Comments on: Leno Shows ACORN’s Popularity While House Votes To Defund

By: Bertha Speaks (And Shouldn’t); And Funding Ban Back : NO QUARTER

Bertha Speaks (And Shouldn’t); And Funding Ban Back : NO QUARTER — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:05:20 +0000

[...] it was because of this speech that ACORN’s funds are once again on hold, as this article spells out: Appeals Court Temporarily Reinstates ACORN [...]

By: Senneth

Senneth — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:49:14 +0000

I agree Diana. Sanctimonious and self-righteous, but where were these Republicans when Dubya was “driving the truck down the taxpayer road?” A pox on both the Parties. Never Again!

By: I'm a Linda too

I'm a Linda too — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:01:31 +0000

Wow, call me surprised that Leno did that.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:10:09 +0000

Absolutely, Amy! It is/was a wicked symmetry we could have all done without.

By: Typewriterstreaming

Typewriterstreaming — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:07:51 +0000

Nadler is a disgrace.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:56:05 +0000

I agree, Just Me. Both parties are equally toxic. This gameplaying, all shock and horror of the party-out-of-power has been going on for decades. And big losers? The public, each and every time.

I certainly won’t cry at ACORN’s demise. And I’m glad the Republicans have rediscovered their fiscal hearts. But where the hell were they for the first six years of the Bush Administration??? Spending like drunken sailors just like their Democratic buddies.

They’ve all had their fingers in the cookie-jar.

The Swift Boat smear was dispicable. Only to be matched by Dem supporters regarding McCain’s military experience, ie. he was a war criminal, how can you call the man a hero when he was caught by the enemy, yada, yada, yada???

Sickening. Both sides!

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:49:58 +0000

i agree

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:29:13 +0000

I agree – I wish they had cared abt the Voter Fraud issue, too, and not blown it off as just sour grapes. ACORN being under investigation in a number of states FOR voter fraud never seemed to get through to them. Just easier to go after anyone who didn’t bow down to The One.

There are LOTS of issues that need to be addressed, and lots of ways our money is spent, like now owning 61% of GM, but keeping $8.5 BILLION of our dollars from going to this organization is no small thing.

There IS the issue of how do we help those people who need help – but using this corrupt organization is not the way.

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:23:44 +0000

Yes, Tek, I did – and the Faith Based Initiatives was an outrage, and I say that as a minister. I am a FIRM believer in the separation between Church and State. And I am even more outraged that Obama decided to EXPAND it, something he even acknowledged BEFORE the election. I have written a TON abt that.

I could not agree more that things got much worse under Bush. You’ve been around for a while so surely you must know that abt me by now. Lifelong Dem until 5/31/08. (Is Obama’s expansion of the Faith Based Initiatives also a payoff to his “Get Out the Vote”? I’m gonna guess just maybe…)

Thanks for the concern.

Folks, I believe we have a couple of impostors her of regular posters. The combative “Just Me” is NOT the same as the “Just Me” who usually comments here. Just beware. The regular one is much more tempered in tone, and not so argumentative. I urge you to not get into it with the trolls…

By: avwrobel

avwrobel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:44:04 +0000

It is comical reading Cantor: “…a victory for the rule of law and taxpayers…” Please. As a former Democrat and now left-leaning Independent it does sadden me to see ACORN becoming drunk with power esp when their mission is to help the poor. The only way out and forward is for Obama to leave office. Did you see he called Kanye West “..a jackass” Unbelievable! Its like he’s trying to push his approval ratings down into Bush territory.

By: helenk

helenk — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:39:23 +0000

Where in the constitution does it say that tax money has to go to any organization that is not government?
By his reasoning the maifia should have been allowed to participate in all government building projects.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

By: helenk

helenk — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:32:17 +0000

http://countusout.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/andrew-breitbart-cnn-despicable-acorn-lies-and-more-tapes-to-come/

Get more popcorn. It will be needed.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

By: tzada

tzada — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:50:31 +0000

Nadler: Republican ACORN Amendment is Flatly Unconstitutional and Threatens any Organization Disliked by Congress

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, denounced a Republican Amendment adopted by the House of Representatives to deny all federal funds to ACORN as blatantly unconstitutional and a threat to unpopular organizations everywhere. The Republican initiative, entitled the Defund ACORN Act, singles out a specific organization by name for exclusion from participating in any federal program, in direct violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against Bills of Attainder.

“Today’s Republican Amendment is in blatant violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against Bills of Attainder,” said Nadler. “Congress must not be in the business of punishing individual organizations or people without trial, and that’s what this Amendment does. Whatever one may think of an organization, the Constitution’s clear ban on Bills of Attainder is there for the protection of all of our liberties.”

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny08_nadler/Acorn091709.html

By: trixta

trixta — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:46:43 +0000

Wasn’t the smuggler’s faced blurred out on TV? I don’t recall seeing his actual face.

By: trixta

trixta — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:43:30 +0000

All this corruption is not a partisan issue.

Right again, Tek!