Monday-Morning Roundup

After its headlining DeLay story yesterday, the Washington Post offers no further information this morning, while the New York Times plays catch-up. The Times piece this morning quotes a "senior leadership aide" in the House as saying Speaker Hastert is "increasingly determined to find a resolution to the dispute keeping the panel that enforces House rules from beginning operations this session. The aide said Mr. Hastert was being driven more by institutional concerns than by the furor engulfing Mr. DeLay, the majority leader."

All the papers cover Frist's appearance at "Justice Sunday". I've updated the links here. The Washington Times reports some McConnell "Face the Nation" comments in which he suggests Frist & Co. have the votes to break the filibuster. The Christian Science Monitor has an outstanding look at how both sides in the filibuster fight claim the imprimatur of the Constitution and tradition.

Some Specter comments on the Bolton nomination get a much more overblown headline than they deserve at the New York Times. Specter called Bolton's current chances for confirmation "too close to call." USA Today also ties in the Specter remarks, and includes in its reporting today new allegations of misbehavior against Bolton in an incident that took place more than twenty years ago [the more recent events are of infinitely more relevance, in my opinion].

The New York Times' David Sanger suggests that there is an ongoing debate within the Administration over a plan to float a Security Council resolution "empowering all nations to intercept shipments in or out of [North Korea] that may contain nuclear materials or components," constituting effectively a 'quarantine' of the DPRK. The point, Sanger quotes American and Asian officials as saying, would be to offer China "political cover" to plug holes in its border with North Korea. Sanger says no decision has been reached by the Administration on whether to pursue this course.

Last but by no means least, the Washington Post [the only major paper that has even attempted to cover the genocide in Darfur recently] features a must-read piece on humanitarian aid workers in Sudan.

Did any of the editors hear Bob Schieffer yesterday? Doesn't look that way.