Bob Harris' last post for TT

I know people who are, but I haven't been able to get to be a big fan of Tom Tomorrow. Maybe it's just timing, but the times I've tried to read his blog, he's been doing the "buy my book" thing more than writing.

I did get turned on to Bob Harris, though, through another Bob whose blog I always read. Bob Harris has been guest-blogging the Tom Tomorrow blog.

I'm pasting Harris' whole last post before TT got back this week:

Nov. 14

Funding the GOP convention by calling it a children's charity

(Note: this entry posted by Bob Harris)

Oh, this is just whole new levels of unexplored wrongness: according to the New York Times , House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Innovative Corruption) has set up a charity for abused and neglected children -- which will funnel at least some of the money to the 2004 GOP convention.

... aides to Mr. DeLay... acknowledged that part of the money would go to pay for late-night convention parties, a luxury suite during President Bush's speech at Madison Square Garden and yacht cruises.

-- snip --

"They are using the idea of helping children as a blatant cover for financing activities in connection with a convention with huge unlimited, undisclosed, unregulated contributions," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a Washington group that helped push through the recent overhaul of the campaign finance laws.

The donors not only get a tax break, but they also get to make a massive, unlimited political contribution in a manner that will never be accounted for publicly.

And apparently the idea is catching on. Senator Bill Frist (R-Slaughtering Cats) is planning to do the same thing, staging an event at Rockefeller Center for six-figure Republican donors... and calling it an AIDS charity.

I'm gonna be sick.

Vomitorium. I been tellin' ya.

Here. Use this.