Pray for the Inspector Generals probing ACORN
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I said last week that the ACORN funding cut-offs on the Hill were just the beginning.
Good news: The ball is rolling.
DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine has launched an internal probe.
I covered Fine’s extensive work on immigration enforcement lapses during the Clinton and Bush years. He is meticulous, thorough, and fair. Fine’s bio is here.
In addition, Republicans have called on IGs throughout the government to investigate:
WASHINGTON. D.C. – Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs Susan Collins (R-Maine) and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) have sent letters to the Inspectors General (IG) for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Department of the Treasury, the Elections Assistance Commission, the Department of Labor and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) calling on them to “review grants, contracts, entitlements and other forms of assistance to ACORN and its affiliates.”
“As long as taxpayers are subsidizing ACORN and its affiliates, we need to use every measure possible to ensure that those dollars are being spent and managed appropriately,” Issa said. “The way in which ACORN
and its affiliates have structured their organization raises significant questions regarding their intent and use of federal dollars. Clearly just taking them at their word is not sufficient enough oversight.”“At a time when hard-working American families are making tough financial sacrifices, I am appalled by recent reports involving the apparent rampant misuse of taxpayer dollars by ACORN, a community
organization umbrella group,” Sen. Collins said. “During the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, congressional oversight into how the public’s money is spent has never been more important. That is why I am joining Rep. Issa in this urgent request that Inspectors General launch an official investigation. We are asking investigators to examine federal grants, contracts and assistance
awarded to ACORN and its affiliates, to review whether ACORN and its affiliates have complied with our tax laws, and to determine whether an appropriate level of federal oversight was in place to begin with.”Collins and Issa also ask that the IG’s to “determine whether appropriate oversight mechanisms” are in place to ensure funds distributed to ACORN and its affiliates were spent in a manner consistent with the criteria for which they applied for funding. If the reviews uncover any evidence that ACORN and its affiliates misused funds, Issa and Collins have asked the IG’s to “refer such evidence to the Commission’s Suspension and Debarment Officials for a determination of whether or not ACORN and its affiliates need to be placed on the federal government’s Excluded Parties List.”
Keep these IGs in your prayers. Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama.
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I’ll repeat the three must-investigate items I posted this weekend:
Now that the White House supports an investigation, Congress should make sure to investigate:
1) How Team Obama hid its $800,000 campaign payment to ACORN through front group “Citizen Services, Inc.”;
2) How Team Obama shared donor lists with the president’s old employer, ACORN affiliate Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, which is prohibited from engaging in political activity (Mr. President, meet Anita MonCrief);
3) And how Project Vote and hundreds of myriad entities intermingled non-profit, tax-exempt funding with the national ACORN flagship’s political operations — a buried story Obama would know about if he read NYTimes reporter Stephanie Strom’s report last October before she was muzzled as Election Day drew near.
Bring it on.
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Fun fact: The ACORN sycophants in Maryland state government are jumping on the bandwagon…O’Malley says MD Attorney General to investigate ACORN .
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Bring it on indeed.
If we actually get some in-depth investigations, this should be fun.
Should be wrapping it up in time for next years mid term elections. Or once they start digging, it may take a couple of years to dig it all out.
Or they’ll be muzzled by the administration and “retired” any time they get close to something embarrassing to the White House.
the guy needs to keep a good attorney on retainer…
Errah O’Malley is asking Doug Gansler (MD SAG) to do this??!! Old Dougy couldn’t even indict a ham sandwich. Mohammed and Malvo laugh at this guy. Acorn will still be running free in MD just like Casa Duh MD and others on the taxpayer dole. Next charade.
Americans need to stand up to this corruption. Stand firm and tall!
RWR
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As I talk to God every night, I ask Him to keep all who are trying to keep our Repbulic safe by giving American’s the news what this bho, team, and dc bunch is up to. It is in His Will as to what will happen. All who have been giving American’s news, that means you MM are in harm. This new ‘team’ will do whatever it takes to do their thing.
I WILL NOT SUBMIT and I pray American’s won’t either!
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“Hey, Inspector General. Nice family you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to them…”
Its about time. But, I have to ask, wh are the republicans just now asking for these investigations? Have they not known for sometime that things were not on the up and up with acorn?
the rinos were too busy playing politically correct while wooing the latino vote to notice widespread massive corruption like illegal aliens everywhere destroying our economy and acorn stealing our elections.
Did they laugh before during or after they were convicted of 6 counts of murder in MD, each carrying life without parole?
Don’t get to excited . . . the dictator won’t let anybody go to far investigating his political goon squad.
I am so disgusted with the state of things today. The preident of the US is a confirmed LIAR and a union thug-organizer using a different name — “community organizer.” Semantics.
Since when did the POTUS inflict himself on other countries (Honduras) trying to goad them into allowing illegal actions by their (now former) president? And in accordance with similar wishes by commies like Hugo Chavez et al?
And also turn his back on Israel (our ally) for seemingly petty reasons?
The man who can’t allow himself to be or appear wrong at all costs has yet to be or appear right in the first place.
We certainly are screwed…
Don’t forget our own Inspector General of the United States is far more concerned with going after the CIA – hoping something rattles loose that will directly tie Pres. Bush and V.P. Cheney to war crimes than any of these more recent revelations.
Fire up the bus, Obama is already distancing himself from ACORN. IMO it’s likely he has insulated himself well enough from the actual criminal players to claim deniability and come out looking clean. Holder won’t let any investigation get too close.
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The first thing anyone should do if threatened this way is to go to every single media outlet there is, including TV, radio, internet, newspapers and tell them about the threats and who is making them. Also tell the FBI and the CIA. I would think that would deter anyone from actually acting on those threats.
Dear Lord, please guide Mr. Fine in his search for truth and integrity, and please help him to inflict Your justice upon any wickedness demostrated by this administration. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
Do you remember all those unvetted campaign donations via credit cards (the removed safeguards the McCain campaign ignored?)
I am wondering if ACORN funneled taxpayer money into Obama’s coffers using THAT system? I also wonder, if done, was it done in exchange for; 1) having seats at the table, 2) czar appointments, 3) a hand in writing stimulus bills? This could insure that they could keep taxpayer dollars streaming in to them and their affiliates, including SEIU, for years.
I know this is possible, but is it plausible?
Please give continuing reports on the Maryland AG’s investigation progress. Hold his feet (and, perhaps, other sensitive body parts) to the fire, encouraging him to give this even higher priority than his onging investigations of Maryland political corruption!
the country needs to rid itself of that disgusting pestilence known as acorn. seiu should be next and that punk stern should be in the IG’s cross hairs.
Won’t matter. When the IG is done, Holder will nix it in the bud.
Excuse me, did the Leprechaun just say “Glenn Beck and I” initiated the ACORN story??? Wait, what??
The Leprechaun is afraid of Beck’s rising popularity.
Chap, if they aren’t worm food they’re laughing. They absolutely are guilty of cold-blooded, premeditated murder of all those innocent lives. They deserve to meet allah and I wouldn’t flinch at making that meeting happen.
You can bleed your liberal heart all you want but these murdering bastards should be dead.
Considering how the roof is falling in on ACORN, I’m praying for the Inspectors-Generals’ SAFETY, not their jobs.
Yes, he is taking credit for breaking ACORN, along with Beck. Beck did the investigating and putting all the pieces together. O’Reilly gave Beck time on his top-rated show. So, that makes O’Reilly the one who should get credit for breaking ACORN. See?? /sarc. off And yes, I believe there is jealousy involved here. O’Reilly is afraid Beck will take over the prime time slot. It is very possible.
My area of interest is the interaction via intermediaries between ACORN and the White House and the other parts of the Excutive Branch.
If you dig, I’ll bet my house you will find the coorperation.
MM has said it repeatedly. ACORN IS OBAMA AND OBAMA IS ACORN.
Having it done before the mid-terms would be surprising. I suspect any reports would be held until after….or the ‘Crats will scream.
On the plus side, with multiple IG’s investigating, one would hope they would be concerned with what other IG’s might find and investigate honestly and thoroughly.
I wonder though if any hint of criminality might be grabbed by Holder, yanked away from the IG and sat on with a sham JD investigation.
Hard for them to grow a spine without national media coverage of any wrong-doing. Doing so prior to the latest news coming out would mean any number of thugs showing up at your office/home, with no support from the party.
Please also pray for two other people who are probing where Obama doesn’t want them to probe…
We don’t need investigators to determine if ACORN is guilty of a whole host of criminal activities. That’s already been proved by 2 20-somethings posing as a pimp and a prostitutue. ACORN and its associated organizations and the people steering $ to them are guilty as hell from stem to stern. Everybody with a conscience and an IQ above room temperature knows it.
What we need the investigations for is to enact suitable punishment for every crapweasel involved.
Perhaps the Republicans, Presidents and Attorney Generals too, were all in the underground and did not know this was going on.We could call them “Good Republicans”. All too many of them were thinking “our turn” and lived large at the public trough. So we got Bridges to No Where, record deficits (pre Obama)and the fools wonder why so many people sat on their votes.
Tis a house cleaning of monumental proportions we need. If were are ever going to break this 50/50 spit in the electorate we need some ADULT leadership in the Party. They have some ‘splaning to do.
If not, freedom is dead. And THAT will affect even those at the top of the food chain.
It boggles the mind to watch both sides play stupid games at the cost to 300 million lives. You would think that there are a few adults left on Capital Hill.
Malfeasant politicians and their enablers in the PACs and Wall Street need to be prosecuted by the truckload. Defund all pseudo governmental goups like ACORN, NEA and PBS which are acting as agencies for the Democrats and Marxists controlling the Federal Government.
Amend the constitution to limit an annually balanced federal budget to 15% of GDP. Choke off the public money supply.
The unemployment rate of IG’s will be going up. Obama’s handlers will have none of this.
I was going to say the same thing. You said it well. I agree that it’s time for some major housecleaning in both parties. Time to put these people out on the street and let them try to find honest work.
I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard he say this. He is an arrogant fool and it will be fun to watch Beck surpass him in the ratings. I wish he’d get off his kick about wanting Obama to come on the Factor.
Wanna bet…
The folks at the John Adams Project start taking pictures of the IGs in front of their homes and with their families? Then they will show these pictures to ACORN people who lose their jobs.
Wow, don’t be too hard on them Rep Issa. /sarc off
There should be calls for investigations, prosecutions, and the organization dissolved. Instead we get this limp wristed letter. So if ACORN resturcutres and puts business controls in place, are they OK with funding going to ACORN? The republicans are so mired in PC these days, they won’t call a spade a spade for fear of being called a racist. This is a step in the right direction but it is far from the strong actions that should be taken immediately, IMHO.
GAME CHANGER. B HUSSEIN WOULD HAVE LOST. PERIOD.