"deliberately misled people" to war. [ WSJ ]

•House Republicans scrap ANWR drilling to ensure passage of budget.Schumer: "If you are a moderate Republican, you are starting to say, 'I am not going to followGeorge Bushover the cliff.'" [ WP , NYT ]

•Republicans fear implications of Tuesday's elections; Democrats have their own lessons to learn. Pollster: "The waning of enthusiasm forBushand his presidency is national." [ LAT , WP , WT ]

•Senators press top oil executives about their profits; "if the hearing had an air of the theater, the public resentment articulated by the senators was real."Milbank: "[I]nstead of calling oil executives on the carpet yesterday, senators gave them the red-carpet treatment." [ WP , NYT , WSJ , USAT , WT ]

• Bushsplits with Republicans over ban of abusive treatment of detainees. [ USAT ]

• Judith Millerleaves The New York Times. [ WP , WP , NYT ]

• Chalabidenies misleading the U.S. and offers to testify before Congress. [ USAT , WP ]

•Senate Judiciary Committee considers televising Supreme Court proceedings. [ LAT ]

•Congress expected to curtail Patriot Act. [ WP ]

• Kainecampaign is praised. [ WP ]

•Senate Select Committee on Intelligence outlines inquiry of pre-war intelligence. [ WP ]

• RobertsasksFristto postpone congressional investigation of leak to the Washington Post until the Justice Department has concluded theirs. [ WP ]

•Ethics are likely to come up duringAlito's confirmation hearing; Democrats expect him to be confirmed. [ WP , LAT , WT ]

• Jack Abramoffpriced a meeting withBushat $9m for the president of Gabon. [ NYT ]

•President of Amtrak claims he was dismissed for ideological reasons. [ NYT ]

• John Edwardssays his vote for the war in Iraq was a mistake. [ WP ]

•50% think the press are not fair toBush, according to Pew survey. [ WT ]

•Documentary about 2004 election in Ohio shows "that theBushcampaign was run by major-league professionals and theKerrycampaign by bush-league amateurs." [ NYT ]