RHODE ISLAND LOOKING GOOD

Good Rasmussen numbers out of Rhode Island. The newest poll shows Sheldon Whitehouse up 49% to 39% against moderate-when-it-doesn't-matter Lincoln Chafee. With leaners it's 52% to 41%.

Whitehouse also has twice as much money on hand as does Chafee ($1.4 million to $700K).

Poor Lincoln, you had your chance to become a Democrat. You vote with us on energy, budget issues, Iraq, torture, etc. But you had to try and stay in the GOP, when your mentor and dad's friend Jim Jeffords knew it was time for all sane people to leave, and now you'll pay the price for that most important vote: for Frist as leader.

Well, there's always that job shoeing horses in Montana to go back to.