Every so often Novakula reports something interesting. And this definitely qualifies.
Evangelicals and their allies, dominating last weekend's Iowa Republican state convention, dumped their critic, Sen. Chuck Grassley, from the state's delegation to the national convention in St. Paul, Minn. The five-term senator is Iowa's senior Republican elected official.
Grassley has aroused the ire of Christian conservatives by launching a Senate Finance Committee investigation of six televangelists for alleged lavish spending. Leading conservatives, headed by Paul Weyrich and Ken Blackwell, have charged Grassley with violating the First Amendment religious freedom guarantee.
Somehow I don't think throwing such an audacious insult against the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee is likely to stop those investigations.
Posted by armand at July 19, 2008 05:59 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Corruption | Extremism | Politics