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Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Why Democrats think it’s ok to punish ACORN now
Michelle Malkin liveblogged the Senate vote earlier this evening on the issue of funding ACORN in the current transportation and appropriations bill. Tonight, they voted 83-7 to not include funding for ACORN in those bills, which was a welcome sight to see, considering their routine funding and praising of them during the Bush administration in spite of the repeated instances of corruption and wrongdoing that were widespread across the country.
It took three separate incidents, reported within a two or three week timeframe, and an amendment brought to the floor by a Republican Senator, to finally get the Dems to wake up.
Or have they?
If this had happened under a Republican President with no ties to ACORN, would they have taken this stand? My belief is that they would not have – their last 8 years of forcing taxpayers to fund the corruptocracy at ACORN prove that. The reason they’re starting to throw ACORN under the bus now is because it’s an embarassment to both their party and President Obama.
It’s not unsimilar to what then-candidate Obama did once Rev. Wright insulted him personally: He threw him under the bus and left TUCC. Years of Jeremiah Wright’s race-baiting commentary and America-hating weren’t enough to make him want to leave the church, but Wright calling Obama out on how he was being “political” about distancing himself from his “former” pastor was just too much. In this case, now the spotlight is on our Democrat President and his majority and the recent ACORN stories are a “distraction” from the “big picture.”
Not only that, but ACORN did their jobs in helping President Obama get elected last year. So they’re not as valuable to the success of the Dem party now this year as they were a year ago. Mission accomplished, or something like that.
Bbbbbut, there’s always next year to consider.
So, while I’m happy to see this rare moment of agreement between Senate Dems and Republicans, I’m not convinced that the Dems have had any real moment of clarity. They just want to get what they hope will be a temporary distraction in the form of ACORN mischief and illegal activity off the front pages and out of their hair. That way, when next year rolls around and – assuming ACORN quiets down long enough – they can get back to Business As Usual.
And the beat goes on.
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ST, I’m not sure more than one or two on either side of the aisle had a “moment of (moral) clarity”. This, although on the surface is about moral clarity, I’m sure is being used by Republican “leadership” as outrageously and bodaciously as any issue decried by the donks, and as soon as it’s lost its feet in our conservative circles will be forgotten by that same “leadership”.
Remember, the place is a sewage swamp that hates anything close to resembling personal morality or responsible ethics. I can’t believe all the Republicans all of a sudden “saw the light” and are willing to apply it to themselves and their Republican colleagues evenly and temperately.
Clarity, schmarity. If ACORN goes down for any reason, that’s a good result. I’ll take it.
Not to worry…ACORN got 5 BILLION from the TARP money last fall…
If this had happened under a Republican President with no ties to ACORN, would they have taken this stand?
The key here is “ties to ACORN.” If this could have embarrassed a Republican, they’d be all over it like white on rice. Their problem is that Obama and ACORN are joined at the hip, they go way back to his days as a community organizer and have continued to this day. This story will not go away, however much they try to bury it. In fact, the more they try, the more exposed it will become. Perhaps the day will come when Dems fear Obama himself has become an albatross around their necks – then we’ll see some frenzied scuttling.
Cockroaches in the light and rats abandoning a sinking ship will have nothing on them. Obama will find there’s a bus bigger than the one he throws everyone else under.
This is typical. Throughout history ruling elites have cast aside their most ardent and radical supporters once they achieve power. It’s always what Lenin so well called “useful idiots” who find themselves as roadkill. So, nope, I don’t think that any great oaks will spring forth from any little acorns.
YOU NAILED IT! Referring to them as elites is polite; I call them Marxist. Go Leslie.
Ya know, everyone’s so excited ACORN got whupped by the big, bad Congress, but has anyone figured out yet that it’s only going to mean a couple of hundred extra contracts to have the separate organizations that make up ACORN do the exact same thing?
IOW, you’ll see all the same oaknuts running around, still pimpin’ for the prez, still signing up dead folks, homeless and criminal aliens, and changing the congressional districts almost at will.
ACORN is getting money from the teacher’s union, too. So if the federal money dries up, they have another source to enable the survival of their corrupt organization. I think they should be called out on that, too.