Hastert on "Cut and Run" Government:

"We can't allow the terrorists to shake our resolve," Hastert says in one way or another (in one riveting press release or another).

So we can't "cut and run" from Iraq, goes the so-called reasoning.

But when it comes to FEMA's abandonment of a far less expensive proposition, such as providing housing for the whole communities the President and Fristy-Hastert have left behind in the wake of Katrina, he says nothing.

Here's a tip: stop using these jingoistic phrases (which, by the way, no longer "resonate" in the voter's head the way you intend) and start doing something that follows common sense.