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Huh? What? Duh? The Senate de-funded ACORN?
Nancy Pelosi says she didn’t know:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable.
“I don’t even know what they [...]

(Photo source: 2008 ACORN slideshow presentation)
Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read the Politico headline about Team Obama trying to run away from ACORN:
“W.H. distances from activist group”
Choking. Up. With. Laughter.
Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.
He IS ACORN. And ACORN is him. The “accountability” that [...]

For once, Jon Stewart takes a break from Fox News-bashing to ask where the hell the establishment media reporters have been on the ACORN scandals.
Behold his momentary lapse of sanity.
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Meanwhile:
ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an [...]

Stung.

Who said it: “The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what.”

Oh, this is so rich.
So, so rich.
Norah O’Donnell of NBC News fretted this morning that the ACORN sting videos “might be viewed as entrapment.”
Yes, she actually said it.
Mark Finkelstein has the transcript/video here.
Now, let me remind Ms. O’Donnell of the glorious history of news “entrapment” at NBC News.
Um, there was that little matter of the [...]

Several Chicago readers and Twitterers report that ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson told WLS-AM Chicago talk show hosts Don Wade and Roma this morning that the reason he hasn’t covered the ACORN scandal is that he didn’t know about it.
Reader Patrick M. e-mails:
While listening to Don Wade and Roma this morning on WLS AM Chicago, [...]

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Just watched GOP Sen. Mike Johanns introduce his amendment on the Senate floor banning federal funds in the current transportation and housing appropriations bill from going to ACORN. Currently, ACORN is eligible to receive millions more in taxpayer funds through mortgage counseling, Community Development Block Grants, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program — [...]

NYC sting makes three. Not one more dime for coordinated corruption.

The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office issued a statement tonight indicating that it may prosecute the Big Government undercover team that conducted one of its ACORN/prostitution stings in B’more.
Yes, really.
The young reporters could face up to five years in jail for violating Maryland’s wiretap laws.
Reader John Muraro notes that the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office [...]

“We no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your offices.”

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Andrew Breitbart’s investigative team at Big Government has penetrated another ACORN office.
Go watch now.
James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles are performing an invaluable public service.
As I note in Culture of Corruption and have reported previously, the Bush administration bears ample blame for fueling the ACORN housing/mortgage counseling racket. The GOP increased funding for [...]

And the hits keep on coming. ACORN/Project Vote whistleblower Anita Moncrief has a new investigative piece at the Hot Air Greenroom on the criminal enterprise’s shakedown efforts with the SEIU targeting the Carlyle Group.
Repeat after me: ACORN is a criminal enterprise.

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Andrew Breitbart’s new website, Big Government, has videotape of ACORN officials in Baltimore offering to help two people posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service in order to secure housing — and giving advice on how to claim underage girls from South America [...]

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Eleven arrest warrants issued. Once again, Democrats will deny it’s yet another manifestation of coordinated corruption. And once again, ACORN will spin it as evidence that they are rooting out fraud:
Eleven people hired to register potential voters in Miami-Dade County before last year’s presidential election were being sought Wednesday for falsifying hundreds [...]

“…among our prizes is a grand-prize of a trip for two to Honolulu, Hawaii…”

If Team Obama could send their ACORN foot soldiers into taxpayer-funded schools to collect Census data, they would.
Instead, they’re turning your own children into proxy Census collectors. Specifically targeted: Bilingual children whom the government is relying on to reach non-English-speaking parents. (See my April 3, 2009 column: Obama Census – No Illegal Alien Left Behind.)
The [...]

Another former ACORN worker is about to spill the beans. Via the Las Vegas Sun:
The attorney general’s office turned up the heat Monday on a national organization at the heart of a voter registration fraud investigation.
Christopher Edwards, 33, the former Las Vegas field director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, [...]

Fashion statement.

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The Pelican Institute for Public Policy reports that the state of Louisiana is investigating ACORN.
It’s about time:
The Louisiana Attorney General has opened an investigation into the community-organizing organization ACORN.
“All we can say is we are investigating,” wrote Tammi Arender, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Buddy Caldwell’s office. “We can’t say much [...]

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Tea Party-bashers gone wild
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
The activist Left can’t stand competition. Last week in Long Island, NY, opponents of the Democrats’ government health care takeover legislation outnumbered Obama supporters ten to one. The Tea Party activists toted American flags and signs that read “WE CAN’T AFFORD FREE HEALTH CARE” – [...]

White House flack Robert Gibbs, Dick Durbin, and others are trashing the Tea Party movement/taxpayer counterinsurgency as “Brooks Brothers” astroturf brigades.
Vid of Durbin:

I’m reprinting my June 24 column in full below as a much-needed pot and kettle reminder.
See also Karl in the HA Green Room. Read the whole thing and pass it on, especially this:
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Here’s a White House beer summit invite list I’d like to see:
*New Black Panther Party thugs Malik Shabazz, King Samir Shabazz, and Jerry Jackson;
*The Department of Justice trial team that successfully won default judgments against the NBPP for their Election Day voter thug tactics in Philadelphia last fall;
*The poll workers and election lawyers who provided [...]

Culture of Corruption Watch: SEIU and ACORN.

Thug thizzle.

Repeat after me: ACORN is a criminal enterprise.

Here is yesterday’s Senate roll call vote on Robert M. Groves, of Michigan, to be Director of the Census:

(link)
Here’s all you need to know. ACORN approves:

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Previous Census blogging.

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Obama’s ground troops are back. The ACORN criminal racket has moved away from illegally breaking into homes back to mobbing financial institutions. Today:
Protesters in more than a dozen cities across the country are demanding that a group of mortgage companies who benefited from federal bailout money participate in a government program designed [...]

There is some confusion over the story about ACORN “changing its name” that needs to be cleared up and given context. Getting it right is important.
I provided a link to the piece by Kevin Mooney at the Examiner on Monday in my post focusing on Project Vote/ACORN’s lawsuit against whistleblower Anita Moncrief.
The link was [...]

My syndicated column today investigates the deep pockets behind the “grass-roots” campaign for Obamacare. Chicago crony/White House senior adviser David Axelrod is, of course, the master of astroturfing. So it certainly comes as no surprise that left-wing puppetmasters are behind the government health care takeover lobby. But an informed citizenry needs to know the nitty [...]