[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The investigation was ordered by Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and Frank Lautenberg earlier this year, in the wake of reports the Education Department had paid newspaper columnist and television commentator Armstrong Williams thousands of dollars to help promote the No Child Left Behind Law.

Interesting, since No Child Left Behind was a Kennedy initiative. The rats got NCLB but the Repubs didn't get school vouchers. This is what you get when you make a deal with a DemonRat.

[repinwi]

More from the article: (this is classic!)

"In statements that followed the GAO report, Senator Kennedy and Lautenberg demanded the misused money be returned to the government."

"The taxpayer funded propaganda coming from the White House is another sign of the culture of corruption that pervades the White House and Republican leadership," argued Kennedy.

[elfman2]

"The rats got NCLB but the Repubs didn't get school vouchers "

Yep, they settle for standardized testing, probably hoping that would lead to vouchers.

[atlaw]

Interesting, since No Child Left Behind was a Kennedy initiative.

Huh? It was sponsored in the House by Republican Rep. John A. Boehner, and cosponsored by Tom Delay, John Culberson, Richard Baker, Dennis Hastert, Henry Brown, Jim Kolbe, and a host of other republican reps.