Uh-Oh...

It's very bad news for the team of Blunt Hastert and Delay when a Conservative writer offers the following:

"The GOP began to sell out its principles shortly after seizing control of Congress in 1994, but the abuses continue to grow. Today, as a few courageous House fiscal conservatives press for offsets against the virtually unlimited spending proposed in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Speaker and his coterie have acted like a woman scorned. Preaching unity, they have trashed any Republican suggesting that free-spending bail-outs are not the conservative way."

It's especially bad when it appears in a featured column spot in the American Spectator magazine, and is then picked up by the Libertarian Cato Institute. The very worst part is that the author, Doug Bandow, has some very Reagan credentials.

See? Independents responsible for Reagan's success are finally fleeing the sinking ship.

My advice: If Denny is home for the weekend, you'll want to stay out of all the Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kremes in the district. Somebody's gonna be bingin'.