This is also an example of the rewards of being famous or notorious, take your pick.

“[Frum] acknowledges he was very seldom at the [AEI] office. But he maintains he developed and spread conservative ideas — AEI’s stated goal — with the 300,000 words a year that he writes for his blog, frumforum.com; his weekly columns for cnn.com, The Week, and the National Post of Canada; his biweekly offerings for TIME and American Public Media’s “Marketplace”; and his three TV and three radio appearances in a typical week. He also landed Canadian Finance Minister James Flaherty for an AEI retreat last month that included donors.”

In other words, his AEI post was a ginormous hand-job. He was getting $100k a year to lend his weight to the masthead, while getting paid elsewhere for everything he wrote. He was, at most, responsible for giving reach-arounds to “donors”.

I’m not saying this is exclusive to the GOP, but it is how it works. Once you’ve kissed the right [!] asses, people will hand you an extra hundred grand annually just for the use of your name.

One of the reasons America is fed up with the “lites”. We know we’re being buggered, but rarely do we get a chance to see the buggery this plainly.

“Frum tells us that regardless of his dismay with the party, he’ll stay registered GOP.”

Damn right he will. It’s where the money is.