If ACORN gets its funding stripped because a member tried to help a Prostitute and her Pimp...

[berni_mccoy]

Shouldn't David Vitter and other Republican Congressmen who've had affairs and solicitations with Prostitutes have their funding (i.e. their jobs) stripped?

Just asking? What's fair is fair.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. ACORN is being targeted

because our President once worked with them.

That's all.

The haters will do anything to bring him down, and they think this is how to accomplish it.

So many good people won't get help because ACORN will end up out of business.

All they know how to do is to break things. They don't build anything, or do anything constructive. They just break things.

I'm so tired of the haters.................

[Luminous Animal]

2. The majority of our Democratic Senators sided with the haters.

They don't give a flying fuck about the people who will be harmed by their actions today.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Of course they don't -

ACORN has been perfectly demonized, along with Jeremiah Wright, whose life - for the haters - has been boiled down to a few video clips and sound bites, regardless of all the good he did.

ACORN is now expendable, because, to the public, they're a bad, bad organization that helps pimps and prostitutes to get mortgages for their whorehouses. That's all people know about ACORN, so of course the pols will run as fast as they can to vote against anything that might benefit ACORN, and, consequently, poor people.

I'm out of hope here. This one is so gratuitously mean-spirited and stupid - not to mention that it's yet another example of Democrats caving - I just can't see ever getting over it. Like the final straw....................

[paulsby]

12. they sided with holding people

accountable for their actions.

ACORN screwed itself.

three offices so far.

so, it's not isolated. it's (as i predicted initially) a CULTURE OF CORRUPTION.

i didn't hate ACORN before this. i still don't HATE them, but i certainly do not TRUST them any more

that aint hate. that's looking at facts.

[EFerrari]

6. ACORN was targeted long before Obama's rise because

Republicans have to win elections on the backs of disenfranchised black voters.

[L. Coyote]

7. Exactly. Acorn has not only been attacked, but also set up in the past, because they

register millions of new voters. Rep. Bob Ney was in on this before his jail time, with the Jive F. Turkey, Sr. stuff. Google that name on DU.

[paulsby]

11. who cares?

WHY they are being targeted. i care FAR more about WHAT happened.

i don't care what their political outlook is, as much as i care about what they uncovered.

corruption deserves to be weeded out. sunshine is a great disinfectant.

and weeding out corruption IS constructive. because in order to build good institutions, you have to weed out the bad stuff. it's part of the construction process

[Luminous Animal]

4. In my opinion,

I have no problem with a prostitute declaring his/her income under a creative title to the IRS. All the smart ones do claim income without claiming their actual profession because they want an income trail to secure credit cards, car loans, student loans, and housing loans. Though I don't think that dispensing that advice was a smart thing to do by the ACORN employee; still, it was good advice. But listening to the underage prostitution issue without kicking them out of the office? That's just dumb, dumb, dumb.

[paulsby]

13. dumb?

try fundamentally immoral and unethical.

that's what we call immoral and unethical behavior. calling it dumb is CLASSIC minimization.

if undercover investigators had targeted police in a similar type of sting, people wouldn't be criticizing their MOTIVES and their POLITICS, they'd be outraged.

but because it's ACORN and the investigators are rightwingers (presumably), what ACORN did doesn't matter, or more to your point, it was just dumb.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Doesn't work that way in America.

[Better Today]

8. MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, shouldn't KBR, Xe (Blackwater), and similar for

subpar work and electrocuting our servicemen, and murdering, raping, and torturing Iraqis respectively have their funding cut?

[Corey_Baker08]

9. I worked with ACORN alongside John Edwards Fighting To Raise The Minimum Wage...This is BS

I just cannot believe. It almost seems like a few bad apples ruined the bunch because these right wing fucks pushed and pushed for their demise. I know these people-these are regular people who believe in this issues they champion, there is nothing sinister about fighting for what you believe!!!

This is a sad moment for activist across the country. Another thing ACORN in partnership with John Edwards got the minimum wage raised in many states such as mine right here in Ohio. Now thanks to them not only myself but many hardworking people are finally getting paid a fair minimum wage.

Thank-You ACORN and NEVER GIVE UP ON THE WAR ON POVERTY!!!

[paulsby]

14. there is most definitely something sinister

about THREE seperate ACORN offices (thus far) being outed as having employees that would willingly aid and abet a frigging juvenile prostitution ring.

here's what a MORAL person would do. call the police when somebody approached them and asked for advice in how to help their child prostitution business do better.

ACORN screwed themselves.

three offices screams a CULTURE of corruption.

[paulsby]

10. *a* member?

for pete's sake. it's THREE offices so far, and multiple members.

getting facts right is the first step in these types of analogies.