Was the bailout going to fund ACORN?


September 26th, 2008

Lindsay Graham first mentioned this last night and has now repeated in an interview with Meredith Viera:

SEN. GRAHAM: Yeah. As I understand it, about 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning, I was in the House, meeting with House Republicans to talk about what we could do. You had three senators, I think, from the Republican side and several senators on the Democratic side meet by themselves, have a news conference — “We’ve got an agreement.”

I never heard about it until I went to the Republican lunch. And if you were in the lunch, it was clear that there was not a consensus about this agreement. There was never an agreement that had buy-in by the House and the Senate.

I appreciate their efforts. But 20 percent of the money that would be collected back to retire the debt we’re going to incur would have went to housing programs, programs like ACORN that have been very fraudulent in nature. So nobody on the Republican side was going to sign up to that.

ACORN or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a “community organization of low- and moderate-income families that addresses housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, job conditions, and other social issues that affect its members. ” The organization has been linked to voter fraud.

The group is also tied to Senator Barack Obama. According to the Associated Press:

“Obama was part of a team of attorneys who represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois in 1995 for failing to implement a federal law designed to make it easier for the poor and others to register as voters.”

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Today’s big question for everyone


September 26th, 2008

Is the sky really falling? Really? Or….?

- Is this another WMD thing?
- Is this like when we were told Obama would win New Hampshire and Hillary was over?
- Is this like when we were told John Kerry was going to be president because of exit polls?
- Is this like Y2K?
- Is this like McCain having no chance of being the nominee?
- Is this like Richard Jewell and the Olympics?

Is this in fact like every piece of nonsense that goes from being one solution to biblical truth or do we really face doomsday? I have to be honest, I have no idea who to trust, what to believe or what the best solution is.

I just know that when one party, the media and the government agree on anything… I get scared.

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