Posted on 02/01/2010 7:08:11 PM PST by kristinn
Obama and terrorist support group Code Pink announced today they are shutting down their Washington, D.C. headquarters due to lack of interest by their fellow leftists in protesting the Democrat-run Congress and the Obama administration.
Code Pink has been playing the inside-outside game of political theater since Obama was inaugurated. While making a show of protesting his administration, Code Pink has been meeting with Obama and working with the White House.
Since March 2007, the group has maintained its D.C. headquarters in a five bedroom row house in a residential neighborbood on Capitol Hill. The group was protected by the D.C. government which allowed Code Pink to commit numerous zoning and fire safety code violations that have gotten other groups evicted under similar situations.
The house was zoned single family residential, yet Code Pink, which is incorporated as a non-profit tax exempt organization, operated it as a corporate lobbying office, boarding house and kitchen for transients. The group lied to D.C. housing inspectors who investigated complaints about the operation of the house by saying only five people lived at the house and that those named on the lease were responsible for the rent.
In their statement about closing down the 'Pink House,' Code Pink says that the cost of maintaining and paying the rent was getting to be too much of a burden for the group:
The costs of maintaining the house and paying the rent have become an overwhelming burden for CODEPINK and we must now move on from the house into the next course of action.
We have declined our annual lease renewal, given notice to our wonderful landlady, and the house will close at the end of February.
Code Pink writes that they tried to bring in people from other groups for short term stays to cover the bills, but that it wasn't enough to make up for the declining interest in protesting Obama and the Democrats in D.C.:
In the summer of 2008, as the Bush era came to a close and activists around the country turned their attention to the upcoming presidential election traffic at the Pink House slowed down, and after the Inauguration, throughout Obama’s first year in office in 2009, both because of the economic downturn and the shift in politics, with voters expectant and eager for Obama to make a change, activist guests slowed to a halt. So we opened the doors at the house to ally organizations and group delegations, and hosted youth activists for green jobs conferences, young women from the Lower East Side Girls Club in NYC, faith-based groups and others. Then we opened up the rooms to individuals who could help us cover the expenses and left one bedroom for visiting activists to stay.
The D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com held several freeps outside Code Pink's Capitol Hill headquarters in the Fall of 2007 to call attention to their lawbreaking and the failure of the D.C. government to respond to a complaint filed back in May.
The first freep provoked several bogus calls to the D.C. police and fire departments.
The protests got some mentions in the media, but between Code Pink's lies and the D.C. government looking the other way no action was taken to enforce the law other than a half-hearted inspection.
Code Pink was given bunkbeds custom-made for the house that gave it the capacity to sleep about 25 people. On big protest weekends, they packed upward of 50 people in the house.
In their announcement, Code Pink brags that one of the leftist luminaries who stayed at the Pink House was Van Jones, the former Obama administration Green Jobs Czar who was forced to resign after his radical anti-American politics was exposed by the conservative media.
Jones signed the same 9/11 Truther petition as top Obama funder and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.
Code Pink will still have a presence in D.C. as two of its co-founders maintain residences there. Medea Benjamin splits her time between her home in San Francisco and a Capitol Hill rowhouse she recently purchased that is pocated just around the corner from the Code Pink house at 712 5th St., NE. In recent years, Gael Murphy has shared a house in Northwest D.C. with her girlfriend.
While Code Pink has had setbacks on undermining the war effort, save for helping elect Obama and a Democratic-run Congress, they have broadened their reach to working with anti-American heads of government, state sponsors of terrorism and terrorist groups, as well as President Obama and Democrat senators and congressmen.
Code Pink has most recently worked with the Taliban, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Obama administration.
Washington will still be bustling with moonbats in the coming months. Cindy Sheehan will be camping out at the Washington Monument and the commies from ANSWER will be protesting the liberation of Iraq on the seventh anniversary of the U.S. led overthrow of ANSWER and Code Pink ally Saddam Hussein.
Code Pink's multi-millionairess co-founder Jodie Evans can afford to pay the rent at the Pink House, as could Medea Benjamin, but they obviously do not want to put their own money on the line. When the Pink House first opened, Roll Call reported that Code Pink took food donated for the homeless in D.C. to stock their kitchen:
Food comes in part from donations — a local activist who collects bread for the needy also helps supply CODEPINKers. "We've been needy lately," Fairooz explains.
That's one good thing about the Code Pink House closing down, D.C.'s homeless will have more to eat now that the leftist leeches won't be stealing it from them anymore.
I agree with you 100%!
Belly fat.
Was that totally necessary? I’m trying to eat....
bump!
These old bags need to be at home baking cookies, making beds and cleaning snotty noses.
They know not of what they do.
I remember when New Zealand elected 60s radical and hardcore Leftist Helen Clark as Prime Minister. All the Left-wing activist groups that had daily harassed and plagued the previous conservative PM disbanded stating that “government oversight was no longer required”.
It may be photoshoped but it is true concerning their point of view.
Interesting post, and it makes a lot of sense. You’re right.
Speaking of stink, can you imagine what that house smells like after the rotation of “activists” have been sleeping, eating and possibly showering there? Gross!
I’m looking for a place...I might consider moving in, but before I do, it will need an exterminator to rid any unwanted rats, a painter to cover the stains of hate, and an exorcist.
That's one of the better jokes you have ever told.
Brump, bum, bum
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