Boehner wants ACORN rooted out of the Federal government.


And boiling water poured on the roots, no doubt.

House Minority Leader John Boehner today called for the complete decoupling of notorious Democratic ally ACORN from the federal government:

“The latest allegations of voter registration fraud by ACORN are further evidence that this group cannot be trusted with another dollar of the taxpayers’ money.

“Election cycle after election cycle, this organization has been at the forefront of breaking the law in order to promote their left-wing agenda. All the while, they have been the recipients of millions of dollars of federal funding through various federal programs and third-party groups. House Republicans took at stand recently to cut off funding to an ACORN slush fund created by their allies in the House Majority, but now more must be done.

“All federal funding to ACORN must be stopped. The ACORN slush fund must be disbanded. Sources of federal funding through the Department of Housing and Urban Development or any other agency must be stopped. Contracting for services between candidates for federal office and ACORN, as Senator Obama has done, must end. Now that the taxpayers own Fannie Mae, any funding from Fannie Mae’s nonprofit foundation to ACORN must stop.

“ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America’s economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution. Now it is time to cut off ACORN before it grows even more destructive.”

If you’re surprised that ACORN is involved in the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac subprime loan debacle, you shouldn’t be: the group has worked with the Democrats for the last thirty years in order to relax mortgage eligibility restrictions. A slow process, but a rewarding one – for the right people, none of which were the ones who bought the houses, bought the mortgage bundles, owned the banks that are now gasping for credit… or, for that matter, the rest of the United States of America.

Looks like we’re finally going to start talking about it – and, really? Why are we funding such a rabidly partisan group as ACORN, anyway? And why do people like Barney Frank seem so interested in declaring the questions like this to be racist?

Well, OK, I already know that the answer to that last one is “he’s projecting.” Still, they’re usually more subtle than that.


Category: , ,

RSS feed

20 Comments Leave a comment

YAY JOHN

PaRep (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 5:30PM EST (link)

But what the HECK took you so long to do this??

 

Now we all have to pressure our Reps. to Stop the funding to ACORN or you with vote them out of office!

DavidS1787 (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 5:35PM EST (link)

Correction: should say will vote instead of you with

DavidS1787 (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 5:43PM EST (link)
 

About time. Will McCain wise up too?

gensec (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 5:46PM EST (link)

It’s great that Boehner is raising the issue. Unfortunately that will be of little consequence if McCain doesn’t regularly hammer the point home. Given the repeated incompetence as a politician shown by McCain, I don’t know how likely it is. I hope Palin and his campaign staff browbeat him if necessary.

McCain should forcefully promise not one more dime of taxpayers’ money will go into the ACORN slush fund if he’s elected President, and challenge Obama to make the same pledge. When Obama predictably refuses to promise a cutoff of subsidies to ACORN, then McCain can in every speech go through the litany of ACORN corruption, and with each count note that’s the kind of corruption Obama is committed to subsidizing with taxpayers’ money.

 

ACORN web page is freezing up.

Uma Richie (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 6:29PM EST (link)

I am working on an ACORN-related diary and was able to get to their site this afternoon. Now, it is appears that their servers may be overloaded a la RS during the RNC.

Do I dare hope that negative publicity about the organization is gaining traction?

 

It is & also the Humans that work there are having

PaRep (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 6:33PM EST (link)

a part of the anatomy freezing up, It’s called “The Sphincter factor”

 

ACORN is the DNC brownshirts

hunter (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 7:27PM EST (link)

Much more subtle and (so far) less violent, but with the same use:
a private army under the control of the DNC to put the DNC in power.
Where in the heck was Boehner when we actually had poewr to do something about this festering corruption?
Now one of their generals stands ready to take the whole thing. And then how likely is it to have ACORN rooted out?
Slim? Or none?
If we do not pull this out, we will have been out manuvered by a group that was literally willing to trigger a worldwide depression to gain power. Do you think for a second the DNC will get rid of ACORN?
They will fund them with billions$. This is reparations, my friend.

hunter

 

Great timing...

Siberian Thursday, October 9th at 7:37PM EST (link)

Spend years in the majority party.

Do nothing about ACORN.

Get minority status where you are powerless to do anything and then before an election when we’re likely to be reduced to even more minority status, now it’s time to take a stand?

sigh

True

Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 8:56PM EST (link)

And I bet McCain would be one of those Republicans who thinks he would be being open and bi-partisan by embracing the community service group ACORN. At least prior to this election smacking him into reality.

Let's hope it did smack some reality into him

gensec (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 9:05PM EST (link)

And you’re so right about Republicans in the majority perpetuating this corruption. Lenin talked about selling them the rope, but congressional Republicans give them the rope along with some walking around money.

5 X 5

hunter (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 10:03PM EST (link)

We will get back in power, and we will never forget this lesson.

hunter

 
 
 
 

He's 5 years too late.

kingfish Thursday, October 9th at 10:13PM EST (link)

The Republicans could have defunded ACORN and other left wing groups when they controlled all branches of government. Yet another example of Bush caving to the opposition. Same Bush that sees conservatives such as Toomey as the enemy more than he does liberals. Remember, Rove and Bush wanted weak Republicans like Frist leading Congress so they didn’t have to worry about any ideological competition in their own party a la Reagan and Ford or Newt and Bush the Elder. But I digress. The Rovian Republicans were never serious for all of their blather about truly fighting for conservative principles and fighting an opposition that sees Republicans as evil and deserving of any dirty trick it can think of.

The Left wing plays to win, the right wing just plays.

 

Let's be even more sure than that

Finrod (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 11:32PM EST (link)

And boiling water poured on the roots, no doubt.

I recommend pouring boiling poison oil on the roots. You just can’t be too sure about these kinds of things.

Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?

 

CONSERVATIVE COLUMNISTS AND BLOGGERS COMMITTING BLUNDER WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ACORN

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 11:51PM EST (link)

It’s always the practice of Conservative bloggers and columnists to focus on ONE TOPIC without weaving the REAL STORIES.

Each topic is seen by the people as nothing but a “HIT JOB” because you are not helping the people to see and understand the REAL STORY of Barack Obama.

One good example is the issue of ACORN’s vote frauds. You seem to forget, that some time ago, you were talking about Community Organizing stint of Obama. You have been so “implicit” to emphasize the link:

ACORN = Obamessiah As Community Organizer

All that Obama has to do is just denying the accusation about his tie with ACORN (which is a lie) and the people will just accept his explanation because they see this as INSIGNIFICANT (to CNN, a disruption).

Why? Because each attach is just a dot, and if you don’t link all the dots, Americans will never see the bigger picture… THE REAL STORY why Obama is NOT FIT as POTUS.

Another is the New Party. New Party’s main objective is to implement FUSION STRATEGY of voting strategy to promote third parties such as Communist Party of USA, Democratic Socialists of America, Working Families Party, and even AFL-CIO. These third parties want to advance their local politics and their own local candidates, although at national level, they have Barack Obama as their ONLY CANDIDATE. Funny, the Fusion Strategy has been so successful and these socialist third parties have already invaded their host…the Democratic Party. Howard Dean has even made banquet in DC to honor Socialiste International.

So where is the link with New Party? Actually, New Party is ACTUALLY VERY RELEVANT AND RELATED to ACORN. ACORN is the one implementing the FUSION strategy being promoted by the New Party. Fusion Strategy was conceived by Debs and Mike Harrington in the 60s to promote communism and socialism.

Another is Ayers. Ayers is being described ONLY AS “Terrorist Friend and Associate” of Obama. Again, he will deny everything and people will just accept the truth Because they find Ayers as “irrelevant”. Absent the relevance of Ayers in the overall story of Obama, no one will actually give much weight to the issue. But Ayers is a Communist, not just a terrorist. Ayers has much connection with Chicago Democratic Socialist of America… a major supporter of Obama’s New Party.

LINKING ACORN, NEW PARTY AND OBAMA AS COMMUNITY ORGANIZER WILL UNMASK THE REAL STORY ABOUT OBAMA… the Manchurian Candidates of the Socialists/Communists/Progressives.

Only one article so far has attempted to link the DOTS, and that is AT’s James Lewis.

We have been hiding our true understanding of Obama and the Dems by using the term “Far Left” instead of socialists and communists here in America because we are afraid to be called “McCarthyists”. When we stopped using the words, we have allowed these ideologies to grow in the mainstream disguised as affirmative action and justice.

Start linking the dots… or it will be too late!

Good, but

hunter (Diary) Friday, October 10th at 5:08AM EST (link)

As I link the dots, I see the theft and destruction of about a $trillion dollars by direct action of Obama and his backers.
I want my money back.
That is a picture that people can understand.

hunter

When you're right, you're right!!!!

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, October 10th at 5:24AM EST (link)

Well, I cannot explain how you can get your money back.

Because I, myself also don’t know how to get my money back.

I think the first step to recover our money and our children’s future is to UNELECT OBAMA!!!!

Rod_Patrick, I understand your point...

Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, October 10th at 5:32AM EST (link)

…but there’s a difference between scattershot-reporting, and groundwork-laying. :)

Boss Moe

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, October 10th at 7:46AM EST (link)

First, sorry if I have some misgivings on some diaries that only focused on one or few items.

Second, thanks for the explanation between scatter-plotting and groundwork laying. Okey, maybe “scattering-plotting” is too unfair for some of our comrades. I stand correcting.

Lastly, I just hope that this groundwork laying shall be done soonest because we are running out of time.

PS: Don’t get me wrong. I really love your articles, Moe.

Sorry for the errors. "Scatter-plotting" and "stand corrected". Stupid me. LOL!

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, October 10th at 8:01AM EST (link)

What can I do? My fingers don’t coordinate very well with my thoughts.

Add another state to the Rap sheet for ACORN

PaRep (Diary) Friday, October 10th at 8:51AM EST (link)