Posted on 09/15/2009 8:09:19 AM PDT by dangus
A lot of Republicans are in a foamy rage against the grass roots, whom they feel failed to be adequately supportive of the Bush administration, helping the Democrats take over Congress in 2006. A lot are showing up on Free Republic making comments to the effect that Obama's communist regime is what we get when we fail to stand up for the Republican Party. But the fact is that President Obama was merely an employee of sorts of ACORN. President Bush was the one who funded it with millions of dollars of taxpayer funds. President Bush's justice department broke banks' arms to force them to lend money to Alt-A and subprime lenders, ruling that failure to provide equal loan access to illegal alien day laborers at the same rate they gave loans to well-establishd, middle-class, financially sound Americans they would prosecuted for discrimination on the basis of national origin.
The Bush administration's EPA gave ACORN $100,000 for ACORN's Louisiana Environmental Justice Project in 2004. President Bush's Department Housing and Urban Development $8.2 million from 2003 to 2006, and another $1.6 million to other affiliates since 2003. Even the Justice Department gave NYC's ACORN office $136,000.
President Bush's rabid fixation on growing "civil-rights" organizations led directly to the housing boom and burst, as millions of "upside-down" home owners had no money put into their homes, and no identity, so they lost nothing when walking away from their loans as soon as they went under.
President Obama is a radical unlike any ever elected President, but the answer is not to simply vote Republican. Vote conservative. If that means voting Republican, great: there are many conservatives in Congress who deserve re-election. But that doesn't mean voting for liberal Republicans like former Rep. Simmons, running for Senate in Connecticut, Rep. Castle, running for Senate in Delaware, or Rep. Kirk, running for Senate in Illinois. The surest way to destroy America is to settle for Republican socialists, believing that they are more electable than conservatives. All that accomplishes is pushing the center hard to the left, discrediting conservatism, and giving the radical left the cover of "bipartisanship."
The employees of sorts of ACORN are the ones enabling illegal activities.
So what.. we should think that is OK? Because it was started by a republican (or RINO)
WE DONT ACT LIKE DEMOCRAPS
WE THINK BUSH WAS EQUALLY STUPID ON MANY ECONOMIC ISSUES (JUST LIKE HIS IDIOT FATHER RUINED REAGANS LEGACY)
Of course you do, everybody who aspires to be on his payroll loves him!
Keep trolling for Clinton.
Amen to that, anyone who ever thought Bush was a conservative has hopefully realized he wasn’t!
I don’t troll for any politician including “no new taxes bush” and “I never had sex with that woman” Clinton. 95 percent or more of the whole Demopublican lot of psychopathic liars. What is YOUR theory?
As if Conservatives have any love for Baby Bush. We all know he was part of the problem.
You can say that again. The man needs to go down.
Do not take isolated comments on this forum as indicative of what Republican leaders and operatives think. From early 2006 on, there was was much worry in those circles about how the Bush administration's policy mistakes and deviations from conservative principle would affect the enthusiasm and turnout of the Republican base.
You fail Government-101. The President, or the President’s Administration funds nothing. The Congress authorizes and appropriates money.
Reason #79 for why the GOP is a minority in Congress.
Did you quit your education at the third grade? Congress appropriated the funds, allowing the administration to make grants. The Bush Administration gave the grants to ACORN. Oh, and by the way, I refer specifically to 2003-2006 for a reason: Congress was led by the GOP and Bush’s handpicked RINOs led the party apparati (NRSC, RNCC, RNC).
I think we will have a successful third party, sooner rather than later. There is a huge rift in the Republican party right now. Many conservatives and independents no longer trust the Republicans. Look at the current situation, Massive discontent over the Democrats attempts to socialize the country. Yet, the Republican party has been unable to capitalize. This rift has the potential to split the party in two if it widens and deepens.
Don't assume that a third party is going to come from the outside. It could just as easily come from a coalition of fiscally conservative, small government insiders,and that type of third party can succeed. This is how the Republican party came into being in the first place.
Got it.
To try to put the whole thing on Congress alone is silly.
I think the election of 1994 had a little to do with that.
>> So you’re saying that if Pres. Bush had come out and said he was revoking all funds for what the MSM would have broadly called a “poverty organization” he would have been lauded as a hero. <<
No, he just didn’t have to choose ACORN to make the grants to. Good lord, can’t anyone on this thread READ???
Read the article, huh? It was a warning against letting any old socialist with an R after his name slip into office.
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