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ACORN's Stimulus
ACORN's Stimulus
With a new president ensconced in the White House, it's time to roll out the goodies for loyal supporters in left-of-center political advocacy groups such as ACORN. The latest economic...
The Stimulus: Still Popular After All These Weeks
fivethirtyeight.com — I've seen it asserted, assumed or alleged in many places that the stimulus package is hemorrhaging public... support and might become something of an albatross around the Obama administration's neck. While I don't doubt that the stimulus could become ... (more) The Stimulus: Still Popular After All These Weeks
Obama Goes to Capitol to Lobby G.O.P. on Stimulus
Obama Goes to Capitol to Lobby G.O.P. on Stimulus
nytimes.com — In a rare move, the president was meeting with the Republican conference in an effort to draw... support for his $825 billion economic stimulus plan. > (more) Obama Goes to Capitol to Lobby G.O.P. on Stimulus
Obama calls meeting with top Democrats on stimulus | U.S.
reuters.com — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing opposition from Republican lawmakers to parts of his economic recovery plan, President Barack... Obama called Democratic Congressional leaders to a meeting on Monday to drive home his message of urgency. With hundreds of ... (more) Obama calls meeting with top Democrats on ...
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ObamACORN payback: It’s still in there
Michelle Malkin — ... purposes of this paragraph qualified local housing providers shall be nonprofit organizations with demonstrated capabilities in real estate development or acquisition and rehabilitation or property management of single- or multi-family homes, or local or state governments or instrumentalities of such governments: Provided further, That qualified local housing providers shall be expected to utilize and leverage additional local nonprofit, governmental, for-profit and private resources: Matthew Vadum points out a few other goodies targeted to liberal non-profits that bring the ...

Inmates in charge of the asylum in DC
American Thinker — ... , presumably as a reward for all those campaign dollars sent the way of the Democrats ). ACORN, which is close to Barack Obama and many other Democrats, and tarnished by sit ins and voter fraud, looks to be a winner .

From Meccania to Atlantis Part 7 – Drenched to the Bone
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — ... The porkulus bill (pork +”stimulus”) includes, among many items fit only for late night comedy acts, provisos for $4+ billions to “stimulate” the morbidly obese and truculent members of ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN richly deserves the prize not only for helping Mr. Obama to the White House through a massive, nation-wide campaign of voter registration fraud, but also for having done so much to intimidate U.S. lenders and politicians to dole out real estate mortgages to unemployed people with no assets but with compelling skin tones. ...

ACORN: We have a right to take over foreclosed houses.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Excuse me: it’s $5.9 billion dollars’ worth of your money that’s going to be accessible to ACORN, and I bet that they can’t wait. Check out ...

Morley Safer meets Sacha Baron Cohen again
Power Line — ... up shop with underage girls from El Salvador. O'Keefe and his lady friend again found the friendly folks at ACORN eager to help and, well, liberal with their advice. Video of O'Keefe's visit with ACORN is here. One might almost get the idea that ACORN is some kind of a criminal enterprise. Don't they give Pulitzer Prizes for exposé like this? And since the Obama administration is so big into clawbacks, why won't it claw back the federal stimulus money targeted for ACORN?

More on Friends-Of-O national prostitution ring
Cold Fury — ... activists posing as a mortgage-seeking pimp and prostitute. “You can’t say what you do for a living.” In an unrelated outrage, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud during the 2008 presidential election by helping unqualified voters to register. Unrelated my ass. ACORN is a criminal enterprise, and nothing more — one that their good friend in the Oval Office (which I suppose we might as well start calling the Oral Office again, after these revelations) has seen fit to bestow billions of dollars of “stimulus” scam funds on. A reward for “services rendered,” you might ...

Hear No ACORN, Speak No ACORN, See No ACORN
Moonbattery — ... corruption and degeneracy that characterizes the nation's largest community activist group. In all his excessive media face time, Obama has never had much to say about ACORN until he was finally forced to call for some vague investigation — despite killing one recently — and let loose with this whopper: I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money. Who else would try to funnel literally $BILLIONS of our money into this depraved syndicate of left-wing radicals if not the former ...

ACORN Closing Down 40% of its Offices
Moonbattery — ... . ACORN's questionable voter tactics secured a margin of Obamacrat victory in normally sane states like North Carolina and Indiana. Despite (or perhaps because of) multiple allegations of and indictments for voter fraud, ACORN secured millions, perhaps millions, in the Spendulus package as a payoff from grateful Obamacrats. ...

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