AT BEST OF THE WEB, more criticism of Dennis Hastert’s claim of special privileges for Congress:

Hastert and Boehner’s objections are bound to rub many Republican constitutents the wrong way. After all, the first plank of the Contract With America was a promise to “require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress.” Something like this makes it harder to argue that the GOP deserves to maintain its majority.

Indeed.