House GOP weighs defunding ACORN for 13th time even though it hasn't existed since 2010

[Cali_Democrat]

WASHINGTON -- When House GOP leaders abruptly shelved a bill to fund standard federal transportation and housing programs last Wednesday, one of the legislation's few uncontroversial provisions was a section banning funds for the anti-poverty group ACORN. Had Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) been able to pass the bill, it would have marked the 13th time that Republicans have voted to block federal funding for ACORN since the GOP took over the lower chamber in 2011.

Oddly, however, ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, does not exist. And it did not exist at any time when the House GOP has held a vote on ACORN's access to government monies -- the group disbanded in the spring of 2010.

Just why, exactly, the House GOP keeps voting to ban funding for an organization that was extinguished more than three years ago remains something of a mystery, and the subject of Democratic ridicule.

"Word is the majority will also prohibit foreign aid to the Ottoman Empire this year," a Democratic congressional aide snarked to HuffPost. (Like ACORN, the Ottoman Empire does not exist.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/gop-acorn-defunding_n_3690753.html

Clowns!!!

[uponit7771]

1. This is one of their man rationalizations of why rMoney lost !!!

[LongTomH]

2. Senor Quixote, put down that lance!

It's just a windmill!!!

[Harmony Blue]

3. These Republicans are idiots

[Thinkingabout]

4. I laugh when I hear these dumb votes coming out the House, GOP always complain about Nancy

Pelosi but when Boehner's House votes on these items we know who dumb is. Pelosi would have shut this down, the orange man is not doing well.

[ornotna]

5. I hear they're also going to defund the League Of Nations

knuckle heads.

[athenasatanjesus]

19. They should also consider defunding the Justice league.

[Scurrilous]

6. LOL

Braindead droolers.

[sakabatou]

7. They don't fucking care anymore

They'll just do it by motor memory. If they have any.

[YOHABLO]

8. Superlatives come to mind: dumb, dumber, dumbest ... House of Repugs in history of U.S.A

[NastyRiffraff]

9. Defund the Crusades!

Are they actually looking for ways to waste time and taxpayer money?

(Quick answer: Yes)

[NewJeffCT]

12. And the Spanish Inquisition

nobody would expect that!

[RC]

27. The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition killed a lot of people

They'd vote more money for that.

[Rex]

10. Anything to keep from doing a real job or help keep the country going.

All they know how to do is fuck things up.

[eggplant]

11. That's it, no more foreign aid to Freedonia. n/t

[Peacetrain]

13. You cannot make this stuff up.. it is so bizarre..

Do people get little bugs in their brains? I know that sounds awful, but voting to defund something that does not exist, .. there is something seriously amiss with people. I think politics are starting to make people unhinged. Surely they know that it does not exist.. and yet they are doing it again?

[JHB]

23. It's what their inFOXicated voters sent them to Washington to do

FOX and other RW media built ACORN up into a boogeyman, managed to destroy it with a bogus scandal, and have been playing the "it's not dead yet" drum ever since (because the people at the local level who did its work didn't just dry up and blow away).

The vote is a way to grandstand for the True Believers whereas most people won't even know about it, or care if they did.

[Peacetrain]

24. I hate to say this.. but we have become a nation of mush-heads

Last night I turned on a show called honey boo boo.. and the channel next to it had some guy grilling at a rib shack.. and up and down the stations locally, there are programs with people in them (reality I guess) who could not fight their way out of a brown paper bad. And yep you are so right, the RW media, just outright lies to them, and they do not look beyond their own prejudices, and they believe the stuff.

Its amazing

[JHB]

28. I was chagrined that the HuffPost article felt the need to expicitly mention...

...that the Ottoman Empire didn't exist anymore either.

[Jim Lane]

32. Unfortunately, HuffPo's decision to mention that was completely correct. (n/t)

[brooklynite]

14. Yo know if they cut out some votes to repeal ObamaCare...

ACRON defunding might be ablt to catch up.

[L0oniX]

15. Practice makes perfect usually ...but not with them. n/t

[Thav]

16. Keep defunding until it no longer exists!

Continue to defund! Defund some more! Keep defunding until it closes its doors! They won't stop until they've won!

[Heathen57]

17. And this is what they call good government.

I'm waiting for them to exhume the body of FDR so they can put him in front of Issa's committee so they can grill him for getting us out of the depression with all his socialism.

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, my rather expansive, slightly hairy butt!!!!

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Judge us by what we repeal, says Boner.

So that's 40 for commie pinko Obamacare, 13 for commie pinko ACORN -- why, that's 53 REPEAL VOTES! See? We're doing exactly what we promised!

And their brain-dead base will buy it. You watch.

[ThoughtCriminal]

20. Maybe if they vote to defund "The Army of the Potomac" 30 or 40 times

The Confederacy can win and everything will be back to way the Teabaggers really want it.

[Revanchist]

21. Next up, the Republicans complain

that we don't have an embassy in the city of Constantinople.

[gtar100]

22. Because they had such a good time doing it the first time, they want to relive that magic moment.

This shows exactly what is in their heart of hearts... nothing but lust for power. They enjoy winning the most when they make others suffer.

If demons exist, they exist in republicans.

[Arkansas Granny]

25. They must think these actions appeal to their base, kinda like voting to repeal ACA 39 or 40 times.

The Republican party hasn't moved forward in so long that they think status quo equals progress.

[jb5150]

31. That's exactly it ....

these are just buzz-words to get their base riled up.

[ladjf]

26. Morons. nt

[Jamaal510]

29. They're trying to freeze something that is already frozen. eom

[pam4water]

30. Sad part is a lot of there base will fall for this.

[drynberg]

33. There should be a similar charge that is called "wasting police time" for law makers just wasting

Our Time, Opportunity, and Money. These a-holes need to be accountable for wasting a chance to lessen this load of shit we are dealing with right now, no?

[Oldtimeralso]

34. I Demand That We Defund...

The worldwide terrorist organization known as the Roman empire, after all they killed Jesus and several other judeo Christian leaders