The Scrapbook reported two weeks ago that Texas Rural Legal Aid, an arm of the Legal Services Corporation, had returned to the leftie glory days of the 1970s by filing suit on behalf of two Democratic office-seekers who had lost local elections. Well, the corporation and its tax-supported outposts are not supposed to engage in politics, and certain Republicans were up in arms over it -- and amazingly the outrage spread to corporation headquarters back in Washington.
Texas senators Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison sent letters to the Legal Services Corporation and the Justice Department alleging "blatant political activity." Whereupon the Legal Services Corporation fired off an alarmed and indignant letter to its Texas subsidiary notifying it of a " substantial violation" of the grant agreement.
Sometimes it's worth remembering that it really does matter who controls Congress.