Conservative Renewal Report

From time to time I’ll report on efforts to “clean out” the party of pain in the asses. Next up Chuck Grassley who decided last year to declare war on Christian Churches. Dumping Grassley Evangelicals and their allies, dominating last weekend’s Iowa Republican state convention, dumped their critic, Sen. Chuck Grassley, from the state’s delegation to the national convention in St. Paul, Minn. The five-term senator is Iowa’s senior Republican elected official. Grassley has aroused the ire of Christian conservatives by launching a Senate Finance Committee investigation of six televangelists for alleged lavish spending. Leading conservatives, headed by Paul Weyrich and Ken Blackwell, have charged Grassley with violating the First Amendment religious freedom guarantee. The 74-year-old Grassley once was considered the leader of the... [read full story]