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So, the GOP leadership is waking up to Team Obama’s “Chicago-style politics.” Here’s GOP leader John Boehner condemning the White House heavy hand. I was in the Windy City last night for the United Republican Fund’s 75th anniversary. URF is committed to electing conservatives to office and I was impressed with the number of fresh, [...]

President Obama has nominated the SEIU Purple Shirts’ associate general counsel, Craig Becker, to a slot on the National Labor Relations Board. Today, the Senate HELP Committee cleared him through on a 15-8 vote without a hearing. GOP Senators Mike Enzi (for whom Becker served as a labor counsel) [correction: the GOP NLRB nominee Brian [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti ACORN is a criminal enterprise. It took decades to build up its massive coffers and intricate web of affiliates across the country. It will take months and years to untangle the entire operation. And it will take time, money, and and relentless sunshine to dismantle the government-subsidized, partisan racket. It can’t [...]

Busy with family. Throwing out a couple discussion topics: * What good is an “opposition” party that wants to elect its own worst opponents? Related: Where is Sarah Palin? * Rush shreds the RAAAAAAACIST card. Related: First newspaper retracts fake RAAAACIST Rush quotes. * Out: Dissent is patriotic! In: Fox News Channel’s dissenting anchors are [...]

Yes, it’s time for the upside-down elephant. The Stupid Party is at it again. The subject of today’s column: An abomination in the NY23 special congressional race to replace former GOP Rep. John McHugh, who accepted President Obama’s Army Secretary position. Way to go, Beltway GOP establishment. Grass-roots fiscal conservatives are fired up over ACORN, [...]

Family feud.

Crime, Census, and censorship by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 There are serious problems with the administration of the U.S. Census. Americans have good reason to be wary of the stranger’s knock on the door. Unfortunately, anything critics say about the federal census can and will be used against them in the court of [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports tonight that the ACORN/Rathke embezzlement sum was $5 million, not the widely cited $1 million figure admitted publicly to date by the left-wing racketeering group. But guess what? The figure is not new — and it is not news to the whitewashers at the New York [...]

Glue man.

Bank of America has been caving in to left-wing special interests for years. The financial giant teamed up with the open-borders lobby to offer illegal alien home loans. It forked over payoffs to self-declared bank terrorist outfit NACA (the taxpayer-subsidized Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America). BoA also capitulated to a Jesse Jackson shakedown. And then, [...]

“Insufficient tuned-in-ness.”

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti As expected, ACORN has filed suit against the undercover sting duo James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, as well as BigGovernment.com publisher Andrew Breitbart. Shoot the messenger. Sue the messenger: It’s the ACORN way. Ask Anita MonCrief. *** Here’s the PDF of the lawsuit.

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti 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, [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti Channeling clueless Charlie Gibson and Nancy Pelosi, President Obama is playing dumb about ACORN. Here’s what he said on ABC’s This Week this morning: STEPHANOPOULOS: But have your — have some of your allies made it easier for — handed your opponents some ammunition, like ACORN, for example… OBAMA: Well, look, [...]

My column today blasts ACORN Housing Corporation’s criminal-enabling home loan program for illegal aliens. To paraphrase Jon Stewart: Where the hell is everyone? AHC is one of the endless non-profit arms of ACORN. Their response to the BigGovernment.com sting videos hasn’t received as much attention as the national ACORN flagship’s. You can read AHC’s CYA [...]

Better late than never. Prepare to be called a RAAAAAAACIST, Jay:

Good. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal today cut off state funding for the community activist group ACORN. Jindal has also blocked any state agency for entering into contracts with the organization. The executive order also cuts off any future state funding of ACORN, on the heels of a series of embarrassing incidents for the organization. The [...]

Better late than never: The US House today joined the Senate in voting to defund ACORN, the community advocacy group beset by allegations of voter registration fraud and videotapes apparently showing employees advising conservative activists posing as a prostitute and pimp how to break the law. The measure, offered as part of a motion on [...]

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 [...]

(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 [...]

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. *** Meanwhile: ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti 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 [...]

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

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti 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 [...]