There's a report out today that some Republicans in Congress are talking about cutting our donation to the U.N. in response to their continued corruption and refusal to reform. Its a nice idea but the proposed cuts are really laughable:

At least $17 million has been sliced this week from the Bush administration's appropriations request for the U.N. regular budget, as frustration with the United Nations continues to fester among conservative lawmakers.

Rep. Scott Garrett, New Jersey Republican, yesterday won approval in a House subcommittee to cut $2 million from the U.S. contribution to the U.N. budget, saying that taxpayer money should not be used to lobby the U.S. government.

He was referring to a recent speech by Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, who told two left-leaning think tanks, the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation, that Washington should do more to defend the international organization in public.

Another $15 million was diverted from the $1.28 billion request for contributions to international organizations to fund domestic law-enforcement programs. Rep. Michael McCaul, Texas Republican, successfully demanded that the United States should not pay anything toward the new Human Rights Council as long as countries on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism such as Cuba serve on the 47-member body.

A few million here and there out of billions being given to the U.N., hardly enough to send a serious signal.  Its election year posturing pure and simple.

If they were serious they'd threaten most or all of the funding and they might get a response.  Short of that there is just too much money to be stolen and power to be abused to make it worth changing for just a few million dollars.  Much less that the corrupt scum in the U.N. can probably get the EU to make up to counterbalance the US.

So everyone is posturing all around while the U.N. corruption, theft, abandonment of principles, and child sex slavery continues unabated.  Nice.