McBushCo's Attempt To Derail TrooperGate Investigation Fails (Plus Obama Runs An Attack Ad!)

From the AP (via TPM):

A Republican effort has failed to unseat the Alaska state senator overseeing the ethics investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she dismissed the state's public safety commissioner.

Democratic Sen. Hollis French was accused of manipulating the probe for political effect on the national and state elections. Republican Rep. John Coghill last week asked the Alaska Legislative Council to discuss replacing French as the probe's project director.

On Monday, the head of the Legislative Council turned down his request. Democratic Sen. Kim Elton responded that he is sure that partisan politics can be kept out of the probe.

By the way, Obama has finally decided to go on the attack with -- of all things -- an actual attack ad. You can view it here. The text reads:

They call themselves mavericks. Whoa. Truth is, they're anything but. John McCain is hardly a maverick, when seven of his top campaign advisers are Washington lobbyists. He's no maverick when he votes with Bush 90 percent of the time. And Sarah Palin's no maverick either. She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it. Politicians lying about their records? You don't call that maverick. You call it more of the same.

OK, it's a pretty good ad, but it's one that Obama arguably had to do out of political necessity. What I want to see is many more attack ads from Camp Obama which don't merely respond to what the McCain Campaign is doing, but explore new territory. For example, an ad which attacks Senator McCain for his many recent foreign policy gaffes would certainly piss off McCain to no end.

Or how about this -- we always hear that McCain "votes with Bush 90% of the time." That's all very interesting, but is it actually true that McCain currently differs from Bush on 10% of the issues? Although it is true that, many years ago, McCain voted against Bush's tax cuts for the very wealthy, McCain now supports the extension of those tax cuts. So my question stands -- on what issue does McCain's position currently differ from the position of the Bush Regime?

Are there any? If not, then that fact might make a pretty good subject for an attack ad.