FINAL TICKET: Holbrooke, Geithner hospitalized in the same medical facility

Brett Michael Dykes
·National Affairs Reporter

Here is our roster of stories that somehow managed to evade the full-on blog treatment:

• Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has been hospitalized for a blood clot issue, in the same facility where Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is being hospitalized for kidney stones. (ABC News)

• Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu has come out strongly against the Obama tax cut package. (Nola.com)

• Gay rights activists booed West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin today for voting against the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell." (Politico)

• The White House thinks that the New START agreement on nuclear nonproliferation with Russia will win ratification in the Senate early next year. (CNN)

• Incoming House Speaker John Boehner will be profiled on "60 Minutes" this weekend. (CBS)

• Texas GOP Rep. Ron Paul says he doesn't plan to try to abolish the Federal Reserve "up front" in his new leadership role.(Business Week)