I'm reminded of a story I think I heard from my days as a summer camp counselor. The little girl walks up to the cute little bear sleeping in the cave and when she pets it, it wakes and shows big white teeth.

Dennis Hastert, the current Speaker of the House, looks like a nice Midwestern guy. He's kinda grandfatherly or nice old uncle that gives you candy. He seems relatively harmless politically, in his position due to not being Newt Gingrich or Tom DeLay more than any positive quality. He doesn't have much in the way of signature issues, but will occasionally pop things out like his trial balloon of a national sales tax.

But under the surface, it appears that Hastert has big teeth. Recent quotes show that he's just as evil, petty, and Roveian as the rest.

The Speaker went on: "Well, that's what he's been for a number years - George Soros has been for legalizing drugs in this country. So, I mean, he's got a lot of ancillary interests out there." Wallace: "You think he may be getting money from the drug cartel?" Hastert: "I'm saying I don't know where groups - could be people who support this type of thing. I'm saying we don't know."

I hope George read that.

And reached for his checkbook.