Posted by
Bill Crawford on Saturday, September 19, 2009 9:25:44 PM
I've met some ACORN people who are really trying to do good things. I've met a few more that are glorified post-adolescent radicals. My problems with them have much to do with the fact that the people who started this group, along with it's present leadership, clearly fall into the latter subset.
How this news came into wide distribution is an argument of alternative media that I've raised before here- it is just a more glaring example of the state of things today. The mainstream media is no longer an apologist for one political agenda over another, many of them are now abject cheerleaders for the same. Which is all fine and good, but the joke remains that they (unlike the Conservative media) STILL maintain that they are simply passing the news to us in an objective way, a la Ed Murrow.
But I digress. ACORN passed the tipping point with these revelations. I think some people could handle trying to find housing for a prostitution ring. In many cities, this would pass with a loud yawn. Skirting the tax laws? Sticking it to the IRS is considered sport all over the country, even if this is an extreme example.
But being told that they were going to traffic underage girls from other countries for that? I can't imagine a better conversation ender for anybody with the smallest sense of morality. That is just nuts.
So the Senate voted to pull their HUD funding, and they are still contemplating what the House overwhelmingly did- to pull all their funding. That is good news. And Commerce will no longer be using them to help with the 2010 Census, which is better news.
I say find another group to do what ACORN ostensibly was set up to help with. Start over somewhere else. Enough is enough.
Let's see if Obama throws them under the bus when the Bills reach his desk.