Michelle Malkin makes the excellent point that Republicans are falling short in the housekeeping department: The rotten American Conservative Union/David Keene pay-for-play scandal underscores a point I’ve made over and over and over again: The GOP can’t attack the Democrat culture of corruption ( my new book comes out July 27 ) until it cleans its own house first. The John Ensign mess keeps getting worse . Stubborn, selfish, prevaricating Mark Sanford keeps embarrassing himself and conservatism.

Donald Douglas reports at American Power: Today was another big day for the national tea party movement. Turnout was robust around the country, although some protesters were met with harrassment and profanity. Michelle Malkin and Glenn Reynolds have reports. Plus, at Pajamas Media TV, Amy Kremer of TeaPartyPatriots.org (see, “Nationwide Protests Target ObamaCare: The People Say No to Gov’t Run Healthcare”). Also via Instapundit, “Bureaucrash at the Healthcare Freedom Tea Party Protest” (YouTube).

Yesterday was a crappy day for conservatives, but also illustrates a point that those who claim particular values should also live by them as well. The Politico’s Mike Allen broke a story about The American Conservative Union , which is the nation’s oldest conservative lobbying organization, they also are the group that puts on CPAC .  They had asked FedEx to pay them between $2-3 Million in return for their support in a legislative dispute.  When FedEx didn’t pay they went with UPS instead.