[Torie]

Freepers will get over it, except those that were on a final exit strategy anyway. Freepers that get fixated on this puppie are simply not in the game, politically. They are just ventilating, and probably most of those don't have much interest in "art" anyway. Art is for girlie men. OK, the issue is whether the government should subsidize it on the surface. But do you think that is really the source of the emotion over the spending of pennies? Of course not.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I liked the Buck-Fifty for Marriage, and I like these twenty pennies for NEA. The Endowment will never again be spent on transgressive or political art - that's over.

This is a subliminal feel-good message to the Mushy Middle. This is a "W's Not a NAZI" message. He's wise and discriminating (in a good sense).

I don't think the spending spree will accelerate all through the campaign.

[Map Kernow]

Freepers will get over it, except those that were on a final exit strategy anyway. Freepers that get fixated on this puppie are simply not in the game, politically. They are just ventilating, and probably most of those don't have much interest in "art" anyway. Art is for girlie men. OK, the issue is whether the government should subsidize it on the surface. But do you think that is really the source of the emotion over the spending of pennies? Of course not.

I'm glad you can be so prodigal with other people's money as to deem a few million dollars "pennies." Also admire the snobbery in your conviction that people concerned over spending on the NEA "probably don't have much interest in art anyway."

But I'd still be interested in knowing, Mr. Erudite: what precisely are the "pennies" that you consider "well spent" on the NEA? Share with us poor benighted uneducated Bible banging "red meaters" the NEA programs informed people like you consider worth funding. Won't you please, Sir Oracle?

[af_vet_rr]

OK, the issue is whether the government should subsidize it on the surface. But do you think that is really the source of the emotion over the spending of pennies?

You can blow off other people's attitudes over "pennies" but it is exactly this kind of thinking that has gotten us the deficit and big government we have today.

Pork is pork, and election year politics are still election year politics, and this kind of spending of our money is very wasteful.