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by Smitty

. . . the fact that no one encroached on his Danica Patrick blogging territory.

by Smitty

Because not everyone can match Jimmie Bise in raw sex appeal

. . .lesser mortals will simply have to fight with the GIMP to replace Mt. Fuji with the Capitol Dome in the famous print:

In a less abstract, more “Can you describe the underside of the bus, Mr. Reid?” sort of way, Sharron Angle’s closer covers pretty much every Democrat incumbent, in addition to The Hapless One:

TOP NEWS

Bombmaker Sought In Cargo Plot Also Involved in Previous Attempts

FedEx, UPS, USPS no longer accepting packages from Yemen

Baghdad Church Hostage Drama Ends In Bloodbath
25 Christian hostages killed by terrorists as U.S. troops and Iraqi commandos attack

Brazil Elects First Woman President
“My mission is to eradicate poverty,” says Rousseff

32 Hurt In Istanbul Suicide Bombing
Attack has Al-Qaeda trademarks, but Turks blame Kurds

POLITICS

GOP: We’re Not Giving Up On Miller

“Joe Miller not only has the full support of the NRSC, but he’s actually featured prominently in our TV ad which is running still today statewide in Alaska,” Jesmer said.

NV Senate Race Not A Popularity Contest

Virginia A Bellwether For 2010 Midterms?

Clinton Stumps For Democrats All Around New England

O’Donnell Buys 30-minute Spots, Undaunted By Polls

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Bernanke’s Rep On The Line As Fed Tries To Boost Economy

Indiana Voters Liable To Lock In Property Tax Caps

XBox Live Dashboard Update Releases Today

Joysticks And The First Amendment

SPORTS

Patriots Run Past Favre, Vikings

Move into first in the AFC East with  28-18 win

Ducks Stay Atop AP Top 25 For Third Week

Jerry Jones Confused, Vacillating After Cowboys Savaged By Jags

Road Warrior Dolphins Win Fourth Straight Away From Home

Jazz, Finally Win One, Beat Thunder 120-99

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS

Denise Borino-Quinn Dies, 46

Died of cancer last week; funeral Mass held Saturday

Charlie Sheen Apparently Determined To Blow His Life, Career

Lindsay Lohan – No Tricks, Just Treats

Rihanna Rocks “Ronnie & Clyde” SNL Skit

FOREIGNERS

Japan To Summon Russian Ambassador Over Medvedev’s Visit To Kuriles

Haiti Braces For Hurricane Tomas

Ivory Coast Holds First Election Since 2002 War

Saudi King Offers To Host Talks To Break Iraq Stalemate

BLOGS & STUFF

Ed Morrissey: “Yeah, that was us, but it’s not what you think,” says KTVA

POWIP: Keef Says Stewart’s Jumped The Shark?

Michelle Malkin: Obama/Biden’s Last Campaign Rally Ends With A Whimper

OTB: You Know What David Broder Suggests To Get The Economy Going? A War With Iran!

Contentions: So What Does Jennifer Rubin Say About All This?

— compiled by Wombat-socho

by Smitty

CY on why the Democrat Party may have GOTV problems.

by Smitty

Is the Huffington Post burying its head in the sand, or worse?
States attempting to ensure the validity of elections are under attack by the occasionally amusing, but mostly stone cold crazy 9th Circuit Court of Idiocy are where the real questions begin:

A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a key part of Arizona’s law requiring voters to prove they are citizens before registering to vote and to show identification before casting ballots.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the law requiring voters to prove their citizenship while registering is inconsistent with the National Voter Registration Act. That federal law allows voters to fill out a mail-in voter registration card and swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but doesn’t require them to show proof as Arizona’s law does.

Then there is Eric Holder’s Department of (in)Justice, but you’ll have to read J. Christian Adams to catch all that detail.
Back at HuffPo, David Spencer Seconi, Managing Editor of CheatingCulture.com, offers “The Right’s Obsession With Voter Fraud“. Not to say that Seconi’s domain name, itself, doesn’t adequately answer the question: “Is Seconi a boob?”, but his final ‘graph is a hoot in this context:

While voting fraud does not occur at the level some conservative websites would have you believe, it is still wrong, however, to automatically assume the problem does not exist. Yet, it becomes impossible to solve such a basic issue when it becomes political. Want evidence? Just ask the climate scientists who hired Al Gore for that documentary.

Now, voting is a political act. So, if part of the political act is too political to manage anymore, have we achieved anarchy? As for Saint Albert Gore, Jr. and, the poor wee scientists who ‘hired’ him to do the documentary: do they deserve more or less sympathy than the hamsters who awarded him the Oscar, not to mention the gerbils who gave him the Nobel Prize? As with the voter fraud, it’s a godforsaken racket, and Seconi is either a useful idiot or complicit. Probably the former thinking himself the latter.

TOP NEWS

FBI Arrest Pakistani-American In Subway Terror Sting

Farouk accused of scouting Metro stations for bomb sites

Colbert, Stewart Deny It, But Participants See Rally As Political Event

Attendees expect to energize liberal base

Prosthetic Leg May Belong To Missing Australian Girl

Zahra Baker missing for over two weeks, mother jailed for lying to police

POLITICS

Early Voting On Track To Break Midterm Record

“The early voting numbers are favorable for Democrats, but here’s the caution — they are not as favorable as in 2008.”

Angle Answers Behar Slur With Flowers

Thanks Behar for helping her raise $150,000

Feingold Fights Mood For Change

Marathon County illustrates sour mood among Wisconsin voters

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Dollar Reaches Weekly High Against Euro As Fed Shows Signs Easing Won’t Be As Big As Previously Guessed

Wells Fargo To Amend 55,000 Foreclosures

Crude Oil Breaks $82 As Weak Dollar Spurs Raw Materials Buying

MySpace Reorients Toward Videos and Music

Sony Exec Sees Value In A PSP Phone

SPORTS

Cavs Begin Post-LeBron Era With Shocking Upset Of Celtics

Good start on getting to a championship ahead of the Heat.

Thrashers Stop Rangers Three-Game Win Streak

Caps Blank Canes In Miami Home Opener

Phil Jackson: Lakers Championship Rings “Unwearable”

CC Sabathia Having Knee Surgery After Sub-par Postseason

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS

Charlie Sheen Tests Positive For Cocaine

Two months out of rehab and back on the Bolivian Marching Powder already. *sigh*

Christopher Nolan Reveals Title Of Third Batman Film

Audrina Patridge Bounces Back From DWTS Elimination, Inks Reality Show Deal

Conan O’Brien Ready For One Last Late-Night Ride

James Cameron To Do Avatar 2, 3 Next

Photographer: Tila Tequila Kidnapped My Girlfriend!

Prince William & Kate Middleton Ready To Wed

FOREIGNERS

Nestor Kirchner, Former President Of Argentina, Dies At 60

Death  Toll From Indonesian Tsunami, Volcano Eruption Tops 300

Gorbachev Says Putin Obstructs Democracy

French Parliament Signs Off On Pension Reform As Strikes Dwindle

BLOGS & STUFF

C4P: DNC Attempting To Use Pentagon For Oppo Research?

Hot Air: On Second Thought, Maybe We Should Forget About Compromising Our Principles For The Sake Of Bipartisanship

AmSpecBlog: A Second Term For Steele?

NRO: Manchin Administration Under Federal Investigation

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apparently resigned to the fact that they’re heading for a memorable defeat, Democrats are trying to get a head start on explaining what went wrong:

Mr. President, how did you lose control of the economic message? Only months earlier, the administration had announced a push to remind the public of the positive impact of the stimulus. But the “Recovery Summer” campaign — press releases, big road signs, presidential and vice-presidential events — barely registered, and the “ground zero mosque” controversy dominated the summer’s silly season instead. . . .
The “original sin of the Obama administration,” says former labor secretary Robert Reich, “was to make the stimulus too small while giving out too much of it as tax breaks to businesses.” By most estimates, the stimulus saved or created about 3 million jobs, but it did not keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent, as the White House had projected . . .

So this, from David Corn of Mother Jones, gives us a clear idea of how the Left will interpret the expected drubbing on Nov. 2. The one thing that is ruled out in advance is the possibility that neo-Keynesian “stimulus” simply doesn’t work. 

Liberals simply refuse to accept that their economic theory is wrong, or to examine evidence that interventionism produces more harm than good.

The free-market critique of the New Deal’s failures? Ignored. The lessons of 1970s-era “stagflation”? Ignored.

Burt Folsom? Amity Schlaes? Never heard of ’em.

Ergo, if $787 billion in “stimulus” did not stimulate, then the Left concocts a “what-if” scenario of a $1.5 trillion stimulus that would have worked. The imagined benefits of this hypothetical super-stimulus have the advantage of being non-falsifiable, permitting them to believe that their theory is still viable.

Even the most phenomenal omens — negative yields on Treasury bonds? — are explained away as irrelevant or, if necessary, the liberals whip out their all-purpose response: Blame Bush!

No matter how much misery and failure their policies produce, liberals will never admit that their ideas are wrong.