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Hey, a Brand New Bush Administration Scandal!

Who would have thought it was possible, at this late date?

Apparently, the DOJ's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has been handing out its National Juvenile Justice Grants not based on the interests of America's at-risk kids, but on cronyism and fraud.

Programs ranked as highly effective by DOJ staff were ignored and denied funding, sometimes because they taught sex ed or because they catered to gay and lesbian teens. Meanwhile, poorly ranked programs were awarded millions of dollars because they had political, social, or religious connections to the Bush Administration. None of the top six programs received money, but the World Golf Foundation, ranked 47 out of 104, was funded. Former President George H. W. Bush sits on its board.

The full report is at ABC News. Embedding seems impossible. TNR notes that this exact scandal happened during the Reagan Administration.






Comments

Where do you think the colored caddies of tomorrow are going to come from if rethugs don't do something about it now? A whole generation of silver spooners could be forced to use a cart or worse, carry their own bag.

Posted by: madmatt on 06/10/08 at 9:54 AM  Respond

Shocking.

Posted by: Guy Incognito on 06/10/08 at 3:08 PM  Respond

The Bush Administration is beyond scandal, they have no morals or values so what another charge of cronisym when Sen.Obama takes over in January of 2009 all these chickenhawk cowards like Hannity,Limbaugh,Savage and O'Reilly will be sick hopefully they move to Iraq.

Posted by: cavadias on 06/10/08 at 4:29 PM  Respond

Cavadias:

I think Gitmo would be the place for these propagandists.

I truly hope Obama manages to get the RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE rhetoric off the air or toned down and actually balanced with the LEFT; instead of running rampant as it is now, without ever a real LEFT WING view, only RIGHT WINGERS playing like LEFT WINGERS, so that the people will have no idea what liberal is and think liberal is conservative and conservative is liberal.

Posted by: MarthaA on 06/10/08 at 4:49 PM  Respond

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