Posted by
thekeenobserver on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:39:44 PM
Our wretched political sewer - the U.S. Senate - will it ever dry up? Not anytime soon.
In a hollow maneuver (smacking of window dressing) 83 of our most wonderful senate legislators have voted to cut ACORN off from receiving federal funding.
Rather noteworthy were seven creepy/crawly Democrats, opting to slither under their rocks, and maintain support for ACORN's corrupt organization - complicit in voter fraud, tax cheating, and other gainful pursuits, such as helping people in the white slavery business get started.
Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding. A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have even gotten his measure to the Senate floor.
But after video exposés of ACORN offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Baltimore, where "professsional expertise" on tax evasion, and trafficking in underage girls was offered, the Johanns Amendment managed to garner an impressive bipartisan showing.
The "Magnificent 7" who voted FOR preserving ACORN's funding were as follows:
-Richard Durbin (D-ILLINOIS)
-Roland Burris (D-ILLINOIS)
-Robert Casey (D-PENNSYLVANIA)
-Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NEW YORK)
-Patrick Leahy (D-VERMONT)
-Bernie Sanders (I-VERMONT)
-Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RHODE ISLAND)
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The above are some of most extreme, radical leftists in the senate today; and now that they've revealed their shameful support for ACORN, odds are 10 to 1 that voters will return many of them back to office in a landslide.
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Of course, Durbin and Burris are part of Obama's "inner circle" from Illinois.
In the case of Vermont, it was once a great, self-reliant state, before radical liberalism in the personas of Howard Dean, Leahy and Sanders all showed up.
Leahy and Sanders only maintain their Senate seats because of outside support (NEA, SEIU, AFL-CIO). With all the "Take Back Vermont" signs posted around the countryside, their political bases certainly do not depend on the natives.
Curiously, New York's Kirsten Gillibrand has defended her questionable support of ACORN in a statement of her own, saying that: (quote)... "I find these ACORN employees to be reprehensible, and will call for a full investigation, and a plan to prevent any further abuse...but the truth remains that thousands of New York families who are facing foreclosure depend on charitable organizations like ACORN for assistance.”
Charitable organizations like ACORN?
Sure; right up there with Mother Theresa and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Give very generously the next time they knock at your door.
Not surprisingly, there were 8 senators (7 of them republicans) who did not vote.
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)- illness
Coburn (R-OK)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hutchison (R-TX
McCain (R-AZ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Vitter (R-LA)
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The absence of above can be explained in one simple word: What passed was a only a RESOLUTION to cut off ACORN.
The Senate has only taken an initial step. It still must be first proposed in the House of Representatives, then get passed; and then anti-president Obama would simply veto it, saying... "ACORN's actions only represent a shameful few...the problem only goes as far as this one incident."
But let's play fantasyland, assuming ACORN actually gets pulled from receiving grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. What then?
How many other federal income sources does ACORN have?
Have they been shut down yet or not? It would be the political equivalent of trying to completely eliminate a giant red anthill in the Amazon rainforest.
ACORN's funding can be cut off and the organization dismantled, but it will show up within days as a "New" group with a "New" name - run by the same corrupt people performing the same despicable "services."
An example of the sheer emptiness of the Senate's action is lowly Al Franken (D-MN), also voting to cut off funding; yet he owes his political career to ACORN.
Can anyone (but the most naive) believe that a corrupt body of "bi-cameral" hacks would completely sever the lifeblood of the organization directly responsible for the existing democratic majority in the first place? Harry Reid is probably singing in the shower about this one.
This resolution is almost laughable; a PR stunt; purely Senate stagecraft - with the desired effect of everyone thinking that NOW, something is actually being DONE. Oh sure it is.
What Congress really needs to do is thoroughly investigate, hold hearings (ala Watergate), then expose all front groups associated with - or acting in the same manner - as ACORN (or whatever they are called); then arrest anyone discovered to be complicit in criminal acts.
According to some sources, ACORN branches out into as many as 200 or more splinter groups. The number may be inflated or understated, but they need to be identified - then severely prosecuted.
Congress must control all funding, and not permit any new czars, responsible only to the president, to act without congressional oversight in any investigation.
A special, non-partisan committee would need to examine any affiliations that Mr. Obama (and/or his staff) has with ACORN, or any such group; and if illegality can be demonstated -take action, up to and INCLUDING impeachment.
But (sigh) we can dream a little bit every once in a while - can't we?
PREDICTION: There will be NO Congressional investigation of ACORN: the Senate's action is little other than a meaningless grandstand to appease Fox News, and let the rest of the lamestream media know that "something is being done."
Just think of that nameless Funeral Home (discovered by Glen Beck's researchers) in New Orleans. ACORN, plus a mere 1,100 other community organizations (including the Service Employees International Union) use this ONE location as a mail drop.
Oh...by the way; it's not a funeral home any more; but the millions of dollars in taxpayer money that finds its way there is evidence that ACORN, and its many shadow organizations, will take much more than a Senate vote to be put to rest for good.