Will he have to turn in his clown shoes too?

Clownhaller Bruce Bartlett takes a bold stand: He'd rather whitewash the Reagan Administration's criminal legacy than Bush's:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 - In the latest sign of the deepening split among conservatives over how far to go in challenging President Bush, Bruce Bartlett, a Republican commentator who has been increasingly critical of the White House, was dismissed on Monday as a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative research group based in Dallas.

In a statement, the organization said the decision was made after Mr. Bartlett supplied its president, John C. Goodman, with the manuscript of his forthcoming book, "The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy."

Barlett throws down in his Clownhall column too.

The rats are deserting the sinking shit.