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There was a smattering of other political news inside-the-Beltway besides the stimulus debate. ABC's Jake Tapper broke the story that Tom Daschle, the former senator who is the nominee for Health Secretary, was given free use of a car and driver for three years when he worked for a private equity firm but failed to report the perk as income. It was only when he was being vetted for the Cabinet post that he "corrected this mistake, paying more than $100,000 in back taxes plus interest"… David Gregory, anchor of NBC's Meet the Press, called the Republican National Committee's selection of Michael Steele as its new chairman "a new face, literally and substantively." Steele is an African-American from Maryland. "The Republican Party has to become more than just a regional party in the South"…CBS' Bob Schieffer (no link), anchor of Face the Nation, reflected on speculation that Judd Gregg, the senator from New Hampshire, may become Barack Obama's Commerce Secretary. He juggled the cynical--"they are just trying to figure out a way to get one of the Republicans out"--with the goo-goo--Obama "is really serious" about bipartisanship.
NBC's rookie White House correspondent Chuck Todd caught a dose of what ailed his colleague Chip Reid at CBS earlier in the week. Instead of settling on a single headline for his report, Todd tried the portmanteau approach, mixing labor union policy with bonuses on Wall Street with a reference to Steele and another one to Gregg. If a single story is not important enough for its own two-minute package then really it rates no mention at all on the nightly news. Relegate it to the First Read blog instead.
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