who pays for Republican follies (the profits of Robertson)

From the Daily Kos, 2005:

FEMA has released to the media and on its Web site a list of suggested charities to help the storm's (Katrina) hundreds of thousands of victims. The Red Cross is first on the list.
The Rev. Pat Robertson's "Operation Blessing" is next on the list.

Operation Blessing was among 21 groups receiving a total of $25 million from HHS (Dept. of Health and Human Services). The Associated Press reported that grants from the Compassion Capital Fund "were designed to provide technical assistance to smaller churches and others that need help applying for and running government programs." Although HHS has indicated that smaller groups dealing with homelessness, hunger, at-risk children, welfare to work, drug addicts and prisoners "should get priority for the sub-grants," in the end, the primary grantees will be making those decisions.