1-James Taranto calls for a criminal investigation:
The Wall Street Journal urges the U.S. Justice Department to undertake a criminal investigation of Acorn. This column echoes that call, although we wonder if the Obama administration is compromised here. The president, who as a candidate touted his background as a “community organizer,” has extensive ties to Acorn. In February 2008, the Acorn Political Action Committee endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton, and Obama’s campaign Web site, Organizing for America, boasted of the candidate’s support for the group…
2-Should HR 32oo become law, ACORN will be the “navigator” of exchange-sponsored public plans.
Coming to a neighborhood near you: nonprofit health coops administered by ACORN designed to use state Medicaid programs to usher in single payer health care.
A Tea Party conspiracy theory? Hardly. While the catfight over the cost of reform and the nature of the public plan escalated as details unfolded, no one paid attention to what the harmless sounding exchanges actually do. …
(Via The Astute Bloggers)
3-White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs called the actions of ACORN employees unacceptable.
Gibbs said the Census Bureau decided that ACORN could not assist the group in meeting “the bureau’s goal of achieving a fair and accurate count in 2010″ and that some other agencies are evaluating their relationship with the group. “We constantly evaluate to ensure that any grantee is living up to what has to happen in order to fulfill that grant application.”
He pointed out that “previous administrations” had awarded grants to ACORN either through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Stronger rhetoric has come out of the White House against law abiding citizens exercising their first amendment rights. And as usual Gibbs had to bring up “previous administrations.”
Let’s just hope #1 comes true before #2, because we know #3 isn’t going to do anything about it.
