Serendipity!

Wow, what luck for Lisa ... just weeks before the election, when things are looking bleak for the R's chances to keep the Senate, she gets an unexpected boost - the White House drops its "principled opposition" to incentives for the Alaska gas line, and it sails through the House in 20 minutes.

This kind of play says a lot more about the WH than it says about Li'l Lisa, but if she manages to pull this election out of the hat, she'll be so deeply in hock to the Republican leadership, she won't be able to cast an independent vote for years.

I don't think she's going to get the kind of mileage she was hoping for out of this one, though ...