Shut Off ACORN's Spigot

NY Post ^ | September 16, 2009 | Editorial

[Scanian]

It's time to draw the line on ACORN. In fact, long past time.

The group deserves not one penny of public funding. For any reason.

And the recent outrageous videos -- showing its employees giving advice on committing housing fraud to filmmakers who claimed to be looking to open a brothel -- are only the latest reason.

Yes, some officials are waking up.

* State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said yesterday that he'd flag any state money going to the radical group.

* Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the Brooklyn DA began probes.

* City Council Speaker Christine Quinn suspended council payouts pending the DA investigation.

But there's more to do -- much more

[SF_Redux]

I wonder how many of the acorn employees are scare poopless they are going to end up on Beck’s show now

[American Constitutionalist]

Hope they are singing like a Canary

[whitedog57]

Fat chance.

Obama is the de-facto President of ACORN, AFL-CIO, SEIU, La Raza and the Black Panthers. NOT the President of the USA.

Congress and Obama LOVE Acorn. They are a corrupt criminal enterprise just like the Democratic Party.

Do you think that the same people that censured Wilson for one word but WON’T do a thing about the corruption, fraud and felonies of Charlie Rangel will do anything about their favorite thugs and activists?

[Lawgvr1955]

Fat chance.

True.

Cuomo and the Brooklyn DA will not find anything wrong. They both could be pro-wrestling refs. They will look at clear violations and fail to see anything.

[DNME]

While we’re at it, how about incorporating the “loser pays” rule into the court system and cutting off the air supply for the ACLU, too?

[Scanian]

There are a lot of things about the British system of law and government that stink. “Loser pays,” however, is not one of them—it is a good idea.

Another British institution that I’d like to see transplanted to the US is a “President’s Questions” to match the “PM’s Questions” in Commons in which the Prime Minister is routinely torn limb from limb by ravening MPs.

Obama would be brought to tears under such a system. Our politicians are much too thin-skinned and could stand to learn about toughness and accountability from the parliamentary system of the UK.