Waist-Deep In Corruption

While the ObamaCamp and many Democrat leaders continue to desperately search for hiding places from the latest outing of ACORN as an organizational nut that is rotten to the core, Obama continues to remain mum on the issue. But, then Obama has been at least waist-deep in ACORN’s corruption for almost two decades. And what might actually come from both the US Senate and House of Representatives calling for a real investigation of Obama’s ACORN? Possibly nothing. Still, there is every indication that the Dictator-in-Chief may veto any and all requests for investigations. After all, it was Obama who ordered the June 2009 investigation of ACORN stopped in its tracks. Or, either the House or Senate could actually remove the investigation wording when the resolution goes to behind-closed-doors committee meetings. This is how corrupt our Congress has become.

To reiterate previous columns, as well as the addition of new incriminating-to-Obama information, our Dictator-in-Chief has been involved with ACORN for years and even taught its members some of the same bullying and intimidation thug-tactics the organization uses today. Despite continuing ObamaLies, Obama DID train ACORN in multiple aspects of community organizing.

Obama taught the organization how to bully and intimidate banks into making very risky mortgage loans to people who could not afford to buy a house. This was exacerbated by Democrats in Congress (most notably Rep. Barney Franks (D-MA), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines) who appear to have used both Fannie Mae and Freddie MAC as one of the Democrats’ (New Marxist Party‘s) personal slush funds. To their credit, Republicans had for years been attempting to gain more oversight over both pf these institutions. Democrats in Congress blocked them. Both Fannie Mae and Freddie MAC went bankrupt and were the seminal cause for the financial disaster in which the US--if not the world--currently finds itself embroiled.

ACORN’s continued tactics of intimidation, the creation of never-ending chaos (the tyrant’s best friend), criminal activity and its attempts to fatally damage all aspects of the US Republic, have been and are still being employed as tools in the overall strategy to bring the USA to its ultimate destruction and demise. Then, the Marxist takeover that is currently occurring in the USA will be complete. There will be the ruling Marxist “Haves”--those who have stolen all of our freedom, liberty and our money--and the “Have Nots.” Those are the rest of us.

ACORN is Inside the Gates

ACORN is inside the gates.

A bill introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature to investigate the activities of the controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- ACORN -- is stalled in the powerful State Government Committee.

The chairman, State Representative Babette Josephs, a Philadelphia Democrat, is a member of ACORN.

The revelation of Chairman Joseph's ACORN ties came in a now long-forgotten April 3, 2008 hearing of the House State Government Committee. The hearing took place at 9:05 in the morning in room 205 of the Ryan Office Building in the State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg. The purpose of the hearing was to discuss the upcoming (April 22nd) Pennsylvania primary election preparations with Governor Ed Rendell's Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pedro Cortes. As Cortes was being questioned by Committee members, there was this exchange, released in the official Committee transcript, between Berks County (Reading) Representative Carl Mantz, a Republican, and Chairman Josephs:

REPRESENTATIVE MANTZ: Yes. In my own county, there have been news reports in my county, Berks County, Lehigh County, in my district and also Philadelphia, about allegations respecting the activities of the ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. And allegations have been made that ACORN and its employees have submitted fraudulent voter registrations. Number one , I guess my question is, is it legal for Pennsylvania, in this state, to compensate individuals or voters, each voter registration that a person -- I understand that that's apparently -- I don't believe that's -- I see Al Masland has left, and I apologize. I'm not as familiar with the statute in that respect.

CHAIR JOSEPHS: Mr. Mantz, we can get the answer to you,but I would like to say that I am a member of ACORN, and they do not do that.

On July 30th of 2009, Representative Stephen Barrar, a Republican from Chester and Delaware counties who does not serve on Josephs' State Government Committee, introduced House Resolution 426. The bill, referred to the State Government Committee, calls for a formal request from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the state attorney general to investigate ACORN. Josephs, in her role as chairman, controls the committee. The bill has gone nowhere, leading to the belief by legislative sources that Josephs is using her power as chairman of the State Government Committee to protect the controversial group of which she herself is a member.

White House Distances Itself From ACORN

Days after the Census Bureau announced it would cut ties with the organizing group ACORN, and barely 24 hours after the Senate voted to withdraw funding from the activist group, the White House expressed support for measures to hold the group accountable for "unacceptable" behavior.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs alluded to video posted on the site BigGovernment.com showing ACORN employees giving advice to individuals posing as sex traffickers.

"Obviously, the conduct you see on those tapes is completely unacceptable. I think everyone would agree to that. The administration takes accountability extremely seriously," Gibbs said.

A couple of nights ago Sean Hannity asked the couple who created the videos why they were only releasing one tape a day. They evaded the question a little bit. However, it's becoming clear that these people may be much more brilliant than anyone gives them credit for.

Sure, it takes a little creative thinking to come up with the idea to pose as sex traffickers as they did and create the tapes. But if these tapes had all been released at once, the response from the left would have been simply that this is "gotcha journalism" and it would have been left at that. By releasing the tapes as they have, and by Fox making this a headline story, the left, including the White House can neither dismiss nor ignore the tapes.

A few on the left were trying to make this out as a few isolated instances when the tapes first came out. They were also trying to make the case that a few "conservative right-wingers" were simply trying to tarnish Obama. As the tapes come out one by one, it becomes impossible to ignore them or excuse them. No matter how much they'd like to try, this has become a major scandal that the left cannot run away from. And every day it becomes bigger, uglier and nastier.

The Bigotry of Low Expectations

NPR finally made mention of the recent ACORN scandal. (Charlie Gibson still hasn't heard of it, though.) Credit Frank James at NPR for covering the story in a manner that puts most of the left-wing establishment media to shame. James makes the following accurate observation:

"Instead of wasting funds on lawsuits, ACORN might want to consider doing more intensive training of its workers and testing them with its own undercover testers."

Unfortunately, he concludes his story by indulging in what George Bush (or one of his speech writers) so eloquently referred to as "the soft bigotry of low expectation."

"It's also important to keep in mind that ACORN's workers are coming from the same low-income neighborhoods the organization serves, with all that entails - poor schools, high crime and the sorts of social problems that have been documented for decades.

So the flaws conservatives are pointing out about ACORN are not so much about problems associated with that organization per se, but more about the problems of being poor and minority in urban America."

It's true that the neglect of inner city school children is morally wrong and possibly criminal. But it is arguably the systemic root of much of what ails America. The liberal government policies dating back three generations have served to warehouse the poor while creating financial incentives to underachieve. Welfare policies encourage the poorest to forgo savings, to ignore career and college ambitions and have multiple children outside of marriage.

Even so, it is sick and condescending to assume that the poor lack any moral compass. Do you have to be middle class to know that importing children for the purpose of child prostitution, cheating on taxes, lying to the government and abusing people, particularly children is wrong?

Such lack of expectations born of liberal guilt is tragic but telling.

This isn't The Wire. These aren't street level drug dealers at the mercy of a politically confused drug war. These are employees of a government funded organization who blithely conspire to rape little girls and to violate tax laws. And I do thank you for pointing out who trained them. Yes, ACORN did. But why fail to mention that this organization has yet to apologize, or to thank the film crew for bringing this horror to their attention so they can fix the problem?

If we can't expect coverage from the left wing establishment media, could we at least expect their outrage?