Posted on 09/17/2009 11:33:12 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
The House, in a motion to recommit attached to the student loan bill, has voted overwhelmingly to de-fund ACORN. It was a bipartisan vote, with more than 300 members voting for the measure. (We'll get the full numbers/vote breakdown shortly.) This goes further than the Senate did; the Senate took money out of one bill. This is to de-fund the group completely -- for any money the House would appropriate. *** UPDATE *** House Minority Whip Eric Cantor's office just sent around this statement: “ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to fund this corrupt organization. All federal ties should be severed with ACORN, and the FBI should investigate its activity. This united Republican effort to defund ACORN is a victory for the rule of law and taxpayers across the country.”
(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...
This is hugh and series.
Whoa, finally some real news. Think MSM will cover?
Bravo!!
Push it through while the issue is hot, or the Dems will obfuscate, delay, and quietly kill it.
Keep up the pressure! Remember what Alinsky said.
Woohoo! Well done Glenn Beck!!!
ACORN has got over $50 million since the early 1990’s.
To bad it doesn’t also ask for repayment.
It is just a drop in the bucket thought when seen against federal/Obama spending.
There is obviously quite a bit of tension between the President and the Congressional Democrats. These kinds of things could be a lot of fun to watch unfold over the term...
If this is the final word on this, then I’m very happy. In the meantime, I am very confused. :(
DO NOT let up. DO NOT stop to celebrate. DO NOT look as this as a victory, but as a beach head. KEEP moving. KEEP pushing. It’s scorched earth time!
Hearing to Rush describe this bill, it appears that it allows for a government take-over of student loans. I suppose that the rats would pass it, regardless, but I guess in the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, Republicans added the Acorn part. So, I’m happy Acorn is getting de-funded, but mad that it allows government to expand its power to student loans.
75 nays. Will be interesting to see who they were.
In a few months are conservatives going to be bashing their reps for voting for a socialistic program?
Chicks comin home to roost — underage ones, smuggled in from Central America, that is.
To ACORN I say, consider your beeber stuned!. Good day, sir!
You’re merciless.
I like that in a person....:)
Don’t forget to de-fund Community Organizations International and all of the other Socialist/Marxist fronts connected with Wade Rathke, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, SEIU, ACORN, the House “Progressive Caucus”, at al.
nothing on the cnn news site yet....they are asking is glen beck is bad for america.
WoW! This is big.
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