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Dick Morris is certain Republicans will lose the House, and may lose the Senate. I'm probably an idiot for disagreeing, but I don't believe it. Conservatives just got interested this weekend. That's the way conservatives are. By tomorrow, enough of them will vote for Republicans to keep both houses. I predict Republicans will lose 12-15 seats in the House, and 4-5 seats in the Senate. Quin Hillyer drank the Republican cool-aid.

Matthew Benjamin and Rich Miller point out that gridlock historically means less spending and smaller deficits.

President Bush jokingly says that the Democrats are great as the minority party. If only this was true. Unfortunately, the Democrats have vacated the field of ideas. Instead of debating policies, they chose to sit on the sidelines, critize and point fingers. The result is that Republicans have co-opted liberal, big spending policies, and ballooned the budget and deficit. Democrat's failure to debate the path to victory in the War on Terror and War in Iraq has emboldened the terrorists and left us with a weaker plan. America needs a strong, opposition party to keep the majority party in check, and Democrats have failed miserably.

Nancy Pelosi has her excuse ready. She's afraid Republicans won't count the votes right. As if Republicans had sole control of any voting precinct.

Iran already gives away their missiles to Syria and Hezbollah. What is the point of this announcement? Are they simply trying to draw in more Middle Eastern allies?

It used to be mad plans like this only happened in movies. Jihadists are dangerously insane. The War on Terror won't end until Muslim women care more about their children than the jihadists.

Democrat Orson Scott Card breaks down the War on Terror, it's history and it's goals, explains why Bush's strategy is effective, and worries about congressional elections undermining the Bush plan. If you are looking for a reason to vote Republican, this is it.

"Lundberg attributed the 12-week slide in [gas] prices to a late-summer oversupply." This is the closest we're going to get to an admission that big oil was manipulating the gas market, driving up prices this summer. They were pulling supply from the market, ostensibly as a hedge against a hurricane interrupting supply. Reducing supply drives up prices. When Big Oil put that inventoried supply back into the market, it drove down prices. This is colusion, and it's illegal. Funny how the extra supply ends right at the election.

The Washington Times has a 5 part story on Democrats' plans if they take over Congress. The timing of this story is intended to scare people into voting against Democrats.
Thomas Sowell points out that the mainstream media are political operatives for Democrats. They always have been, but since the emergence of the right-wing media, the mainstream media has been far more obvious.