House GOP leader asks Bush to cut off ACORN funds

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader John Boehner on Wednesday urged President Bush to block all federal funds to a grass-roots community group that has been accused of voter registration fraud.

"It is evident that ACORN is incapable of using federal funds in a manner that is consistent with the law," Boehner, R-Ohio, wrote Bush, saying that funds should be blocked until all federal investigations into the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now are completed.

ACORN, a group that has led liberal causes since it was formed in 1970, this year hired more than 13,000 part-time workers to sign up voters in minority and poor neighborhoods in 21 states. Some of the 1.3 million registration cards submitted to local election officials, using the names of cartoon characters or pro football players, were obviously phony, spurring GOP charges of widespread misconduct.

ACORN has said it was its own quality-control workers who first noticed problem registration cards, flagged them and submitted them to local election officials in every state that is now investigating them.



Read more: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i0S0UhNW8kVPuYQ2AdeMzmY8qGRgD93VQ35G0

[snappyturtle]

1. When will Boehner and the like understand voter registration" fraud"?

Poor ACORN...........another endangered species under attack.

[TheEuclideanOne]

13. Oh, they understand it alright. They are just doing their darndest

to give the impression to their simp followers that it is Voter fraud. My question is when will the media cover it.

[snappyturtle]

14. Well, Robert Kennedy, Jr. tried to explain the situation on Morning Joe

this morning and he was effectively blown off. I felt sorry for him as he had to talk a mile a minute to over ride the rude chatter. Mika said something to the effect while Robert was speaking,,,"...if you can believe that!.... rude, rude, rude.

[TheEuclideanOne]

25. Thanks for mentioning this. I was shocked at their response. Mika, for

example, started saying something like "So, you mean there is nothing wrong going on here?" and the finance guy tried to make some really idiotic comparison to the economic melthdown. Rober Kennedy Jr explained it so clearly and they completely blew him off as you pointed out. Can these guys not even know the facts about this case? How can that be? It is frightening if you ask me. The reality is that people in the MSM should be calling out McCain on making such an absurd accusation in the last debate (and the ACORN fraud in general), but I am only seeing the MSM buying into this absurdity.

[snappyturtle]

32. Interesting point---I don't know if they know the truth or not. It's not good

either way. On one hand they truly may not know, then, why not? On the other hand they may know and are in the bag for the repukes. The second explanation is my guess. It IS frightening. Now if ACORN loses federal funding, what will happen to them? I guess teevee pundits don't care about other people and their jobs or the service they provide to the country.

[ronnie624]

33. They know the truth.

All that is required is to be abreast of current events. That isn't too much to expect from a 'journalist'. All of the facts are readily available with simple research on the internet. But 'journalists' do not control the content of 'news' programing. 'The media', in reality, serve the interests of power, not people. All mainstream media outlets are owned by large corporations, THE primary constituency of all Republicans and most Democrats, and their propaganda will logically reflect that fact. More voters would quickly translate into legislation and policies that are less friendly to corporations, and more oriented to benefiting people, and the owners of our government will not allow that. There is really no mystery or surprise in the fact that the mouthpieces for corporate power would report on this issue from a bias that favors the corporate establishment.

[TheEuclideanOne]

34. ACORN will most likely lose funding. Imagine if Bush

removes funding from ACORN, how it will help validate this farce. I can imagine people concluding that they would have to be guilty, otherwise they not be under constant investigation and would not have lost their funding. BTW, below is the URL for that video:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27292352#27319542">Disgusting video from Morning Joe

[snappyturtle]

38. Hey thanks for the link! nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Did he cry?

[Doodler71]

3. A simple case of word confusion

"It is evident that ACORN is incapable of using federal funds in a manner that is consistent with the law," Boehner, R-Ohio,

Surely he must be mistaking ACORN for the GOP.

[DBoon]

4. so he can move the money to a faith based group?

when he said "inconsistent with the law" I think he meant "inconsistent with GOP goals"

[BayjanDem]

5. The mans name is BOEHNER

So we shouldn't be surprised when he acts like a dickhead.

[byronius]

6. Time after time after time.

The GOP moves only in coordinated fashion to seize and hold power, period, nothing else to it, EVER.

Which speaks well for ACORN.

Ninety Days From Today.

[LynnTheDem]

7. There they go again with their fake voter-scandals.

Sigh.

[LynnTheDem]

8. Hey MORANS...Acorn is REQUIRED BY LAW to submit EVERY FORM

...EVERY FORM...even if the form says "Mickey Mouse".

Acorn is REQUIRED BY LAW to submit EVERY FORM.

That really isn't rocket surgery, so maybe some republicans will manage to understand the fact.

[weber49]

9. Alleged ACORN "fraud"

Maybe the Republicans can explain why there are not any arrests of ACORN workers but a Republican Registration company president has been arrest.

See the article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-fraud20-2008oct20,0,4020813.story

[IsItJustMe]

10. I don't believe Bush has the power to do that. He does not have a line item veto and this was a

part of a much larger bill. When will Republicans get a clue and learn how our gov't works.

[David__77]

11. LOL! I'd love Bush to step forward at this point!

It would be wonderful!

[creeksneakers2]

12. I don't think any federal money is going to ACORN's

voter registration drive. The $31 million that Boehner listed all goes to ACORN outfits that deal with low income housing. Most of that is for Fair Housing offices that offer advice. The grants come from HUD. Nothing is illegal about any of it.

PDF
http://republicanleader.house.gov/UploadedFiles/101608acornchart.pdf

[Piewhacket]

15. But... cutting funds would be illegal.... perhaps criminal.

John Boehner eh? Sounds like serious scumduggery.

Can I argue that someone needs to arrest whackjob Boehner and
cut off his nuts when he objects?

Naturally if its all a mistake we can give him back his nuts.
Later.

Not advocating, just asking whether it might help stop Boehner from
soliciting a crime.

[Jersey Ginny]

16. The economy is in the shitter and their foaming about AAAAAACCCCCOOOOORRRNNNN!

Out-of-touch idiots.

[Laelth]

17. He knows ACORN was legally required to submit those forms, even the bogus ones.

It's a very serious matter to accuse ACORN of a crime when he knows they acted properly and legally.

It's called "bearing false witness."

What slime these Republics are!

-Laelth

[vagabund]

18. ACORN has never been even charged with anything

serial exaggerators.

[tledford]

19. Boner is a sack of shit. eom

[cui bono]

20. Maybe if we cut off his acorns he'll stop being such a Boehner.

[Piewhacket]

23. Bastard! I that's the zinger I was trying to find (but failed). Bravo.

:toast:

[cui bono]

24. Why thank you.

Now nominate me for a Duzy. I feel left out never having won one. ;)

[Piewhacket]

37. A DUzy? LOL. I'll vote for that. So how do I get me one of them?

[struggle4progress]

21. Acorn Destroys World Financial System! Giant Squid Devours San Francisco!

Inside: The Alien's 2008 Endorsements

[stillcool]

22. what's going on with the FBI investiation..

into ACORN that was illegally leaked? And why hasn't the Justice Department answered the Obama Campaign Counsel requesting that the investigation into the Attorney General Firing Scandal be expanded to include the witch hunt the GOP is undertaking against ACORN?

[keroro gunsou]

26. House GOP leader asks Bush to cut off ACORN funds

Source: Associated Press, by way of Yahoo

WASHINGTON – House Republican leader John Boehner on Wednesday urged President Bush to block all federal funds to a grass-roots community group that has been accused of voter registration fraud.

"It is evident that ACORN is incapable of using federal funds in a manner that is consistent with the law," Boehner, R-Ohio, wrote Bush, saying that funds should be blocked until all federal investigations into the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now are completed.

ACORN, a group that has led liberal causes since it was formed in 1970, this year hired more than 13,000 part-time workers to sign up voters in minority and poor neighborhoods in 21 states. Some of the 1.3 million registration cards submitted to local election officials, using the names of cartoon characters or pro football players, were obviously phony, spurring GOP charges of widespread misconduct.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081023/ap_on_el_pr/gop_acorn

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[spag68]

27. Boner

Why is it that these rethugs seem to think that access to the justice dept. is for them, but not the Dems? Sorry, I didn't realize what is obvious. It's been that way for 20 of the last 28 years.

[grannylib]

28. What bullshit. They have fully complied with the law. They have turned in all

registrations as REQUIRED by law, and have scrutinized and flagged those that are suspicious.
Just another rePigliCon suppression tactic.

[bulloney]

29. It's another example of Boner running half-cocked into an issue he knows little about.

Time for another drink, Johnny?

Maybe it's also time to go fuck another lobbyist and have a smoke afterward?

Geez that guy's off-the-charts stupid!

[keroro gunsou]

35. for a guy with a name that's pronounced

boner, he's obviously a little... flaccid, where the truth is concerned.

[DinahMoeHum]

30. Methinks Bonehead is gonna be a mighty lonely 'Puke

come the next Congress.

:evilgrin:

[VWolf]

31. Hey John: Suck it! n/t

[Peace Patriot]

36. The problem with this is not that he's totally wrong...

The problem is that the Associated Pukes report it as a serious accusation. And the other problem, of course, is that such a sleazy, no-good, stupid-making liar could sit in the U.S. Congress and be one of its leaders.

Both problems are intimately related to the direct control over our election results now exercised by rightwing corpos--mostly Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia--using 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code throughout our election system, with virtually no audit/recount controls.

Guaranteed power tends to produce degenerate offspring--as monarchical systems of governments have shown. Both the Associated Pukes--an arrogant 'news' monopoly that controls the 'news' everywhere, even on Air America, and that promotes the most ignorant, gospel-spewing, barely literate bunch of toady reporters in the world--and Mr. Bonehead and his fellow Puke liars and evildoers--are phenomena that just don't last long in a healthy democracy. In a healthy democracy, they sink to the bottom. They are found out. Their inferior goods are exposed. But our democracy is sick with Corpo/Fascist 'news' monopolies and 'TRADE SECRET' vote counting. A monopoly means you DON'T HAVE TO DO A GOOD JOB. You can force people to buy your shit. Thus, why should you bother to create a good product?

I don't think Bonehead's motives matter much. I think the fact that he has a platform to stand on--a powerful position in Congress, and toady reporters to take him seriously--is what matters. But I will say this--his goal, as with so much of the Corpo/Fascist tripe we are subjected to, is to draw attention away from the FAILED Puke voter registration (a failure that highlights their disgrace with the American people, and hurts their donations), and to tie Obama's hands, and Congress' hands, by a steady stream of flak in the Corpo/Fascist media, as to who gets federal funding. By demonizing ACORN and groups like ACORN, who are doing great work in poor communities, they are creating a stupid narrative that makes such work "controversial." It should not be controversial. It's what the government should be doing--helping the poor to participate as citizens--whether helping them to register to vote, or advising them on low-cost housing. The poor are greatly disadvantaged in all spheres. So if we believe in equal opportunity--that is, if we are a democracy--we will attempt to "level the playing field" with projects like ACORN's.

The truth doesn't matter, in this stupid narrative. The facts don't matter. And the views of the citizens and voters don't matter. In this 'Alice in Wonderland' created by the inherited, monarchical power of money (corporate monopolies that live forever) and non-transparent, corporate-controlled vote counting, it's the NARRATIVE that matters--the ILLUSION of democracy. Really, Boner might as well be the Red Queen screaming "Off with their heads!" to the Playing Cards that didn't paint the white roses red--and everybody but Alice cowers in fear and takes out their notepads and writes about how the white roses were always supposed to be red and it is a failure of family values that they aren't, and yes, everybody should paint the white roses red, in honor of the Red Queen and the Great Prick in the Sky.

It's nuts! And the reasons why it's nuts are real obvious to me: corporate 'news' monopolies and corporate vote counting with SECRET code.