Conservatives 25-year goal of defunding the left revealed by ACORN controversy »
Posted By Tumultuous 1 month ago in Political OpinionWhen Michele Bachman crowed in September that the exposure of alleged illegal activity by the anti-poverty group ACORN was just the start of a campaign to "defund the left," she may have revealed more about current Republican strategy than she intended.
“Defunding the left is going to be so easy,” Bachmann told the audience at a conservative conference, “and it’s going to solve so many of our problems.”
The Senate and House had just voted to cut off ACORN's federal funding in what CBS/AP called "a GOP-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing group" that followed the release of video showing ACORN employees apparently endorsing illegal activities, The bills passed by lopsided majorities, with many Democrats joining Republicans, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told a news conference, "We have to have our own scrutiny of an organization with an allegation of this kind against it."
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Progressive1 month ago
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The initial Congressional defunding of ACORN was scheduled to expire at the end of October, however, causing Bachman to warn a bloggers' conference at the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, "This is the biggest trick or treat. On November 1 the prohibition will lift." -
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ConquerorWyrm1 month ago
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FTA: "Something that needs to be explored is the roots of ACORN in the 1960s," Vadum continued. "It grew out of the radical welfare rights movement. And the idea behind that was that not enough people were on welfare and that you needed to pack the welfare rolls with as many people as possible in order to overwhelm the governments -- the various levels of government -- and cause social chaos. ... I guess you could say it was a Marxist-anarchist idea."
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Is this Vadum absolutely nuts? The motives he ascribes to other people are comic-book villain at best...and paranoid to boot...also, completely lacking in logical coherence...
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"Fox is the only television network that has taken much of an interest in covering the ACORN scandal which some commentators say is bigger than Watergate"
Um, that "some commentators" are employees of the very station that is the only one reporting this fake news. These "some commentators" are ONLY found on FoxNews...and it is disingenuous for this station to attempt to pretend objectivity when they themselves are the instigators and activists in this story. Lies, lies and more lies... -
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philbrick1 month ago
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The many positive aspects of ACORN and why the right-wing nuts can't stand em'.
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ameliog1 month ago
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Going after these groups as a continuing strategy to defund the Democratic party - no big secret there. It's been the case for decades. Without any real ideas other than transferring more treasury to the wealthy and corporations, the GOP has nothing else they can do to get votes. Anything to suppress votes, because high voter participation works against them. Sad to see that this is all the right wing can do.
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NoWayMan1 month ago
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well, yeah.
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did anyone actually think the GOP would give a dam about acorn if they weren't getting people registered to vote?
the GOP's goal here is to shut down any and all opportunities for under-represented segments of our society from having a voice.
you'd have to be really naive or in massive denail to think anything else was going on when it comes to the right's attack on acorn.
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