Michele Bachmann's ACORN obsession

[marmar]

:freak:



from the MSP Star-Trib:



Bachmann plan dropped after a testy debate
She wanted to block mortgage counseling funds to ACORN, but her proposal had a much broader reach.

By KEVIN DIAZ, Star Tribune

Last update: May 7, 2009 - 8:10 PM


WASHINGTON - To Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., it would have been a "layer of protection for taxpayers."

To Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., it was "a mistake" that he "had not read carefully."

Thursday's showdown came over Bachmann's proposal to restrict mortgage counseling funds for ACORN, a community group that was at the center of Republican allegations of voter-registration fraud in the 2008 presidential election.

That the proposal even made it to the floor of the Democratic-controlled House was an embarrassment that Frank had to admit. "I am asking for your help in correcting a mistake that I made," he said in a letter to fellow Democrats on Tuesday. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/44537462.html?page=1&c=y

[Doremus]

1. All repukes are obsessed with ACORN because Faux tells them to be.

There was a mouth breather in the shop today who asked me if I knew that $100 of the sale of every house in the county goes to ACORN.

I asked where he had heard such rubbish. "WTAM is a very good radio station." OMFG.

[DearAbby]

2. Red meat for the base

frenzy, must feed them red meat...Toss the pudgy pod people.. an Acorn here...and a Fascist-dash-Socialist there...Abortion is murder over here...they are coming for Guns over there...FRENZY Frenzy frenzy ...have to feed those pudgy pod people called "the base"

[Saboburns]

3. At least ACORN is giving George Soros a break

Along with Rev Wright, and Bill Ayers.

Sad what passes for truth in the mind of the WingNut.

[Muttocracy]

4. I was listening to something else on C-Span in the background and then that floor debate was on

and suddenly it was crazy lady, and she quickly went from the topic at hand to ACORN!!!!!1111 Frank gave her some good smackdown but I couldn't stand to listen for long.

[keroro gunsou]

5. because

it's the only way she'll get any nuts?

[anonymous171]

6. The GOP doesn't like the idea of poor people voting. nt