he Bush administration is actively seeking to gag or punish social service organizations that challenge the party line on such matters as health care for poor children and HIV prevention, according to a new report. Nonprofits that disagree with the president's own solutions, or go further and blame him for problems in the first place, have come to expect unpleasant consequences. Those might include audits of federal-funds spending and reviews of content, such as workshop literature.
"If you disagree with the administration on ideological grounds, they're going to come down with a hammer. This has huge implications for the free flow of speech in this country," says Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, itself a nonprofit, which released the report last week as part of its 20-year-old mission to monitor White House budget and spending decisions.
Anyone want to play devil's advocate and justify this? I can't see ANYTHING good about it. . . . . .
It reminds me of the argument that came up on campus before the war: "If you get federal aid and disagree with the President, you have no right to that aid so you'd better give it back." That logic sucked...cause there were lots of campus conservatives who opposed Clinton's very existence when he was President and I can bet not a one gave back their aid.
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