by Lynnell Mickelsen

Sounds like it's getting ugly out in the Chicago 'burbs today as the press waits for Speaker of the House to emerge from his suburban home.

The local NBC affiliate reports this morning, "As far as we know, Dennis Hastert has not emerged from his home here in at least the last 24 hours. And when he does, then he's gonna have a throng of media waiting for him.... there is so much media here that there's a Hastert security detail assigned to make sure we stay in line."

As Billmon notes "If they bring in the BATF and the bulldozers, then we'll know we've got a hostage-type situation here." While Paul Kiel asks, "If he comes out, and he sees his shadow, does that mean that he'll resign?"

I'm guessing he won't resign. Instead, he'll do what right-wingers tend to do whenever they're in trouble: Blame the Clenis. and Liberal Jew-Devil, George Soros.

You think I'm kidding? Check out Denny's interview with the Chicago Tribune.

"When the base finds out who's feeding this monster, they're not going to be happy. The people who want to see this thing blow up are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by [liberal activist] George Soros."

He went on to suggest that operatives aligned with former President Bill Clinton knew about the allegations and were perhaps behind the disclosures in the closing weeks before the Nov. 7 midterm elections, but he offered no hard proof.

"All I know is what I hear and what I see," the speaker said. "I saw Bill Clinton's adviser, Richard Morris, was saying these guys knew about this all along. If somebody had this info, when they had it, we could have dealt with it then."