Ties that bind: Obama and the recently stimulated

"Our editorial of today discusses the many regrettable and forgettable arts groups that are receiving small stimulus grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, such as the producers of timeless classics like "Perverts Put Out" and "What's Under That Skirt?"

What is less commonly known is the connection that several of these groups have to President Obama's 2008 campaign. Leaders of at least seven of the fortunate, newly stimulated and NEA-subsidized art groups also happened to serve on the Arts Policy Committee of the Obama campaign last year.

Among them is Obama's law school classmate, Nancy McCullough, whose California Lawyers for the Arts received a $50,000 grant. CLA is an advocacy organization which takes government money and, among other things, uses it to urge people to write their elected officials and ask for more government money."