Our Tax Dollars in Action

The Bush Administration paid Armstrong Williams $240,000 in taxpayers' money to promote his No Child Left Behind proposal on his syndicated television show, and urged him to get other black jounalists to do the same.

Could this be legal, you ask?

The contract may be illegal "because Congress has prohibited propaganda," or any sort of lobbying for programs funded by the government, said Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "And it's propaganda."

It seems that Bush did something similar last year, and got a "scolding" from the GAO.

The Bush administration used similar releases last year to promote its Medicare prescription drug plan, prompting a scolding from the Government Accountability Office, which called them an illegal use of taxpayers' dollars.

Evidently, that "scolding" was not a harsh enough penalty to keep him from doing it again. How bad does he have to get before we can impeach?