A plague of locusts!!!

It's been a busy, busy time for us here at the Institute, and blogging has been embarrassingly light. Still, I like to consider this a blog of substance, and so much of our local dialogue has been vapid rhetorical excess ...

which brings me to this ... Uncle Ted seems to have lost his sense of humor on this one (if he ever had one), but he really doesn't have any standing to complain. He has inserted himself forcefully into the Tony/Lisa race, in a manner marked by unfettered hyperbole and ferarmongering. He deserves to be made fun of and ridiculed (I thought the whole "bees will attack your privates!" bit was especially good), because his performance is beneath him, and is nothing short of embarrassing. More importantly, Stevens' and especially Young's efforts for Murkowski are at least close to the line, legally - when does all of this effort amount to an in-kind contribution? When does a Don Young campaign ad become a Murkowski campaign ad?

Knowles is getting triple-teamed, because these guys all know Murkowski can't win on her own merits. It may be effective for them, but it's unethical politics - a further sign of the creeping infection of DC partisanism into Alaska politics.