For those of us who worked in the United States Congress before and during the Republicans' 12 year control of the Congress, it seemed that whenever a Democrat occupied the White House, the pornographic smut  --  paid for by hard-working American taxpayers  --  just kept churning out of the National Endowment for the Arts.   

Indeed, those of us working in the U.S. House of Representatives actually managed to eliminate funding altogether for the NEA one year because of such proclivities by the NEA.  Of course, some of the panty-waist blue-blood Republicans in the U.S. Senate went along with the Democrats and continued to fund, and increase funding for the NEA.  

Now that a Democrat is back in the White House, the mindless bureaucrats at the NEA are challenging the commonsense of the American people who do not want to pay for such smut posing as art such as "Piss Christ" and Maplethorpe's homo-erotic garbage, as they were forced to do in the 1980's, until the Republicans forced them to back off.   

Barack Obama's NEA is at it again much to the consternation of the Republicans in the House of Representatives.  Recently, the NEA gave $50,000 to Frameline  --  based in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco  --  a filmhouse which has as its mission to:  "strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by supporting and promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic expression in film, video and other media arts."  For example, such art as Framework's pornographic film featuring a gorilla, three women and four men called "Thundercrack."  

Amanda Carpenter reported in her "The Washington Times" column yesterday that the NEA also supported to the tune of $25,000 of Americans' tax dollars a thing called "Perverts Put Out" through a group called CounterPULSE and another $25,000 to Jess Curtis/Gravity Inc. which created the Symmetry Project showing nude couples and their children on occasion.   

Florida Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns  --  a long-time opponent to the garbage that the National Endowment for the "Arts" has funded for decades, with a brief pause during Republican-controlled Congresses  --  said about this latest NEA scandal:  "My objection is that taxpayer dollars should not be used to support offensive and indecent projects.  If these art organizations are such a benefit to their communities, then those who indulge in these pornographic exhibitions should support those organizations instead of taxpayers who find these projects abhorrent."    

It is time for both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to zero out this out-of-control organization.  American taxpayers do not want to waste their money on such garbage.