Dirty work delegated

Sen. Rick Santorum plays flying monkey to Majority Leader Bill Frist's Wicked Witch of the West.

Apparently Santorum was tasked with reassuring conservative activist groups that Frist is committed to "going nuclear" on the filibuster rule for judicial nominations ... even as some industry interests balk at the nuclear option, which could hold up all sorts of other, more important dirty business they want to do in Congress this spring. (The Hill)

The big question about the Republican Party these days is, who wins out when the ideological constituency and the economic constituency disagree? Where is the soul of the party truly located--in Lynchburg, Virginia or on K Street? Only time will tell.