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"Failed terror plot a reminder that everybody should stop complaining about how bad I screwed up Iraq."

Seriously, I heard Dick Morris tell Bill O'Reilly tonight that Bush's numbers will "go up 10 points" to the mid-40's and the Democrats chances will go down the tubes. "I'm tearing up my predictions for the November elections because of this," says Morris.

O'Reilly:"If this had happened on Monday, Lieberman would have won the election because he is tough on terror."

Well, sure. Next, we'll hear that Bush and Lieberman busted the terrorists' door down with a fireman's axe and handcuffed the bad guys themselves.

And in a related story, Republicans are talking up Joe Lieberman's candidacy, all the way from "Dick" Cheney and Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman on down to struggling GOP candidates for the Senate:

Minnesota Republican senate candidate Mark Kennedy, a dozen points behind Democrat Amy Klobuchar in latest poll (Rasmussen, 8/1), endorses Lieberman. So does McGavick in Washington state. He's down 11 points (Rasmussen, 7/17).

(HT to Josh Marshall)