Bush and religion and money. (Always follow the money)

One of the comments to this post voices my own hopes:

If the Dems take back Congress, I'd like to see a Special Prosecutor appointed within minutes to make Bush's life a living hell for the last two years of his administration.

From the Carpet Bagger

More pointedly, Kuo quotes an unnamed member of the review panel charged with rating grant applications.

"But," she said with a giggle, 'When I saw one of those non-Christian groups in the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero … a lot of us did.'"

In other words, Bush administration officials intentionally manipulated the federal grant process so that only certain types of people — in this case, people who were of the "right" religious faith — could qualify for funding.

If this sounds kind of familiar to you, there's a good reason.

It's because the Bush administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development did the exact same thing, only in Secretary Alphonso Jackson's case, officials didn't discriminate on the basis of religion, they discriminated on the basis of political affiliation.

Not to put too fine a point on this, it's illegal — indeed, it's a felony — for federal officials to manipulate the grant process like this.

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