Daily Briefing: They Let a Blogger into the White House?!?
•Administration unable to propose more tax cuts due to rising expenditures and some GOP senators mull tax increases; initiative to simplify code does not lower taxes. [ WP ]
•Staffers comb fine print of Senate rules to prepare for fight over judicial nominees. [ NYT ]
•Middle ground on Social Security is unpopular considering most think "failure to agree at all would be better than a compromise that gives way on principle";Bushquietly courting senators. [ NYT , USAT , USAT ]
•Senate Republicans expect new bankruptcy rules to pass. [ WSJ ]
• Garrett Graffbecomes first blogger approved for White House press gaggle. [ NYT ]
•Liberals decryLieberman's "disloyalty" to Democrats on Social Security. [ NYT ]
•Financial backers of most lobbying efforts remain in the shadows. [ WP ]
•Bipartisan support forBush's nominee to head EPA. [ WSJ ]
• Bushhas seen "The Aviator", "Paper Clips", and "Hotel Rwanda" this year;Laurasees more films. [ NYT ]
•Evolution ofJustice Kennedycredited with ruling on juvenile death penalty. [ WP ]
•Senators debate funding for abstinence education. [ WT ]
•Democrats begin daily webcast roundtable of liberal talking heads. [ WP ]