But we would rather not pay for it. Which is the gist of what the management of that right wing group-think tank told David Frum according to Adam Nagourney of the NY Times.

Frum had responded to the call of conscience and, as a reasonable person interested in the long term survival of the conservative movement, criticized the leadership of the Republican party for their nihilist opposition to health care reform and for their cultivation of our current crop of domestic brown shirts - a.k.a the tea party movement.

Frum was offered a 100% pay cut. It appears that donors called the American Enterprise Institute.

Now Wonks Anonymous understands why moderate Republicans are so uniformly silent about the bad behavior of their party's leaders and their party's base.

Still folks, wouldn't it be easier to take a public stand against this insanity now? These guys hate you almost as much as they hate driveling liberals like Wonks Anonymous. You will be purged anyway so you might as well get some favorable press before the show trials start.