[ccmay]

This should be part and parcel of a long-term strategy to bleed the Left of most of its funding.

Tort reform will be a major part of it, of course. Much of the Democrats' funding comes from the filthy trial lawyer pirates, who deserve not only pauperization but public horse-whipping.

The unions will need to be crushed, especially the Teamsters and the NEA. It is obvious that they were up to their eyeballs in sleazy deals to benefit Clinton and Gore. It's time they had a proctological examination by the Justice Department and IRS every time they spend a dollar. We can start by really cramming the Beck decision down their throats.

Not just the 'watermelon' environmental groups, but the whole panoply of non-profit bleeding-heart foundations needs to have its Federal funding eviscerated. They profess to be helping poor folks, but by and large they are boondoggles for mobilizing armies of otherwise unemployable social-work and liberal-arts majors. These worthless parasites, along with the unions, provide the foot soldiers for the Democratic machine. They need a boot in the ass and an honest job in the private sector to keep them out of mischief.

I hope W. is thinking this far ahead and this ruthlessly. If so, we will bleed the leftists white, and the Republicans can be cemented in power for a generation.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Mandatory drug testing for ALL employees of 501(c) tax-exempt corporations as a condition for non-profit status would get rid of all Leftist non-profit tax leeches...

[logician2u]

Not just the 'watermelon' environmental groups, but the whole panoply of non-profit bleeding-heart foundations needs to have its Federal funding eviscerated. They profess to be helping poor folks, but by and large they are boondoggles for mobilizing armies of otherwise unemployable social-work and liberal-arts majors. These worthless parasites, along with the unions, provide the foot soldiers for the Democratic machine. They need a boot in the ass and an honest job in the private sector to keep them out of mischief.

I hope W. is thinking this far ahead and this ruthlessly. If so, we will bleed the leftists white, and the Republicans can be cemented in power for a generation.

Not meaning to dash your hopes, ccmay, but if you recall from pre-9/11 days (that's when serious debate essentially came to an end), Pres. Bush was actually heading the opposite direction from what you are suggesting.

His plan to give grants to churches and "faith-based organizations" was the compassionate conservative version of the Democrats funding unions and greenies so they'd stay subservient. It was a sure-fire, guaranteed way to corrupt those churches that weren't already.

Enough of these subsidies! It doesn't matter who gets them, they become wards of the state and as a result are intensely interested in perpetuating whatever government programs will bring more money their way.