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My friend David Weigel over at Slate thinks it’s knee-slappingly hilarious that lawmakers took the time to prohibit federal funding of President Obama’s favorite activist group in the proposed Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act. He writes in a blog post sarcastically titled “Good News: Stalled FEMA Funding Bill Bans ACORN Funding”:
I’ve been poking around today on an emerging issue: What will be cut in order to fund FEMA’s obligations for Hurricane Irene recovery? The search takes me to the text of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which was narrowly passed by the House but sits stalled in the Senate. That stall is the reason that FEMA has to move around money meant for Joplin disaster recovery in order to take care of Irene. I don’t see why there’s a hold-up, because Republicans did a good job making sure no DHS money could go to liberal groups.
First off, ACORN is not a liberal group. It is a radical leftist group.
Second, lawmakers have every reason to worry that FEMA funds might go to ACORN’s new front groups. FEMA gave close to $1.5 million to ACORN in 2008 and 2009. Federal money, including FEMA funds, has a habit of disappearing into a vortex, as noted by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.
Third, the Obama administration is already funneling taxpayer dollars to ACORN in violation of a congressionally approved funding ban. The Department of Housing and Urban Development gave an $80,000 grant to ACORN Housing, which has renamed itself Affordable Housing Centers of America, in March.
ACORN officials openly acknowledge that ACORN’s new front groups created after the shell corporation named ACORN filed for bankruptcy last year will come together under a new name in order to help reelect President Obama next year. Read all about it in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
Weigel provides a list of the ACORN-related groups that will be denied federal funding under the DHS appropriations bill. Here is a sampling of just a few groups on the list that remain active:
ACORN Canada
ACORN International (a.k.a. Community Organizations International)
New York Communities for Change
Affordable Housing Centers of America
Action Now
Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change
Arkansas Community Organizations
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
New England United for Justice
Texas Organizing Project
Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change
Organization United for Reform
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment
A Community Voice
Working Families Party
Hilarious, ain’t it?
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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.
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albert constantine jr| 8.29.11 @ 4:11PM
Please keep Mr. Weigel in Washington and out of Delaware. What he finds humorous a mildly trained investigators would find criminal.
Oldefarte| 8.29.11 @ 4:19PM
Maybe he and the Democrats should completely de-fund ICE in order to pay the fed's costs for Irene's damages, as indicated by the following:
'.......Obama's Uncle -- An Illegal — Arrested for Drunk Driving Monday, August 29, 2011 02:41 PMBy: Martin Gould...The drunk driving arrest of President Barack Obama’s uncle has thrown the White House’s new immigration policies straight into the spotlight. Now GOP politicians and immigration policy groups are vowing to keep a close eye on the case of Onyango Obama, who is being held in custody as there is a warrant already out ordering his deportation to Kenya.
“We will be watching this case very carefully,” Ira Mehlman, spokesman for FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Newsmax. “He was already under a deportation order so it raises the question of why he was he still here?”And freshman Republican Rep. Joe Walsh said, “This is the height of irony. Just a couple of weeks after the president sends out an executive order his uncle, who shouldn’t be here in the first place, gets arrested. “The timing is just exquisite, the Illinois congressman told Newsmax.“They said 300,000 cases would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Is this guy on that list and who is going to be looking at his case? I trust it is not the president. There could be a massive conflict of interest here.” Onyango Obama was arrested on August 24 outside the Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Mass. after nearly hitting a police patrol car as he went through a stop sign. Tests showed his blood alcohol level was nearly double the legal limit. He was held in detention when police learned about the deportation order.When told he could make one phone call, he said “I think I should call the White House.”The case has received little media attention in the United States although it was widely covered in both Britain and Australia.....'
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.29.11 @ 5:46PM
If you can't laugh in the face of waste, fraud and abuse what good are you in a collectivist society.
LC Jack | 8.29.11 @ 6:08PM
On the topic of FEMA, just about everyone has incorrect information on what their core purpose is in regards to incident/accident/weather related response. It was frustrating as hell, seeing the abuse and blame put on the agency during Katrina.
In a past life in the Nuclear Power racket, I worked closely with FEMA on accident response planning.
Here's the simple bottom line: FEMA is an executive agency, established by Jimmy Peanut, that is tasked with COORDINATION of federal assistance to the state and local government. They are most definitely NOT a first-responder. They have the rolodex phone number file and checkbook to obtain personnel and materiel support to the state during a crisis. Again, they are NOT an agency equipped for early response, that is the duty of state and local government. Also during an emergency MUST be invited in by the state. They CANNOT just show up and takeover an accident. The attack on FEMA re: Katrina is absolute BS. Gov. Blanco REPEATEDLY refused to bring FEMA and the fed folks into the state, even after being begged to by GWB. She and that idiot Nagin are 100% responsible for the post-Katrina disaster. Nagin in particular as he diverted funds earmarked for levee repair, in the EXACT area it failed. IIRC it was moved to construction of some N.O. downtown foutain or some ridiculous thing like that. So after all this time, why hasn't ANYONE come out and put the real blame where it belongs, and is ain't Brownie or Bush.
Pecos Pete| 8.29.11 @ 6:39PM
What? Not blame Bush? That ain't in the playbook. Facts don't matter. Only repetitive lies matter.
Oldefarte| 8.29.11 @ 7:45PM
You're completely correct and factual! Blanco and Nagin are 150% to blame as it was their primary responsibility which they failed in spades. Hell, he even hightailed it out of NO to Las Vegas. All either one of those idiots had to do was load up the NO indigents on hundreds of available school/city busses and transport them to BR or westward to safety. No they were both too stupid and incompetitent to do their jobs. Thankfully the people of Louisiana and No defeated them both at their re-election and now have much more competitent administrators as governor and mayor!!!!!!!
Anommynous| 8.30.11 @ 8:50AM
And to think that Mr. Weigel called himself a conservative while at Northwestern (although he voted for Nader in 2000 and Kerry in 2004) and did a stint at Reason, but now works at Slate and MSNBC. That's quite an interesting career, all over the place. What does Mr. Weigel believe? What are his principles? Or does he just stick his finger in the air to judge the wind (but only the ill wind of the Beltway)? Well, whatever; at least his name will forever be associated with the shaming of the JournOList.