Here's a good article about ACORN.
When looking at issues like this it really becomes difficult to say whether someone like Senator Darrell Issa is a knuckle dragging moron or a cynical and corrupt charlatan. Bill Russell, circa 1980, may have said, "Actually Brent it's a combination of both."
However, given the following, I'd lean more towards the dim witted perspective.
...It (Issa's Defund ACORN Act) hoists right-wingers on their own corporate petards. When passing the Defund ACORN Act, proponents asserted that while it focused on the poor people's group, Congress intended a broad implementation that would cut off federal funding for "any organization" that has been charged by authorities with breaking federal election laws, lobbying-disclosure laws, or campaign-finance laws, or with filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal agency.
Hello! ACORN has not been so charged, but guess who has? A who's who of fat-cat war contractors, that's who!
On the day he voted to defund the little community group, Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns sanctimoniously declared, "Somebody has to go after ACORN." How courageous, senator, but what about the big criminals?
Jeremy Scahill, the excellent investigative reporter, notes that Blackwater (such a notoriously bad corporate player that it has recently changed its name and ousted its CEO to try to buff up its image) has taken more than $1 billion in federal contracts and continues to receive more contracts despite being charged with fraud, tax evasion, arms smuggling, and manslaughter. Just one of Blackwater's contracts that is now under investigation totals $55 million. That is $2 million more than the total federal dollars allotted to ACORN in the past 15 years....
Well, it's not like Blackwater killed anyone....Oh, wait I guess they have, haven't they.
Hello word!!!
Posted by: Alex | April 10, 2010 at 03:57 AM