The deal filled with pork and earmarks (including monies for ACORN) and the 700 billion bailout bill are two different bills. The first already passed.
Are you sure about that? I had heard numerous times over the last day or so that the ACORN financing was to come out of the “returns” taxpayers were supposed to get as a result of the 700 Billion buying up these bad mortgages. That was part of the reason (besides it being left wing organizations) that people were so ticked about it. The Dems were already spending the supposed return we (taxpayers) were supposed to earn in the Paulson plan...
I do know there was a 650 Billion dollar spending bill passed the other day (nice, eh?), but if I’m not totally mistaken the ACORN funding is DIRECTLY tied to the Paulson Plan.