Look at this week's columns....

It is becoming apparent even to the Washington chattering class that things aren't all sunshine and roses......what is it going to take for those elected to wake up and smell Rome burning?

Ruffled Republican feathers
by Tony Blankley 05/31
With Congress out of town for a week, it gives the nation a chance
to lick our wounds before having to endure the next round of
damaging blows to the body politic.
Why not ban abortion now?
by Terence Jeffrey 05/31
When I asked Mehlman whether the pro-life issue was good
for Republicans, his response was instantaneous. "Absolutely,"
he said.
Republican hypocrisy
by Linda Chavez 05/31
What is going on with Republicans in Congress? They've largely
abandoned many traditional conservative principles -- smaller
government, belief in the free market and protection of individual,
not group, rights.
Since when is Congress worried about the separation of power
by Jacob Sullum 05/31
Confronted by a president who asserts the prerogative to ignore
the will of Congress whenever he thinks national security requires
it, our brave representatives in Washington are squabbling over
who gets to watch when the FBI thumbs through their corrupt
colleagues' calendars.
The President says it again
by William F. Buckley 05/30
The broad shoulders of a national election loom just ahead. It is
traditional to deplore elections as distracting from courses charted
by celestial coordinates. Sure; OK; much of this is true. But elections
also ratify, or fail to do so, politicians who have set forth national
policy.
Lessons from the immigration war
by Cal Thomas 05/30
The war now being waged in Congress over illegal immigration is
mostly about which philosophy will prevail in the Republican Party.
Will it be the conservative wing that brought the GOP to power
after years of wandering in the political wilderness as a minority
party, or will it be the moderate-liberal wing that became
comfortable in the wilderness?
Conservatives must hold firm on immigration
by David Limbaugh 05/31
The prevailing mentality among Beltway Republicans is that
passage of an imperfect immigration bill before the November
elections is better than no bill at all. They might just find out
how wrong they are when they experience the inevitable
conservative backlash.
The case for extremism
by Jonah Goldberg 05/31
Americans love their angry moderates, their principled
centrists and their predictable independents almost as much
as they love jumbo shrimp and other oxymorons.

And of course, do not miss Jacoby's column in the Boston Globe...
..it's a doozy. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion
/oped/articles/2006
/05/31/the_crumbling_gop_base/
"The Crumbling GOP Base". Any other good news out there?

So what, then, shall we do, fellow conservatives?