Sorry boys and girls, just got too tired on Friday night to put something out for you. I’ll get something up a little later.

The Ruling Class doesn’t want to give up power:

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (I-AK) will run for re-election as a write-in candidate after losing her bid for renomination, according to sources briefed on Murkowski’s decision.

Murkowski’s decision will set up a 3-way battle between the incumbent, Miller and Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams (D), potentially turning the race on its head. Private 3-way polling has shown Miller leading, but by a narrow margin…

She needs to be immediately stripped of her committee assignments and forbidden to caucus with the GOP. This is a complete betrayal of all Republicans, everywhere – seeing Alaska as the merest means of getting herself in to elite circles in DC, she can’t get over the fact that the party is over, the people have rejected her. And now she’s unmasked herself as a self-absorbed, establishment back-stabber.

Democrats, if you want her, you can have her…but I’d warn that once she knifes one side in the back, she’s likely to do it to anyone foolish enough to befriend her.

UPDATE: The best answer we Republicans can give to this is to support Joe Miller. Whatever you can give or do.

UPDATE II: From Professor Jacobson:

We were right.

Charlie Crist, Mike Castle, now Lisa Murkowski.

We have proven our point.

All of those who said that we should back the RINO because its good politics – this is your answer: its not a surprise that these people have betrayed us. That is what RINOs do – they live for their chance to buddy up to their fellows in the Ruling Class at the expense of the people. The events of the 2010 primary season have just made this fact unmistakable.

Poor, little Olympia Snowe – she’s feeling a bit put out by Mike Castle’s defeat:

…The reality is that being part of a shrinking wing of her party is not new for Snowe. She used to be one of many moderate New England Republicans, but the group has dwindled over the past decade after being defeated by Democrats, never mind conservative Republicans.

“I’ve always been on the outside looking in, in the world I live in. When you’re a minority, moderate, New England, woman, Republican woman, you don’t get more outside than that. Do you? I’m a minority within a minority,” Snowe said laughing, “I’ve been fighting my whole life.”

Yeah, those Republican women are surely a put-upon minority. I mean, except for Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Sharron Angle, Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Christine O’Donnell, Nikki Haley, Kelley Ayotte and the literal hundreds of other women who are running as Republicans in 2010, there is simply no place for women in the GOP. Hopefully, Ms. Snowe will manage to keep the torch burning until such time as the GOP becomes more welcoming to women…

Memo to Senator Snowe and all other RINOs: we don’t mind you staking out some liberal opinions. Everyone is entitled to their own views and it is your constituents who will decide if you’re going to be returned to office. There are only two things we insist up:

1. That the establishment not try to dictate to the rank and file who the nominee will be. You, Ms. Snowe, might draw a primary challenger in your next outing…we expect you to accept that with good grace, run a spirited but respectful campaign and then abide by the will of the people.

2. Once you have taken our sweat and treasure to help get elected or re-elected, we expect that on the crucial issues, you’ll stick with us. The crucial issues can vary over time, but for 2010 let’s just say they are definitely: no tax increases, spending must be cut. If you can’t go along with a few minimal requirements, then perhaps it is time to think of moving on.

No, I’m not kidding:

…Visiting the state’s wealthiest town for the first time as president, Obama hauled in $1 million at a $30,400-a-plate fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at the Conyers Farm estate of real estate prospector Richard Richman and his wife Ellen Schapps Richman…

Nothing like a little party with Richie Richman, I guess. Or is he known as “Dick” among his fellow fat cats? Given the name of the place, I wonder if the after-dinner conversation turned on Mrs. Conyers going to jail?

You can’t parody these people any more – they do it, themselves.

From HuffPo:

…DPW has received $70.65 million and created or retained 45.46 jobs, though they are expected to create 238 jobs overall (the fraction of a job created or retained correlates to the number of actual hours works). LADOT has been awarded $40.8 million and created or retained 9 jobs, though they are expected to create 26 jobs overall. Overall, the Departments have received $111 million in federal stimulus funds out of the $594 million the City has been awarded so far and created or retained 54.46 jobs…

Government cannot actually create jobs, it can only spend money. Jobs are created when wealth is created – when a new factory comes on line, a mine opens up, or a field is plowed. If you’re not doing one of those three things, or at least supporting directly those actions, then all you’re doing is expending wealth with no return. The “jobs” for $111 million just represent a net reduction of national wealth.

It is worthwhile to remember that aside from a few who have absorbed the teachings of Hayek, the people who run our economy and government have all been taught that it was government spending and regulation which got us out of the Great Depression, and will work like magic any time the economy slumps. They are not taught this as a debatable idea: they go through primary school, college and graduate school with this concept being related as if it is a scientific fact.

The reality is that the New Deal not only didn’t cure the Depression, but made it worse. To get a clear picture, one must actually take a step back from the New Deal – two steps, actually, because you have to go back before Hoover. Hoover was just FDR-lite. He taxed and spent like mad to try and cure the economic slump signaled by the stock market crash of 1929. FDR just doubled (or, more accurately, tripled) down and spent and taxed even more.

The underlying basis of the acceptance of these moves was a conviction that the crash and slump were the result of a fundamental flaw in free market economics. That the real cause of the crash was a simply lack of demand brought about by the world missing 20 million people who would have been in their peak consumption and production years entirely escaped contemporary observers (the crash happened just shy of 11 years after the end of WWI, which took 10 million lives, and the “Spanish ‘flu” which took another 10 and perhaps as many as 20 million lives…the lives lost in these disasters were primarily younger people). A simple adjustment was necessary – and it was happening, a bit brutally, in an economic slide…which would have ended in a couple years once equilibrium was established, and then growth could have resumed. Around the world, government intervention was instigated, and everything simply went all to heck (getting out of the Depression was not caused by WWII – it was caused by the massive post-war population boom which stimulated global demand to such a point that even an over-taxed and regulated economy could prosper…until the population boom wore off towards the end of the 1960’s).

Because we are locked in to what amounts to an economic lie, we see things like this astounding $111 million for 54 “jobs”. The Powers That Be are doing what they have been instructed to do – they can do no other, because they don’t even suspect there is a different way. Only a complete sweep of the dead economics of the past 80 years will allow us to get out of this. A return to sound money, balanced budgets and low taxes is the cure for what ails us..and its just a tragedy that it will have to wait, at least, until Obama is out of office before we can even start the ball rolling in a meaningful way.

Global warming? Waaaay too yesterday – from Fox News:

From the administration that brought you “man-caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation,” another terminology change is in the pipeline.

The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is…

It is a very typical thing among liberals – terminology changes as a means of ever confusing issues to make it hard to attack them. Global warming is falling in to disrepute as the lies used to bolster it are exposed…so, rather than just admit error, our liberals will simply pour the old wine in to a new bottle.

Is is just me, or are these people just getting more and more ridiculous by the day?

From CNBC:

A new study obtained by CNBC says Americans are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire.

The study, conducted by Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research, says savings have been squeezed by declines in stock and housing values…

Not really, of course – I mean, we haven’t been squeezed by low stock and home prices. Those prices should never have been as high as they were. That was all fake wealth built up by a financial system which is geared towards rewarding the least productive enterprises. What is squeezing us is the lack of wealth creation – the lake of making, mining and growing things here in the United States.

That hole in our retirement budget is the money we should have made over the past 20 years or so, but didn’t make as we shipped our factories to China, our mines to Chile and our farms to Mexico. This is a disaster on a lot of levels – not just for the retirees who will be short of cash, but for the young who will find themselves competing with older workers who simply don’t have enough money to quit working. The whole thrust of our economy these days is towards people having to scramble just to stay even – we need to change that.

To make that change we have to return to sound money, careful investment instead of rampant speculation, balanced budgets and intensive re-industrialization. In short, we’re going to have to get back to work, save our pennies and act like adults in order to get out of this mess. The big problem we have right now is that the financial Powers That Be don’t want to give up their fiat-money, usurious gravy train…and the political class doesn’t want an America of self-sufficient Americans who have no cause to ask government for help.

Still, we’ll get the ball rolling on change come this November 2nd – just a first, baby step in the right direction, but you have to start somewhere.

Still a bit of establishment hand-wringing over the O’Donnell win – Kevin Williamson over at NRO gives the good advice:

About Christine O’Donnell: No strong opinion about the candidate, though I understand the reservations about her. I do not much weep for RINOs and rather enjoy the sight of them going down in flames.

What this really should communicate, I think, is that the Right needs a lot more Club for Growth–style candidate-recruiting efforts. If conservatives do not like O’Donnell, then they should be out identifying better candidates to run against vulnerable RINOs — because somebody is going to run. These incumbent takedowns are going to inspire a lot of new people to get into electoral politics, many of them without the sort of experience or backgrounds that Establishment types are comfortable with. Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

The proper job of those who feel that O’Donnell is a sure loser wasn’t to back Castle, but to find someone better than both Castle or O’Donnell. Understand this if nothing else out of 2010: politics has become a free for all. A catch-as-catch-can wrestling match where nothing can be taken for granted. This is not a cycle of “Republicans win, Democrats win, Republicans win” politics – this is a new thing…the GOP is no longer one of America’s two major parties, it just happens to be the party that the people are willing to use, provisionally, to express their views at the polls.

The Democrats, holding power and with a supine grassroots, is so far out of the game. Once they are out of power, what the TEA Party has done to the GOP will start to be done to them by some group which, fed up, will start agitating at the grass roots. Things only appear to be the same – everything has actually changed.

O’Donnell is not a sure loser in Delaware. Heck, Pelosi isn’t a sure winner in San Francisco. Not any longer. Even the prospect of a serious primary challenge to Obama must be envisioned. And don’t be surprised if the eventual GOP nominee in 2012 is someone you’ve never heard of. This isn’t politics as usual, this is revolution.

If you don’t like what is happening, don’t complain – get in there and fight it out. There are no restrictions any longer and there is no power elite who will be able to keep the lid on you. Ideas are to be presented to the people, and they will get to decide who wins – and everyone had better get used to that.

UPDATE: Did Catholics carry O’Donnell to victory?

HAT TIP: Gay Patriot

Big Government has the audio – here’s the transcript of the message left on the donor’s voice mail:

This is, uh, Eleanor Norton, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Uh, I noticed that you have given to uh, other colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I am a, um, Senior Member, a twenty year veteran and am Chair of the Sub-committee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. I’m handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security Compound of three buildings being built on the uh, old St. Elizabeth’s hospital site in the District of Columbia along with uh, fifteen other, uh, sites here for, that are part of the stimulus .

I was, frankly, uh, uh, surprised to see that we don’t have a record, so far as I can tell, of your having given to me despite my uh, long and deep uh, work. In fact, it’s been my major work, uh, on the committee and sub-committee it’s been essentially in your sector.

I am, I’m simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. As the senior member of the um, committee and a sub-committee chair, we have (chuckles) obligations to raise, uh funds. And, I think it must have been me who hasn’t, frankly, uh, done my homework to ask for a contribution earlier. So I’m trying to make up for it by asking for one now, when we particularly, uh, need, uh contributions, particularly those of us who have the seniority and chairmanships and are in a position to raise the funds.

I’m asking you to give to Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, PO Box 70626, DC, 20024. I’ll send you a follow-up note with appreciation for having heard me out. Thanks again.

That is what they do, boys and girls – and this also signals just how desperate the Democrats are getting.

This is what we’re fighting against. And, yes, I’m sure some Republicans do it, too. But we’re already changing that. Unfortunately, the Democrat rank-and-file lacks the spirit to start up a TEA Party movement (they do tend to only follow orders…and as they haven’t been ordered to fight against the establishment…), the only way we’re going to clean up that side of the aisle is by ejecting it from office.

Come on, November: hurry up and get here!