As Steve Sailer has pointed out, the GOP has been stronger among married folk with children, and thus in places where real estate prices are low enough not to discourage breeding.

It is precisely peoople with children who are horrified not so much by Rep. Chickenhawk hmself as by what is at best the tone-deafness of the leadership on something that would be obvious to any parent. “Famiy values,” my a**. And besides, their record otherwise has been worse than undistinguished.

I politically depise Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and the bunch that would run the House if the GOP is turned out, but Speaker Hastert acting like a small-time Bernard Law was too much for me. My own reaction was “Screw these people. If they can’t or won’t protect their own young employees, they deserve no confidence on anything else.”

And Henry Waxman will no doubt conduct some interesting investigations.