WONDERFUL!  LOVE IT, LOVE IT - AT 7:26 P.M. ET:  Just read this, from Andrew Malcolm's Top of the Ticket, at the L.A. Times:

Chicago politics, where voting is such a revered civic duty that people do it even after they're dead, cold, stiff, stuffed, boxed and buried beneath the permafrost for years, has now come to D.C. with the Obama administration.

This afternoon comes the most encouraging economic news, courtesy of our keen-eyed buddy Rick Klein over at ABC, that the Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420.

That works out to only $25,380.67 spent to create each individual job.

Seems like a lot per slot, but those 30 folks must be happy to be employed again and paying taxes.

This will be a real feather in the cap of Vice President Joe Biden, who's been left behind and assigned by the ever-campaigning president to monitor the stimulus plan, its spending and effectiveness moving into the crucial midterm elections of 2010. Might the Democrats snatch that House seat?

So the people of that 9th Congressional District in staunchly Republican Arizona should be pretty happy about this.

Trouble is, there is no 9th Congressional District in Arizona. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Doesn't exist. Not in Arizona. Not even on paper at the Democratic National Committee.

COMMENT:  Ah, Chicago politics.  Now you vote.  Then you die.  Now you vote again.  The congressional district doesn't exist?  Who cares?  It's just a number.  It exists in the hearts of good Democrats.

Don't be shocked.  I know these people.  They've counted votes from the Emerald City.  Dorothy won.

November 16, 2009