Listen to President George W. Bush on any given day and you’ll probably hear that Iraq is a little messy, but nothing that a little elbow grease and Republican determination couldn’t handle. Listen to the Post’s correspondents and, well, things seem a little less rosy. To date four of the newspaper’s writers have produced books on Iraq, none of which Bush will likely be taking down to Crawford anytime soon. Bob Woodward’s State of Denial:…

Whoops. A little snafu in the DCist newsroom has thus far left us without our daily news roundup. Given that no good day starts without a general overview of the news, we’re turning an omission into an opportunity — we’re going to live-blog today’s roundup. So, stay tuned. Every few minutes or so we’ll have an update. Update: Let’s see what the Post has to offer this morning. Some minor election in Virginia seems to…

(Editor’s Note: In Part III of our look at the state of WMATA’s metrobus system, we look forward to what could be. Granted, questions about money and political initiative will certainly dictate the future non-metrorail transit in the Washington area. So to the WMATA and political officials who may be reading this, consider this our wish list. We know you have other problems and complicated jurisdictional stuff to deal with. We know you want to…