The Washington Post story:

President Obama said Friday that packages mailed from Yemen and intercepted in the last 24 hours contained explosive material and represented a “credible terrorist threat.”

The packages, mailed via UPS and FedEx, were addressed to two places of Jewish worship in Chicago, the president said…

So, the plot goes like this – Terrorists in Yemen obtain the addresses of two synagogues in Chicago; they make up bombs and drop them in the mail to do….what? Why would you do something like this? Its not like crossing the US border is all that tricky an enterprise…pay $10,000 to the drug cartels and you’re across the border. And now with toner cartridges dressed up as bombs, but with whatever bombs you want, which you can just drive to Chicago and set off. These packages were sent by means most likely to be detected from a place we’ve got our eyes on pretty intensely.

Sorry, but this just isn’t making a lot of sense to me. I’ve heard that some figure this was a dry run. What for? Why risk the exposure of your plot and your network in a dry run. Good we caught them but its almost a matter of how could we not have caught them?

I’ll be watching developments on this – it is just very, very strange.

From Richard Pollock over at Pajamas Media:

The Democratic National Committee and the party’s private club in the nation’s capitol have been delinquent with tax payments on sixteen separate occasions over the last seven years, Pajamas Media has learned.

According to District of Columbia government records, since 2004 the Democrats’ main political committee and its National Democratic Club — an exclusive restaurant and hideaway on Capitol Hill where prominent Democrats and their guests dine — have been hit with fines and interest penalties in excess of $115,000 for failure to pay their property taxes on time…

No surprise from the party which figured a tax cheat like Geithner should be in charge of the Treasury. Taxes are for the little people – not for high ranking Democrats or Wall Street fat cats, don’t you know? Always keep in mind – “the rich” are those who are just hard working business people…the filthy rich, on the other hand, are never touched by Democrats, and seem to have a large problem with paying their taxes promptly. The sort of stuff which would get you and me in jail just doesn’t seem to affect the Ruling Class, now does it?

They are so out of touch that they are only barely conscious of what is going on in America. To them, things are fine – the government is shoveling money at them, they can skate on their taxes, property values in the DC area continue to rise. What is everyone complaining about?

Well, we’re going to teach them a lesson on November 2nd they’ll never forget…

The end is near! For the Democrats, at any rate.

UPDATE: Chuck Muth issues a timely warning about the dangers of electing Sharron Angle to the Senate:

..And lastly, think about this: Who’s going to clean up the mess when thousands of liberal heads spontaneously explode next Tuesday night if Sharron Angle is declared the winner?…

UPDATE II: O’Donnell surges in new poll.

From Rasmussen:

…A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters say if they had the option next week, they would vote to get rid of the entire Congress and start all over again. Only 20% would opt to keep the entire Congress instead. Fifteen percent (15%) aren’t sure…

This is just a sign of how disgusted people are with the current state of affairs. No matter what happens on November 2nd, the key to the future lies in understanding that the people are furious and which ever party does the right thing the fastest will win a generation of power. Right now, the GOP is in the driver’s seat but we’ll have to see if we’re capable of doing the people’s business or whether we’ll blow it.

UPDATE: A prediction that Frank will be defeated. Nothing would better signal a new day in America than getting this corrupt political hack out of office.

Ok, so now that Ms. Stompee has been exposed, what other “October Surprise” events do you think the Democrats have up their sleeve? In a lot of ways, I don’t think it matters – unless you’ve got video of GOP leaders having an affair with a goat, I don’t think anything is going to stop the tidal wave.

I agree with the analysis, especially this bit:

I didn’t see the Big Debate, but I’ve read the consensus coming out of it was that Angle beat Reid – not just held her own. On the other hand, Reid performed nothing like the second most powerful man in Washington, which he arguably is. Not only did voters get a view of Angle as a credible option for the office of senator, they also saw the now-tarnished luster of their incumbent.

I, on the other hand, carried out my Nevada duty and watched the whole thing. I have to say, it was painful to watch – Reid was so incoherent and clearly out of touch that one wondered just why his handlers allowed him to even run this year. I’m sure his little boy, Rory, is regretting the old man’s decision…it is probably the fact that Harry is running that Rory is about to be utterly crushed in an embarrassing, my-goodness-why-did-you-think-you-could-win loss in the gubernatorial contest. Harry Reid should have retired – left the field clear for his son to run for governor, and leaving the Democrats an even shot at retaining the seat, even in this anti-Democrat year.

But now, Reid is doomed. With the usual sure-anything-can-happen caveat, I just don’t see a way for Reid to overcome the hostility Nevadans feels towards their senior Senator. Even liberals who are voting for him are doing so without enthusiasm…and everyone who is not a convinced liberal or a completely mindless Democrat is voting against, or just staying home. Beating Reid is the best way any American can register disapproval of the current state of affairs, and we Nevadans are ready to do our duty in this matter (I tend to vote on election day, but I’m thinking about picking up a slurpee in Searchlight tomorrow and casting my vote for Angle in that fair city).

It is time for Reid to go home to Searchlight – but, then again, Nevada has been the merest convenience for Reid and it wouldn’t surprise me if he stayed in DC as a lobbyists after we give him the boot.

From a conference at, and I’m not kidding, the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements at UC Berkeley:

“I wonder if we’re likely to see a Timothy McVeigh situation,” says Nicholas Robert, an attendee originally from Australia, who basically wonders if any Tea Partiers can be arrested. “It seems to be that we’re being very polite. I wonder if there are any legal mechanisms—one that comes to mind are the provisions used to crush the Wobblies.”…

Do read the whole article. It is absolutely astounding to read the sentiments expressed by the gathered leftist academics. In their view, the TEA Party movement isn’t a majority, is motivated entirely by hate (especially racial hatred of Obama) and is gravely threatening to all that is good…with one of the problems for America being that we’ve got this idiot idea that everyone has a right to put their two cents in to the debate. When I call these people “liberal fascists”, I’m being deadly earnest…I’d prefer to call them “junior-league Leninists”, to be even more accurate, but “liberal fascist” is apt, and rolls off the tongue better. These people are convinced that they know what is best and are determined to fit us in to their leftist box…and if we refuse, they get quite angry.

One thing we must remember to do is to de-fund the left. They mostly live off of government support of one form or another, and if we can cut their funding, they won’t have a means of support which allows them time to bother the rest of us.

From Legal Insurrection:

As I suspected, provocateur Lauren Valle was not so innocent.

In an amazing videotape obtained by Redstate, Valle is shown rushing Rand Paul’s car and shoving something into the window before it had come to a stop and again charging him as he exited the vehicle — clearly provocative and threatening actions which should have alerted bystanders that she posed a danger.

This completely debunks the left-blogosphere’s narrative that Valle was an innocent bystander who just happened to speak out against Paul when she was attacked by “Brownshirts.”…

If you click on the link to watch the video, it is clear the woman is acting in a very odd manner…a manner which, if it were the President, the Secret Service would have taken her down (and they don’t take people down gently). If you’re going to do that, don’t go whining about getting hurt…whether it was a deliberate provocation or just a lefty woman acting like a screwball is unknown and likely unknowable, but it is clearly not a case of TEA Party activists just stomping on someone they don’t agree with.

The Chicago Way – from ABC:

The Democratic National Committee formally has asked the Pentagon for reams of correspondence between military agencies and nine potential Republican presidential candidates, a clear indication that Democrats are building opposition-research files on specific 2012 contenders even before the midterm elections…

They are shameless, aren’t they? Just trolling for whatever they can find because they know come 2012 they simply won’t be able to run on their record.

We’ve got them on the run, good people…

As relevant now as then