Blogger Tim Hulsey's
My Stupid Dog site takes a look at a fundraiser for the
Charlottesville, Vir., AIDS/HIV Services Group (ASG) that turned
into an anti-GOP hate fest. Hulsey notes:
There was one joke claiming that Bush and an al-Qaida terrorist were alike, because each one "takes flying lessons and works to destroy the country." (You see, Bush was a member of the Texas Air National Guard, which makes him practically the same as the folks who flew those planes into the World Trade Center. Get it?)
And he comments:
[W]hen a nonprofit charity with tax-exempt status and a generous share of public money sponsors explicitly partisan political invective, I have a very big problem. ...
Over the past three years, Congress has increased public funds for organizations like ASG by nearly thirty percent. Meanwhile, Virginia's [GOP controlled] legislature retained and expanded drug subsidies during hard economic times, and even expanded its own funding for AIDS prevention efforts. Thanks largely to these massive infusions of public money, ASG has managed to expand over the past two years -- renting larger offices, starting a new family-housing plan, and serving more clients over a larger area than ever before.
In short, Republican legislators helped make AIDS/HIV Services Group the social-service organization it is today. Last night, while their backs were turned, they finally received their reward.
And it's all par for the course. But remind me, which is
supposed to be the Party of Hate?