Byron is so right in his report about GOP anger at Houses Speaker Dennis Hastert for his inept, counterproductive response to the Jefferson investigation. Just in the past few days, I’ve heard from many Republican activists that for the first time they felt true fury at Hastert and mixed feelings about the prospect of re-electing the GOP majority. This is dangerous territory on the politics – and, to boot, was a ridiculous position to take on the law. It also reminded me, for some reason, of Tom Wolfe’s famous rejoinder to Irving Kristol’s “mugged by reality” aphorism. Wolfe said “a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.”