Interview: Glenn (Beck) Talks With The Maverick (You May Be Paying 4% of your mortgage to ACORN!)

The Glenn Beck Show ^ | October 14, 2008 - 13:08 ET | Glenn Beck

[pillut48]

"GLENN: In the House and the Senate, the President signed it, a bill over the summer actually gives now 4% of our mortgages. If you sign a new mortgage, 4% goes to fund ACORN. How did this happen?"

[Terry Mross]

And he has all that time to think about his vote when he suspended his campaign.

[IM2MAD]

in the 300 Mortgage bill this summer.

Do you have the number of the bill? I’d like to read it for myself.

[WarEagle]

McCain has proved time and again that he does not give a flying crap about the Republican Party. If he did, McCain-Feingold would not have happened, he would have listened to the base on immigration and not given us the finger, and he sure as h - e - double hockey sticks wouldn't have voted to fund ACORN.

He's a "MAVERICK", meaning he sticks up for himself first, last, and always.

While his being President is infinitely preferable to Obambi, his Presidency will do absolutely zippo for the Republican Party and the conservative movement. He will appoint Supreme Court justices based on some kind of ideal of bi-partisanship and fairness, rather than his promises made to us during this campaign.

My minimalist expectation is that he will preside over an aggressive foreign policy which will protect us and our interests from terrorism, and that is all.

This sucks so bad....

[According2RecentPollsAirIsGood]

George Bush's biggest failures have little to do with his policies, most of which are exactly right on. His biggest failure is his incompetence behind the bully pulpit.

Thank you. Exactly what I've been saying for years. That incompetence--manifested as not fighting back, not even getting angry, and letting the media control will all perception of his administration--has and will continue to hurt us more than any misguided policies he enacted. And McCain, sadly, is no better, possibly worse. God help us. We still have to vote for him, regardless. It'll just take a few more drinks on election day.

[Domandred]

How would the outcome be any different?

McCain will still do pretty much nothing and end up being the last man standing because of all the infighting.

Granted if we went back and did the primaries knowing then what we do now we’d get Ron Paul because suddenly he doesn’t sound so crazy anymore.

[freekitty]

Gee, you know how McCain is. Let's skip across the aisle and make peace. We don't need mediators; we need leaders.

[mwl8787]

Actually, besides aggressive execution of WOT, the place where McCain will keep faith with conservatives will be USSC judicial appointments - he will appoint Roberts/Alito types. He knows that he cannot mess up here without having the base abandon him. That said, lower court appointments will be more liberal, consistent with ongoing horse trading with Senators.

[pillut48]

???

What’s erratic about answering the question Beck had with an answer that refers back to the same question/comment??

[newheart]

Nothing is erratic about answering the question with an answer that refers back. Senator McCain has a developed a tendency (one I recognize because I do it too much myself as this parenthetical phrase demonstrates) of putting too many qualifiers, disclaimers and asides in the middle of his sentences. Sometimes he wanders back to the original point of the sentence and sometimes he doesn’t. He sounds more like Obama in that regard than the straight-talk guy from the Saddleback debate.

Here is an example:
“ I know this, that if something doesn’t turn around, and again I go back to a whole lot of aspects of our financial system but what was the fact that lit the fire was home values and home loan mortgages and that has in my view.”

That is an unmitigated train wreck of a sentence.

Or as I suggested earlier, I wouldn’t misunderestimate the possibility that the transcriber had an agenda.

[freespirited]

I saw a GOP congresscritter on TV yesterday talking about this, I think on Glenn’s show.

It’s a fee of $420 on every mortgage that will go to ACORN and similar groups. Sounded like a pool of money from which a number of groups get funds.

Legislation written by Barney Frank.

Nobody knows a thing about this. Should be a national scandal.

[American_Centurion]

The one who understands finance and economics

Yet completely ignores them in his governmental role and does the liberal thing anyway. That one?

[pillut48]

Oh, I thought you meant the subject manner—can’t say much because I’m not a linear thinking and my grammar isn’t always the best either, even though I’m a retired teacher! LOL. :-)

[dalereed]

“What’s erratic about answering the question Beck had with an answer that refers back to the same question/comment??”

Right out of the communist play book, answer a question with a question!

[newheart]

Yup. I’m sure the Senator means well. But then so does GWB. And yet they can be painfully hard to follow. For my money, give me Newt (another ‘retired’ teacher. :-)

[Old Professer]

I thought those slush funds were taken out of the final bill?

Anyone know for sure?

[SoConPubbie]

ROFL. And yet we continue to nominate them. We nominate people who are not stupid, but they are inarticulate. George Bush's biggest failures have little to do with his policies, most of which are exactly right on. His biggest failure is his incompetence behind the bully pulpit.

Three really big issues seem to contradict your statement:

1. Illegal Aliens
2. Spending
3. Mortgage Bailout


Besides those really big boulders, you may be correct.

[SoConPubbie]

Oh, so Huckabee and the Born Agains can get rid of the evil non-Christian Morman again? The one who understands finance and economics.

You mean the one who was in support of the Socialist Bailout Bill? That one?

[calex59]

Really? I don’t want a do over, because even though McCain leaves a lot to be desired in a candidate no one else would have picked Sarah for VP. Be glad we got her, she is going to win this election for us. BTW, I think this article is full of it.

[SoConPubbie]

Actually, besides aggressive execution of WOT, the place where McCain will keep faith with conservatives will be USSC judicial appointments - he will appoint Roberts/Alito types. He knows that he cannot mess up here without having the base abandon him. That said, lower court appointments will be more liberal, consistent with ongoing horse trading with Senators.

What about John McCain's Maverick record (including saying he got the message about Amnesty and securing the border and then turning around and telling La Raza that on day one of his administration he would be re-pushing his Comprehensive Immigration Reform again) would lead you to believe that 1. He really intends to keep his word 2. He can keep his word with an overwhelmingly Democrat Congress?

Furthermore, given his penchant for reaching across the aisle, why does anyone think he will fulfill this promise?

[Kevmo]

Duncan Hunter

Good enough place to bump this thread.