Really?

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she feels as if Republican leaders have turned their backs on her as she mounts a write-in bid to try to hold onto her seat.

Alaska's senior senator told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that the focus in Washington seems to have become more about "adding numbers to the team" and less about the quality of the candidate.

Really? Really?

Over at Taranto's Best of the Web...

Princess Lisa

Maybe it's time to reconsider Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Frank

Murkowski, Alaska's former senator and governor, took little Lisa to work in 2002, and now she refuses to go home. Shortly after taking office as governor, Mr. Murkowski appointed Miss Murkowski to the Senate seat he had just vacated. She was elected in her own right in 2004, but this year Alaska Republicans decided it was time for a new direction and handed her a primary defeat.

Well, listen up, Alaska voters: You didn't put Miss Murkowski in the Senate, and she'll be damned if she's going to let you throw her out. On Friday she announced that she intends to run a write-in candidacy. (If you want to write her in, her name is spelled M-I-L-L-E-R.)

Thanks to ArthurK and and Andrew Breitbart.

Oh: At Hot Air, video her proclaiming she represents the values of Alaska not the values of Jim DeMint.

She also represents the values of being a sore loser.

That's from DrewM.'s "Murky Facebook Page."

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The FBI got involved in setting him up; his "bomb," made by an FBI plant, was fake.

A Northwest Side man has been charged with plotting to bomb a strip of crowded Wrigleyville night spots around the time people were leaving a Dave Matthews concert at the ballpark over the weekend.

Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, of the 4700 block of North Kedzie Avenue, was arrested as he placed a backpack containing what he thought were high-explosives in a trash can in front of Sluggers on Clark Street, about a block south of Wrigley Field, according to the FBI.

There is some possible terrorist breaking news. Fingers crossed.

BREAKING: Fort Bliss Army Base in Texas on Lockdown After Shooting, Army Officials Say. Please God, not again.

Either way I guess there was a shooting. Prayers.

Murder/Suicide: God loser men suck.

Can't just kill yourself. Oh no. Gotta bring someone along with you because otherwise you'd get lonely.

Cowardly, weak killers.

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Over at NRO, more predictions.

With much work yet to be done, the path outlined above could put John Boehner well past the 39 seats he needs to put Pelosi on a back bench — but the worst news for Democrats is that those races are just the beginning of their problems. As the August recess wore on, dozens of Democrats who thought they were safe went home to find themselves surprisingly in trouble. Aside from the 60 races in Democrat-held seats above, there are three or four dozen more Democratic incumbents in various degrees of jeopardy. That’s right, four dozen.

If 1994 and 2006, the two most recent wave elections, are the barometers, a good number of these off-the-radar challenges will succeed. ...

These 35 or 40 races that are getting scant attention from either party right now could yield handfuls of new Republican freshmen, if history is any guide. If Democrats don’t cut bait on their higher-profile but already beaten freshmen soon, they’ll never get the chance to mitigate these surprises — and minus-39 seats might start looking awfully attractive.

Oh, and in case you're wondering "Where's the creepy joke about Sean Duffy?"

Well, he might have hoped I forgot, but I didn't. I never forget.

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So sayeth the NYT.

Disappointed Supporters Question Obama

A headline that could not be applied to the New York Times Editorial Board, by the way.

It was billed as “Investing In America,” a live televised conversation between President Obama and American workers, students, business people and retirees on the state of the economy, a kind of Wall Street to Main Street reality check.

But it sounded like a therapy session for disillusioned Obama supporters.

I don't if there's anything here to be worth making a mountain out of, but they always do immediately brand Obama critics -- even ex-supporters -- as somehow unhinged or emotionally unbalanced, don't they?

Check out Obama's spin:

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“The challenge for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically: What would you do?” the president said. “It’s not enough to say ‘get control of spending.’ I think its important for you to say, ‘I’m willing to cut veterans’ benefits,’ or ‘I’m willing to cut Medicare or Social Security,’ or ‘I’m willing to see taxes go up.’ ”

The challenge, he says, is that the Tea Party must support the most wildly unpopular spending cuts first and cannot, say, first support a reduction of discretionary spending back down to Clinton's 1998 levels, or a 5% across the board cut in such spending (as Mike Pence proposes), or a one or two year wage freeze/attrition program for federal workers, etc.

No. See, no. See, unless the Tea Party leads with the most controversial budget-reduction plans imaginable, they've failed the "challenge."

By the way, some commenters explained why Obama laughed at first at that racist woman who said "I'm tired of defending you:" Obama thought at first she was making the point that exists only in Obama's head, that is, that these attacks are all silly distractions made by unserious people (or seriously racist people who talk about him like he's a dog). He wanted to laugh with her at how nonsensical all this criticism was. I hear ya, sister. It's ridiculous, isn't it?

But then she affirmed her own belief in the seriousness of these criticisms and he realized he wasn't going to get what he had been used to -- adulation for his lack of accomplishments. And then he grimaced.

Liveblogged... Points and Figures liveblogged this grim tableaux earlier. Bush, you will be surprised to hear, was blamed.

BTW, does anyone ever say "tableaux" without the "grim" before it? I only see it crappy horror writing.

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Been a while. If you're a lurker, say hi.

If you're an old timer, do not say anything edgy, offcolor, or insulting to a new poster or I will crush your face with my ass.

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Remember these guys, who did that amazing treadmill video (awesome song, too) with no cuts? That was the most awesome internet song ever (at least until they were recently dethroned).

Well, they've done another one. I don't think I really love this song, and I don't know if I love the video either. And... I sort of suspect that this time they cheated and there are hidden cuts in places. (Then again, edit-free videos are their thing so maybe they wouldn't cheat. And also, I was pretty sure they cheated last time, too, but was wrong.)

But, I'll give it a chance to grow on me.
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This starts off a bit obvious and anti-O'Donnell. I guess it never is really anti-Coons at all, but it is kinda funny.

Thanks to PhillipJ.

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Ironically enough, he claims that what makes America America is our "belief in shared values." And then goes on to delete one of those shared values.

At 22:00:

Meanwhile, President Metrosexual Space Alien has a hot new plan to win Novemeber: attempting to demonize a new opponent that the public will finally decide is a worthy enough demon to be afraid of. At the link, a quote from the NYT about Obama's plan to win by attacking the Tea Party, but here's this Daily Mail Telegraph columnist's opinion:

If the Obama team believes it will make political capital out of slandering the views of the Tea Party it is hugely misreading the general mood of the country. The grassroots organisation’s stunning success is symbolic of a deep-seated rejection across the United States of a “transformational” president who is making America poorer, weaker, more indebted and significantly less free.

The White HouseÂ’s planned assault is yet another example of an elitist presidency that is spectacularly out of touch with the American electorate, and increasingly digging its own political grave.

Thanks to the artist formerly known as RightwingSparkle and SnarkandBoobs, respectively. On tap at SnarkandBoobs is eight liberal Hollywood quotes that make your wince in stupid.

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Funnyman.

But the planned event has also produced a bit of hand-wringing among Democrats. For one thing, Stewart hasn't mentioned that labor groups and other institutional Democratic organizations are already planning a big Washington rally to counter Beck: The One America rally on October 2, which has been struggling to get the kind of attention Beck does.

Okay, well, who cares? The union just pays people to come down to these things. They don't need press. (Okay, they don't pay people to come down so much as they extract money from employers and also their own members to pay people to go these things.)

But it gets better:

And the Stewart rally is also, for Democratic field operatives, at an inconvenient time: Its participants are "not doing GOTV on GOTV weekend" said Matt Ortega, a former DNC staffer, referring to a weekend typically spent knocking on doors and making calls in one's home district, not Washington.

Via The Divine Miss M.

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It's not the MSG. It's Sean Duffy, dude. more...

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