Tuesday Items

South Carolina: "Arch-conservative" RNC member Buddy Witherspoon will announce this week that he will challenge Lindsey Graham to a Senate primary in 2008 and will focus his campaign on illegal immigration, the central issue on which Graham has seen his base of support erode.

Nebraska: Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey will definitely not run for Senate in 2008. All eyes now turn to Scott Kleeb. Draft Kleeb!

Maine: Collins Watch takes a biting look at how Susan Collins is only now beginning to pay lip service to the kind of oversight responsibilities and open contracting processes that she didn't bother to fight for during her years as Chair of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Kentucky: Mitch McConnell's ad has been enhanced:

Mitch McConnell's ad, co-starring a convicted sexual harrasser

The parody enhancement of the ad