September 15, 2009

The War on ACORN Continues

By a vote of 83-7 the Senate voted today to ban ACORN from receiving housing grants. Look - bipartisanship! The 7 senators who would rain on FoxNews' parade were Bernie Sanders of Vermont and 6 Democrats - Leahy of Vermont, Casey of Pennsylvania, Burris and Durbin of Illinois, Whitehouse of Rhode Island, and Gillibrand of New York.

Posted by armand at September 15, 2009 05:50 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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Not that I think ACORN is running the tightest ship or anything, but how many McDonalds stores would we have to go to and try to entrap employees into directing us to a drug dealer before we succeeded? How many Macy's? How many office buildings before someone knew where to buy cocaine in the building, in the offices of a large respectable corporation?

This isn't citizen journalism, this is sheer inanity. It took them 6 or 8 offices to find someone sufficiently compliant. It could have taken them 16 or 20 offices. It could have taken them 50, but all you'd hear about is the 50th. So so very sad, that such a concerted effort is directed at an organization that, at root, is trying to enfranchise and empower people forgotten by virtually everyone else.

I only wish our left-wing activists could just as effectively pursue the long list of individuals and corporations who rob this country, to the tune of billions of dollars annually, of lawfully imposed tax levies. Now _that's_ a problem. Some gullible or (from the looks of her) deeply indifferent ACORN functionary humoring some doofus kids, though, that's surely worth a massive effort and a media circus.

Incidentally, I googled around on Hannah Giles, the very young woman who was part of the dynamic duo, and she's hilarious. Daughter of a not-so-prominent right wing columnist, she's following in daddy's footsteps, jumbling right wing talking points together more or less at random to mock, in my brief perusal of her work (which is very much of the I'm-a-grown-up-journalist-now-look-at-me ilk), Hillary (because in campaign rhetoric she said the GOP should just give up the Presidential election), environmentalists (something about the methane tax in the new energy bill, with attendant fart jokes galore), and, um, I forget what the other was.

Anyway, she and her father (coincidence?) are over at townhall.[something] for those who are interested. I can't be bothered. Once was too much.

Posted by: moon at September 16, 2009 04:44 PM | PERMALINK
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