Who Says There Is No Longer “Bipartisanship” In Washington? Senate Gives Relieving PROOF There Is A “Right Vs. Left” And An Even Stronger “Right Vs. WRONG” With Nearly Unanimous Vote…
First off, let’s take note of the seven traitorous SCUMBAGS who voted in opposition to federal funding of a group called “ACORN” who was caught on tape in recent days attempting to coerce Citizens into blatantly stealing our tax dollars by “gaming” the “system”…
YOUR Senate Hall of Shame, folks:
•Dick Durbin (D-IL)
•Roland Burris (D-IL)
•Robert Casey (D-PA)
•Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
•Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
•Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
•Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
For your convenience, just click right HERE to send these SUB-HUMANS your “personal love note” for their unamerican actions. It’ll only take a minute and believe me, there is no recourse to fear — 87 out of 100 of your Senators are in full agreement with you.
Bertha Lewis, the CEO of ACORN isn’t very pleased with the hugely bi-partisan effort to stifle an effort arguably worthy of the otherwise USELESS and unconstitutional RICO Act (Hot Air — H/T goes out to MemeOrandum for The Pull):
“We’re disappointed that the Senate took the rare and politically convenient step of supporting eliminating some federal funding for a single organization, one that has been the target of an historical political assault stemming variously from the Bush White House, Fox News, and other conservative quarters…”
(Snip!)
“Fortunately, ACORN derives most of its income from its members and other supporters, so the decision will have little impact on overall operations. Tonight’s vote will burden the families who benefited from ACORN’s important work to improve housing conditions in the United States.”
Message to “Big Bertha” Louis: It’s time for a SERIOUS “gut-check” when the VAST majority of your previous supporters are pretty much in agreement you are a two-bit CROOK and your organization is exactly what one would expect from one being run from a two-bit CROOK.
PSST: Wakeup Call, Bertha… WAKEUP call, hun. Welcome back to the private sector and PUH-LEEZ tuck those other seven TRAITORS under those thunder arms and take them along with you as you exit stage left, Ma’am.
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1:24 am on September 15th, 2009 1
I think that this was enlightened self interest on the part of the Dems. With all the stuff coming to light about the crap ACORN pulls, it would be the stake through the heart of their political life to keep shoving tax dollars to ACORN. But, I’m sure they will come up with a work around. ACORN is too important to the DNC to really carry through with it. And, one of ACORNS big guns is sitting behind a desk in the Oval Office now.
9:44 am on September 15th, 2009 2
GTL half the time I never know if your serious or are kidding but I hope you had the same anger I did over the fact that Americans were sending ACORN tax dollars to enforce a progressive agenda. To support and attempt to get elected progressive candidates all across America.
I hope you were outraged over that because I know I was. I know this vote is a sham because its an attempt by the Democrats to distance themselves from this movement. Its akin to the right disavowing the Religious right. Might do it publicly but they still have huge sway and influence.
Acorn needs to be investigated and the money trail followed to the logical conclusion. All the way to the White House.
The GTL™ Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, Dead serious, GDA. I am The Gun Toting Liberal, not The Gun Toting Democrat. Voter disenfranchisement is TREASON and anybody who uses our already tight tax money for any cause other than what it has been earmarked for is just one small step below treason — be they “righties” or “lefties”, it doesn’t matter
11:11 am on September 15th, 2009 3
Okay F&B, I see you through your little ploy. I don’t quite know how you took over GTLs’ blog, but you need to give it back. I come here for my daily fix of Leftwing crazy and I can’t have you spoiling that with something actually sensible.
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
@Chuck, Dang Chuck, even us right wingers are right every now and then, or in my case almost always!
11:38 am on September 15th, 2009 4
YES….Classic Chuck!!! Better watch out with your “left wing crazy” comment…The “Bad” Dog will be on your ass quicker than a stimulus bill through congress…I think its the DOG that has taken over the GTL, F&B is just trying to keep from getting bit…
bad dog Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
@CLD, And there Mr. Whinypants goes again.
GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY!
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
@CLD, Hey CLD, I didn’t know you were in Canada.
bad dog Reply:
September 17th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
@Fandb, I was referring to the plane of reality where normal people are survive without the constant intrusion of your wingnut bizarro world. Sorry, I should have been more clear.
1:01 pm on September 15th, 2009 5
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, expecially with the former Junior Senator from Illinois (sorry Joe, I owe you a quarter) sitting in the Oval Office.
Funny thing is, I heard an interview with Charlie Gibson on the radio this morning on my way to work, and Charlie claimed he had not even heard about the latest ACORN criminal activity. This is supposed to be “professional” journalism at its finest?
The people who conducted the sting operation went to three separate ACORN locations and received nearly the same advice from each one. It’s almost as if they had policies in place for such questions. If you need to know how to open a brothel with 13 year old illegal aliens and avoid paying taxes on your earnings, just contact ACORN.
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
@Fandb, Obama might have to let this one go, considering how quickly the truth about ACORN is coming out. It wouldn’t be the first time Obama has thrown one of his confidants and allies under the bus…
Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Gov. Blagojevich (IL), and the list goes on.
He’ll throw the U.S. under the bus too, just as soon as it suits his purpose to do so. He has already demonstrated his lack of loyalty to his close friends.
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
@Fandb, Dang, now I’m talking to myself.
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
@Fandb, Yeah, but at least you’re not answering yourself.
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
@Fandb, Oops.
The GTL™ Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
@Fandb, LMFAO, bro — I always KNEW you were a mess!
Joe Lovell Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@Fandb, who wrote: “It will be interesting to see how this plays out, expecially with the former Junior Senator from Illinois (sorry Joe, I owe you a quarter) sitting in the Oval Office.”
Feel free to use it, it isn’t under copyright. But in this context I think I would maybe refer to him as “the former ACORN legal counsel.”
“The people who conducted the sting operation went to three separate ACORN locations and received nearly the same advice from each one. It’s almost as if they had policies in place for such questions.”
And like they have had a lot of practice doing it, too. Kind of makes you wonder what top shelf attorney coached them on it, doesn’t it?
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
@Joe Lovell, And it makes you wonder how many actual criminal enterprises have started on the advice and counseling of ACORN.
It clearly wasn’t the first time they did it. It was just the first time they got caught.
6:43 pm on September 15th, 2009 6
@ GTL – I hate to be the one fussing about errors on this article but I think you wrote it backwards. You talk about the 7 in opposition to federal funding, when I believe you meant 7 in opposition to cutting federal funding. BTW- I knew of one youtube clip but I found out in F&B’s comments that the undercover guy got the same results in 3 separate offices. Wow, that is amazing. Hey GTL, with all the football to watch this weekend I guess omitting a word or two while writing an article is understandable.
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
@Mike 300 spartans, Mike300, as I recall, the offices were in Washington, Baltimore, and New York.
bad dog Reply:
September 17th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
@Mike 300 spartans, Mike, if the undercover guy got “the same results in 3 separate offices,” we would have heard about it by now.
It was a fluke, a local employee goofing because she thought she was being set up (she also claimed she murdered her ex husband).
There are actually real things to be upset about in today’s world. This isn’t one of them.
I rank the Senate vote right up there with that classic waste of time to rename French Fries “freedom fries” in the Congressional cafeteria.
And this is the most august debating body in the history of the world. Sad.
11:10 pm on September 15th, 2009 7
GTL, I can’t believe you’re playing along with this charade. With friends like you … Well, I won’t finish that thought.
You’re getting this story wrong, playing along with Republican memes just as you did when you repeated talking points about Michael Moore.
ACORN does not apply for or receive federal grants.
It sometimes does work for other nonprofits that do receive housing grants, but that previously was up to the nonprofits, not the government.
This work included identifying people eligible to get food stamps, helping people facing foreclosure get counseling and services, and provide lead paint remediation.
Of course, Republicans hate these types of services. They’d rather see poor kids grow up retarded than receive a dime of their tax money because they are vicious, screw-you pretend-Christians. They’d rather see a family go hungry rather than get help applying for food stamps because food stamps is socialism to them. They’d rather see people lose their homes than get help keeping them.
ACORN does not receive any federal money for its voter registration services.
ACORN has never received, nor was it ever going to receive, any part of the bailout. The right wingers wanted you to believe that they would get 20% of the bailout–or an amount of money equal to the operating budget of the State of California. Um, no. That’s stupid on its face, but that’s never stopped the most gullible idiots in the world from repeating a lie before…
GTL, please do your homework on this one. You’re wrong, and you’re helping the moonbats turn a good organization (that they consider a political opponent, so screw the people they were helping, because party before country, right?) into a boogie man. You’re also helping hurt an organization that is actually doing a lot of good for poor people.
The only unAmerican thing I see being done here is the Senate actually voting to punish an organization. This ranks right up there in spinelessness with the Democrats voting to censor MoveOn for an ad.
This is why we won’t win, GTL. We turn on our own.
I’m going to give ACORN $100 right now. Will you join me?
Fandb Reply:
September 15th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
@bad dog, ACORN has become a criminal organization by participating in criminal activities.
They may have done some good at one time, but they have become corrupt to their core. Cutting federal funding was the best thing this Senate has done.
Deal with it, BD.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 12:10 am
@Fandb, Criminal organization? You mean the entire organization was convicted in a court of law? With what evidence?
Is this one of your “I pulled this out of my ass or the ass of my favorite right wing blogger” moments?
I like your definition better. That way, I get to call the Republican Party a criminal organization. They’re a million times more tainted. Hell, I mean McCain even broke his own campaign finance law:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14928.html
Maybe we shouldn’t let any Republicans run for public office?
And using your logic, let’s cut all military contractors who are convicted–meaning they really are “criminal” organizations–from receiving military contracts.
Nope, that won’t happen. You see, they have WEIGHT with the fat cats. Hell, FandB, all ACORN does is help poor people. Screw them!
http://www.d-n-i.net/war_profiteering/13criminal.htm
And you agree it shouldn’t happen? Well then, you have one set of principles that apply to people you don’t like, and one set that applies to people you do like.
It’s called a double standard. Deal with it.
GawdDayumAmerica Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 12:51 am
@bad dog,
U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, has become an original co-sponsor of legislation that would terminate all federal funding to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN.
The reason GTL is “playing along” Is that GTL values truth over spin. Integrity of facts over what ever it is your trying to peddle BD.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R.-Ohio) released information showing ACORN has received at least $31 million in federal funding since 1998 hours after the FBI announced they were launching a nationwide investigation against the non-profit.
The reason GTL is “playing along” Is that GTL values truth over spin. Integrity of facts over what ever it is your trying to peddle BD.
At least $53 million in federal funds have gone to ACORN activists since 1994, and the controversial group could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states.
Acorn is not a bipartisan organization. Its agenda is to get progressives elected. That means its partisan and we cannot have tax payers dollars supporting them.
Peddle your drivel elsewhere BD. or at least study a topic before you make allegations even impugning the integrity of the very guy that keeps you around here for the rest of us to have comic relief.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 1:15 am
@GawdDayumAmerica, who says, “Peddle your drivel elsewhere BD.”
And you can stick your and John Boehner’s lies up your ass.
CLD Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 10:41 am
@bad dog, What class…nice work Scooby Doo…your a cartoon character come alive.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
@CLD, And here comes Shaggy right on schedule, trying to hump my leg again, spouting off whatever nonsensical, childish garbage pops into his head first. Hi, Shagg.
Fandb Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 11:15 am
@bad dog, “you have one set of principles that apply to people you don’t like, and one set that applies to people you do like. It’s called a double standard. Deal with it.” — Just the same as you “Bad Dog”.
ACORN may have helped poor people at one time, but now they help pimps and prostitutes set up brothels for the exploitation of 13 year old illegal aliens. Or at least they would if given the opportunity, and the evidence is on videotape.
BTW the sting has expanded from 3 ACORN offices to 5 ACORN offices the last I heard. All willing to provide criminal advice to would-be criminals.
Accept it. ACORN is not what you think it is.
I’m fully in favor of helping poor people as much as I can, but I am not in favor of supporting criminal activity with government grants.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
@Fandb, No, the evidence is not on videotape. Go to the ACORN website. It’s total BS.
“I’m fully in favor of helping poor people as much as I can …”
I see no evidence of this.
“… but I am not in favor of supporting criminal activity with government grants.”
I do see evidence of this. You apparently don’t mind the Republican Party, a real criminal organization, field candidates for ofice. You apparently don’t mind military contractors intentionally ripping off your tax money and continuing to receive contracts.
Finally, there is no evidence that the organization has done anything criminal, nor has it been convicted (outside the august courtroom of Glenn Beck’s tiny mind), so it is not a criminal organization.
This means you want the government to single out and punish a liberal organization you would like to see as criminal, but you’re okay with military contractors, who have actually been found guilty of crimes, continue to milk billions of our tax dollars.
And that, FandB, is a double standard. Specifically, yours.
Fandb Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
@bad dog, First, don’t even pretend that you aren’t the one with the double standard.
Second, then let ACORN press charges and/or sue the people responsible for the video tapes that clearly show ACORN representatives conspiring to commit criminal actions.
Geez, do you ever stop whining? You sound like a puppy dog with his tail caught in the door.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
@Fandb, who says, “First, don’t even pretend that you aren’t the one with the double standard.”
Care to back up that tough talk, big guy? Or did you pull that statement of the same ass where you got your teabagger crowd estimating skills?
“Geez, do you ever stop whining? You sound like a puppy dog with his tail caught in the door.”
I say it to you. You say it to me. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
bad dog Reply:
September 18th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
@Fandb, Gee, whatever happened to that “sting of 5 offices”?
By the way, did you hear that the GOP has been declared a “criminal organization”?
Yeah, they had this guy named Ted Bundy working for them at one time, it seems.
Since an entire organization can be termed criminal because of the actions of one person, even if they’re joking, then the GOP is now a criminal organization. Since we can’t give criminal organizations receiving public funding, the GOP can now never receive public financing. The Senate voted on this today, agreeing with me. All of the Republicans voted to condemn the Republican Party, because they have consistent logic.
And Ted Bundy, I don’t think, was joking.
Oh yeah, because Timothy McVeigh was Catholic, the Senate just voted to take away the tax-exempt status of all churches.
Does that make you sad?
Fandb Reply:
September 18th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
@bad dog, I believe it is seven now. Louisiana cut funding. ACORN’s little criminal democrat house of cards is falling apart faster than a “Bad Dog” argument, well almost that fast.
You can try to point the finger at a thousand acts by other people, you can whine and cry and stamp your little paws all you want, it won’t change the facts, and it doesn’t make ACORN’s criminal activities acceptable.
“Bad Dog” is more worried about protecting his tiny little, easily shattered ego than he is about the intent of ACORN employees to assist in putting 13 year old girls into forced prostitution, slave labor.
That is just another of many reasons why the democrats are the Party of Hate.
And you, “Bad Dog”, a self-avowed democrat are one of the most Hate-Filled people I have ever come across.
Why do you fill your life with so much hate? Your entire party is becoming filled with Hate. So much hate that you would sacrifice young teenage girls in order to protect your criminal hate-filled organization.
You are an object of pity. I pity you for all your hate.
bad dog Reply:
September 18th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
@Fandb, who says, “You are an object of pity. I pity you for all your hate.”
And you’re a liar and that propensity to lie so casually about important things marks you, even though you are a total stranger to me, as the most arrogant person I’ve ever met. You would lie and hurt an organization that helps poor people if lying gives your side 5 minutes of gloating. You would lie about the size of your teabagger orgy, a movement promoted by the largest cable “news” network, just so you wouldn’t feel like such a loser.
What don’t you lie about?
But that’s not even the sickest part of your soulless lack of personality. The sickest part is a casual accusation I have no character for writing a column that is published on 9/11. Your fellow right wing fruitloops can bash me and liberals, your favorite right wing bloggers can attack liberals, your favorite right wing radio entertainers and TV blowhards can bash liberals on 9/11, but a guy named Bad Dog can’t bash wingnuts on 9/11. The fact that you would exploit the tragedy of 9/11, so casually and for such petty stakes, and without any sense of shame or introspection, is revolting.
Which makes you revolting as a human being.
Fandb Reply:
September 19th, 2009 at 1:26 am
@bad dog, Maybe revolting to you “bad dog”, but no one cares what you think.
bad dog Reply:
September 19th, 2009 at 1:31 am
@Fandb, Obviously, you do.
And by the way, not revolting to me. Revolting to anybody who isn’t a hypocrite and who wouldn’t use the 9/11 tragedy as a way to needle a minor liberal blogger, as you so blatantly did, without a second of thought or remorse.
Lack of character, huh? You’re the expert.
1:33 am on September 16th, 2009 8
GTL, at least TRY to hear the other side of this:
http://www.acorn.org/
GawdDayumAmerica Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 10:52 am
@bad dog,
Oh puhlease. Purdy puhlease. Them conservatives are so mean. I mean when I hit them with lies they respond with truth.
How dare they do that.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, Did you stick John Boehner’s lies up your ass like I told you to? Come back when you have.
GawdDayumAmerica Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
@bad dog,
Heres a good one Bad Puppy.
From Acorns OWN WEBSITE::
Does ACORN Recieve Federal Funding?
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now does not apply for nor does it receive any federal <<>>
Kewl…them guys are so honest………oh but wait…….whats this??
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving <<>> to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, Let me explain this again. Maybe you’ll understand it. Blocking funding and cutting off funding are two different things. ACORN receives no grants from the government. Period. End of story.
Remember what I said about the Big Lie, Adolf. They certainly have you believing it.
GawdDayumAmerica Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
@bad dog,
Ahh I see they are preventing someone from getting something they dont receive in the first place.
Somehow theirs almost perverse logic in that. Sorta like how they will run health care under Saul Alinsky’s Communist modeling.
Heres your healthcare….that will be 200 dollars and 50 bucks under the table…..and if you add 100 we will teach you how to be a pimp.
Fandb Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, Now you get it GDA. Don’t believe the Senate, they don’t know whether they are funding ACORN or not. Only “Bad Dog” knows who the Senate in the U.S. is funding.
LMAO @ “Bad Dog”
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, “Ahh I see they are preventing someone from getting something they dont receive in the first place.”
Now you get it! And you are starting to understand how the most august government body in the world conducts itself.
“..and if you add 100 we will teach you how to be a pimp”
Or you could run for Congress as a Republican and become a whore!
Fandb Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
@bad dog, Now you’re just embarassing yourself “Bad Dog”.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
@Fandb, No, FandB, embarrassing yourself would be to claim 1.2 million showed up for an event that only 70,000 lame-ass wackos showed up for, reference a quote that actually talked about Obama’s inauguration, and get this from a website showing a photo fakely attributed to the teabagger party.
Now THAT would be embarrassing.
Seeing as you like to pull facts out of your ass and the asses of right wing bloggers, why should I believe anything you have to say? You repeat lies you gullibly believe because they reinforce your narrow little right wing–oops, I mean libertarian, with a lower case L or whatever–worldview.
GawdDayumAmerica Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
@bad dog,
Remember Fandb……Bad Dog is the official spokesperson for the White House…so listen to him carefully.
His words, deeds and actions mimick the White House and they are proud to endorse Bad Dog as their official spokesperson.
GawdDayumAmerica Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, Now that I think about it…I actually think that Bad Dog is really Howard Dean
You know the guy that said…….”I hate Republicans and EVERYTHING they stand for”
Its now starting to make sense to me.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, “Bad Dog is the official spokesperson for the White House…so listen to him carefully.”
Oh Lord, don’t tease me! How I’d love to be WH’s official spokesman for a day.
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, who says, “actually think that Bad Dog is really Howard Dean.”
Great man! Thanks for the comparison! [blushes at the compliment]
“You know the guy that said…….”I hate Republicans and EVERYTHING they stand for””
Hey, that’s my line! Well, it’s like they say, great minds think alike!
Have a good night, Adolf.
8:30 pm on September 16th, 2009 9
Yep. Yep.
AT least we got you to admit one thing.
Your life is driven by hate.
Sleep tight and hold that hate tight. You’ll have a fresh new day tomorrow to wake up and start the hate machine and get er back in full swing.
Perhaps you can come up with something more original then Adolph and Hitler though…that ones been over used by your side. Sleep on it..
bad dog Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, who says, “AT least we got you to admit one thing. Your life is driven by hate.”
First, “life” and “political interests” may be the same for you, but not for me. I actually have a life, and it doesn’t revolve around you. Big surprise there.
Second, I don’t hate you. I nothing you. You are, quite literally, nothing to me other than a convenient punching bag.
Sleep tight, Adolf. I hope you have pleasant Nazi dreams tonight. Maybe you’ll get to lynch some black people.
GawdDayumAmerica Reply:
September 17th, 2009 at 7:51 am
@bad dog,
You are right I am nothing to you and thats the scary part. Scary indeed. When the other person is nothing…it makes hating them that much easier.
bad dog Reply:
September 17th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
@GawdDayumAmerica, I thought I made myself perfectly clear. You are nothing, so I have zero emotion toward you. Hate is a luxury requiring energy and time, which I reserve for people who have earned that energy and time. You haven’t. You are literally nothing to me other than a convenient punching bag representing right wing ignorance. Sorry.