[Daily Brief]

Short and Sweet

MSM

Harry Reid to John Roberts: nope. WaPo to Reid: careful. (Question: does a presidential judicial nomination actually carry a "heavy presumption of confirmation," or is that the WaPo knuckling under to power again?) France to US (re: Katrina): boneheads. Meyerson on the administration and Katrina (call it a shorter Rich). Applebaum: Do you want to pay to rebuild Trent Lott's house? Also: Frist pulls a Martha (stock dumping), GOP dischord, Bush and the trees of mass destruction, and Limbaugh calls Hillary a murderer (again).

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