Posted on 07/01/2009 9:08:10 AM PDT by DaveyB
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has had a change of heart regarding his earlier decision to investigate the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
He now says he is no longer planning to investigate ACORN, which is under fire for vote-fraud accusations in last year's presidential election. But why the change of heart? Conyers, faithfully adhering to the blame-casting game that has long held sway in Congress, weakly and obtusely laid the fault for this recent reversal at the feet of purposely unidentified “powers that be.”
"The powers that be decided against it," Conyers told the Washington Times last week.
But what powers, specifically? Who's wields enough clout to get the powerful committee chairman, who's been in Congress for over 40 years, to reverse himself? Conyers would not say. "The chairman declined to elaborate, shrugging off questions about who told him how to run his committee and give the Democrat-allied group a pass," the Washington Times reported. continued at link
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Well color me surprised!
I guess he got his payoff from TARP/acorn.
Lead by example....
save our Constitution!
Should we be surprised by this? When is this country going to wake up?????
“Powers that be...”
Getting warmer, who is the puppeteer behind the Democratic Party? The Dems were always left-center, but their recent swing to the radical left is astonishing. I know this much: it is not accidental.
Look for the Justice Department to arrive at a sweetheart plea deal with Mrs. Conyers in about, I’d say, 2 months.
Surprised No!
(we are not naive)
Poor little Conyers is not getting a lot of good press lately, what with this and his wife pleading guilty to bribery charges.
And yet he will be voted in by the people of Detroit like clockwork no matter how corrupt he is, all due to his skin color.
Obviously, he has been "strong-armed" into stopping the investigation.
The man is an abject coward if he does not name names as to who is calling the shots on this one.
Conyers is covering his arse, among a load of others, by his CONTINUED thwarting in having ACORN thoroughly investigated.
Well, well. “Powers to Be” has some power indeed.
I wonder if this “Powers to Be” also has the power to fire Inspector Generals.
Forget the constitution, we’re talking about real power here, folks.
Hmm..it’s time for Rasmussen to do some national polling. Lets see what the American voters feel about the Democrat’s lack of interesting in ACORN.
I can't believe Conyers was capable of making such an admission.
Hmm..it’s time for Rasmussen to do some national polling. Lets see what the American voters feel about the Democrat’s lack of interest in ACORN.
Didn't his wife just get a plea bargain that will result in no jail time? Hmmmmmm
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James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Rocky Anderson, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Paulette Cole, US Rep John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Senator Mike Gravel, Andre Gregory, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Jonathan Kozol, Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Robin Meyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, John Nichols, US Rep. Major Owens, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Michelle Phillips, Harold Pinter, Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Richard Serra, Jeff Sharlet, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more who have already joined us.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)
*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration
*Organizes college and high-school students
*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.
And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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On Oct 5, 2006, Democrat Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, the same guy who is leading the 'investigation' of the Bush administration, gave a friggin SPEECH to the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization, a known front for the Revolutionary Communist Party!
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3801&Itemid=69
Where's the press on this issue?
Well, they'll all come a running if they catch a Repubican jaywalking.
You nailed it!
Conyers was told to drop the ACORN probe or his wife will be prosecuted and forced to talk about the sweetheart deals she got via her husband.....ending his political career.
He drops the probe....she gets a deal and stays silent.
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