Let me put it this way: after seeing the first part of the San Bernardino ACORN video - the one where the ACORN stooge is bragging about her husband’s death, the former running of her own brothel, and the way that she knows Senator Barbara Boxer - GayPatriot called up Boxer’s office*. He’s reporting that the Senator’s staff is pointing out in their responses that their boss voted to defund ACORN. When Senator Barbara Boxer can see the writing on the wall…
DOOM.
Wonderful, wonderful DOOM.
*H/T Instapundit.
Moe Lane
PS: One of my colleagues has noted privately something to the effect that the problem with all of this is that Andrew Breitbart has raised the expectations of what constitutes a successful website launch to totally unsustainable levels.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.

Obama's catch 22
wolfster38 Tuesday, September 15th at 8:16PM EDT (link)Obama’s catch 22, What can he do? Investigate, and ACORN will spill the beans on Obama. Don’t do anything and it mushrooms out of control. Hard times ahead for BHO !
You almost feel sorry for the guy
JoeG Tuesday, September 15th at 10:38PM EDT (link)OK, I can’t keep the joke up any longer. Schadenfreude anyone?
Schadenfreude
Incredible Wednesday, September 16th at 12:39AM EDT (link)Has been Word of the Day for a couple of months.
For me, the schadenfreude really started when Sarah Palin owned the White House on the health care debate. All that everybody has been talking about since then is the “death panels”. The President had to defend himself against the “death panel” charge and give her copy on his talking points memo from the Joint Session speech. She owned them.
Then the healthcare debate was owned by average Americans, old people, conservatives, former soldiers & girls with $20 bills.
Then the Van “Truther” Jones firing.
Then the Acorn tapes.
Then…
It’s been a constant schadenfreude IV-drip for the last few weeks.
http://www.incredibleco.ning.com
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Who knew losing the White House could be so much fun!
tankertodd Wednesday, September 16th at 12:58AM EDT (link)n/t
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I doubt we'd enjoy it anywhere near as much fun
JoeG Wednesday, September 16th at 2:27AM EDT (link)Had that guy running with Sarah won.
By now we’d have some serious heartburn.
WOW. Is anyone even awake at the FBI?
scottbomb Tuesday, September 15th at 8:29PM EDT (link)How ACORN even continues to function, under ANY name, is beyond my comprehension. This duo of twenty-something amateurs are amazing.
http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com
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Breitbart has another post about
RJD Tuesday, September 15th at 8:34PM EDT (link)ACORN’s Maryland office functioning illegally due to charters being pulled.
Two words
twobeers Tuesday, September 15th at 8:51PM EDT (link)George Soros. And I have no doubt that he is figuring out how to create the next incarnation of ACORN. Hopefully, we have more James and Hannahs.
http://www.brusbits.blogspot.com
Cloward-Piven
DerKrieger Tuesday, September 15th at 9:17PM EDT (link)I read an article sometime in the last few days about ACORN and Cloward-Piven and have previously read something about Obama and Cloward-Piven. Today I was thinking that the real mastermind behind the Cloward-Piven strategy is George Soros. With all the Left wing organizations that he funds, all of which seem to have the same goals of draining the Treasury, sowing discontent, agitating for increased spending and government control, he must be purposely trying to take down the US.
I’m supportive of 1st Amendment rights and the right to petition the government but can what Soros is up to really be classified as a citizen merely trying to influence his government? Or is he up to something more sinister that can only be defined as war? I believe he is an enemy of the American people and our free republic.
The conservative movement has momentum with the whole ACORN thing so I think now is the time to go after Soros and his entire web of sappers.
http://cloward-piven.com/
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence (OBAMACARE – mine), the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Give them a Pulitzer!
Xasteius Tuesday, September 15th at 9:22PM EDT (link)I would.
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
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When I grow up, I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be Art Chance.
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S, bomb, the FBI is tied up in the corner...
MacAoidh Tuesday, September 15th at 9:33PM EDT (link)…with a rag stuffed in their mouths. You can b’lee dat.
Check out MacAoidh’s commentary on Louisiana and national politics at TheHayride.com
Two words: Eric Holden
The_Gadfly Wednesday, September 16th at 7:45AM EDT (link)If he was willing to torpedo what was an effectively already convicted case with the Black Panthers in Philadelphia, he ain’t gonna let nobody in the FBI investigate The Big 0’s main ideological squeeze.
We’ve been called racists enough now that it shouldn’t bother us any more.
-AChance, http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/03/what-men-may-do-we-have-done/#comment-24463
If NY23 was a beat down for Conservatives, what do you call what happened to Progressives in NJ and VA?
inspired by ColdWarrior, http://www.redstate.com/hooah_mac/2009/11/04/ny-23-the-agony-of-defeat-not-so-much/#comment-156
Breitbart has pretty cornered website launches. (nt)
RJD Tuesday, September 15th at 8:34PM EDT (link)nt
As an LSU fan, I have to admit...
MacAoidh Tuesday, September 15th at 9:42PM EDT (link)…that Tulane has some value given that Breitbart and Newt Gingrich both hold degrees from there.
Check out MacAoidh’s commentary on Louisiana and national politics at TheHayride.com
Probably not much,
michigan Tuesday, September 15th at 8:40PM EDT (link)at least not with the DOJ. With the AG on to the CIA, racisum, advocating the next terrorist release and panty raids, there is really no resources left to launch any type of investigation on the president’s pet organization.
The ony real trouble ACORN is in, is with the voting public, and the lawmakers that fear them.
Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important
They don’t mean to do harm
But the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.
T. S. Eliot
It's proof positive
10ksnooker Tuesday, September 15th at 8:54PM EDT (link)ACORN is a criminal enterprise.
California ACORN spin UPDATE
Erick Brockway Tuesday, September 15th at 9:14PM EDT (link)Here’s how the head organizer for California ACORN is trying to spin the video;
Note to lefties;
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”
Ronald Reagan
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Well in that case,
discerningconservative Tuesday, September 15th at 9:48PM EDT (link)I’ll just go ahead and mail them a donation right now…
On second thought…
I'm tellin' ya
Erick Brockway Tuesday, September 15th at 9:53PM EDT (link)We were obviously all wrong about that Acorn.
I’d say Amy Schur had plenty of time to make that garbage up, watching the dominoes fall on the east coast.
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I would enjoy it
discerningconservative Tuesday, September 15th at 10:00PM EDT (link)if a new video breaks everyday for the next few months. It amazes me the arrogance of these people trying to explain this away.
I'm starting to think Breitbart is gonna slap them silly
Erick Brockway Sunday, September 20th at 11:24PM EDT (link)He’s taken the R4R book and slapped them upside the head with it. Seeing him tweeting this yesterday;
Patterico (if you missed it) wrote on his blog;
AB is right, everybody is on pins and needles, especially Acorn.
Myself, I’m stocking up.
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How deep does the rabbit hole go?
revivefederalism Tuesday, September 15th at 9:15PM EDT (link)These videos show their character. As I’ve said before, if they were willing to help people they thought were child molesters, they have probably helped ACTUAL criminals in a similar manner.
In order to find these examples though, a serious investigation probably needs to be undertaken. Perhaps the IRS will be smart enough to audit all of the clients of the ACORN tax specialist in Baltimore.
I don’t know that we’d actually be lucky enough to rescue some poor girls from bondage, but I think it’s pretty likely that we’d find more than a few people with prior arrests for prostitution and drug distribution claiming to be performance artists, personal trainers, and other assorted service jobs with cash businesses and no inventories.
Follow the Mad Hatter
DerKrieger Tuesday, September 15th at 9:53PM EDT (link)George Soros
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” - Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence (OBAMACARE – mine), the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Crazy woman
Freedomlover Tuesday, September 15th at 9:48PM EDT (link)Sorry but this latest video only shows ACORN guilty of hiring a crazy woman. The woman is obviously either crazy and living in a fantasy world to get attention or she’s a shill. Why would someone in a position such as hers, give that much personal info to perfect strangers?
This latest video does nothing to help the cause to expose ACORN for who they really are. In fact, it’s so bizarre it makes you think it was a set-up. I’m saddened that they felt the need to release this video before finding out the facts as to who Theresa really is. Is that her real name?
Is her history truthful? This is no way to catch a “Big” fish. ACORN is slimy but they are not stupid. Far from it!
It's another pebble in the scale
Erick Brockway Tuesday, September 15th at 11:10PM EDT (link)Acorn and the left are getting the Breitbart Water Torture;
Drip
Drip
Drip
A drop a day.
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Crazy?
1stRichard Tuesday, September 15th at 11:51PM EDT (link)An insane person in a sane society will seem insane but a sane person in an insane society will seem insane. Yes she is a “Crazy Woman” but this was acceptable in that society, the society being ACORN. The only remaining question is how much of ACORN is “Crazy”?
Is it so bizarre it makes you think it was a set-up? Being from W/MA I think bizarre is normal for liberals and have come to expect anything. I get the same reaction, it is so bizarre most think it was a “set-up”. Like when I say the liberals are not only after my guns but now, they want to take away my microwave oven, ban and regulate their sale. That is so bizarre you think it was a set-up, right?
See for your self…
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/185/st00/st00203.htm
The thing that's missing
grinlap Tuesday, September 15th at 9:51PM EDT (link)in all the discussion about Acorn is that it’s largely a housing assistance organization. They help poor folks get mortgages to buy houses. Since most of these folks probably can’t afford the houses they bought there was probably a lot of “elasticity” in the information on the mortgage application that was helpfully filled out by Acorn. Sort of like describing a prostitute as a performance artist. With all the failed sub-prime mortgages out there how many can be traced back to Acorn fraud? Someone should be reviewing all mortgage applications that went through an Acorn office. They would have names of Acorn employees and home buyers, both of which might be ripe for prosecution.
Not only that...
Freedomlover Tuesday, September 15th at 10:30PM EDT (link)During the nineties ACORN was intimidating bankers to make these loans to people who could not afford houses. They would have sit-ins in the lobbies of banks, protest outside and even would march into board meetings and just stand there not saying anything and then walk out. According to Consumer Rights League, 2008, “ACORN’s business model involves choosing a corporate target, attacking it, reaching financial settlement, and then beginning the cycle again with a different target.”
Remember this?
1stRichard Tuesday, September 15th at 10:56PM EDT (link)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohp5IX3y098
Short Answer: None
Achance Tuesday, September 15th at 10:56PM EDT (link)The US isn’t going to do a damned thing to ACORN. Yeah, they’ll pass a few disapproving things to get headlines in the MSM, but nothing will change. ACORN has a bazillion subsidiaries, as does SEIU, and the US can move money between appropriations with impunity. This whole thing is like peeing your pants in a dark suit; gives you a warm feeling and nobody notices.
In Vino Veritas
What Art said, plus
mbecker908 Tuesday, September 15th at 11:01PM EDT (link)you’ll know something may - “MAY” - be happening when the US Attorneys go after them on RICO charges, which this non-lawyer thinks could be pretty easily proved.
George Soros' Unholy Alliance with ACORN
DerKrieger Tuesday, September 15th at 11:01PM EDT (link)http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/07/george-soros-unholy-alliance-with-acorn.html
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” - Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence (OBAMACARE – mine), the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Connect the Soros Dots
Spartan4Life Wednesday, September 16th at 2:25AM EDT (link)Let’s see….
1. The Clintons and liberals(Barney Frank) in Congress expand the Community Reinvestment Act
2. Banks are pressured by Community Organizers(Obama/Acorn) to loan money to people that can’t pay it back at “sub-prime” interest rates
3. Banks make a fortune dumping the paper for the loans all over the world
4. Banking system collapses when real estate prices tank
5. Soros makes a fortune shorting the banks.
That guy should be in jail. Not walking around with the Democrat party in his pocket.
ACORN is a criminal organization
Justrand Tuesday, September 15th at 11:42PM EDT (link)The two brave young people who did the REAL journalism that the “MSM” won’t do, have shown just depraved this organization is.
They paid for this themselves…and are batting 1000 right now. Even if it turns out they only batted .750, we at least know for a FACT that no ACORN office EVER called the police!
Imagine if even your best friend said they were going to open a brothel using 14 year old girls as sex slaves! No DECENT human being…hell no HUMAN BEING would keep quiet.
In ACORN’s case they just wanted a piece of the action!
Justrand
Think you're wrong about that, there's a goodly number
Achance Wednesday, September 16th at 1:41AM EDT (link)who’d just want to know the hours and the price.
In Vino Veritas
So at what point...
Mark D Wednesday, September 16th at 12:40AM EDT (link)does the left start their hatchet job on Mr. O’Keefe and Ms. Giles? At this point, there’s likely no shortage of people who want to ruin them.
Bravo to them both for having the guts to do this.
You know you’ve reached rock bottom when you’re told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.
I think it'll take a while.
mbecker908 Wednesday, September 16th at 12:55AM EDT (link)First of all O’Keefe seems to be well schooled in trench warfare. They’re dribbling out the videos, letting one office after another make utter fools of themselves and then launching another round.
Second, check out the link to biggovernment.com in Redhot. They seem to have really pissed of the wrong guy.
Third, nobody is rushing in to defend them. NOBODY.
They've already tried, but so far EPIC Fail.
The_Gadfly Wednesday, September 16th at 7:57AM EDT (link)Baltimore prosecutor hinted at trying them for wiretapping. Paraphrasing O’Keefe he said “Go ahead punk. Make my day.”
ACORN has repeatedly tried the doctored, we knew about this, nobody at our offices actually does what we’ve been accused of, and of course with each initial release the “we need to see the unedited tapes” line.
Dowd has pitched the racist line, along with others, and the MSM has been doing the utter best to ignore the story.
But nothing is gaining any traction because the video makes it so blatantly obvious that ACORN is a criminal conspiracy. The only thing that surprises me is that nobody on the other side is telling them to cut their losses. Because with ACORN every time they try any of these spin lines, the spin loses a bit of credibility. Pretty soon nobody is going to take any of these charges seriously, even if the case is real.
We’ve been called racists enough now that it shouldn’t bother us any more.
-AChance, http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/03/what-men-may-do-we-have-done/#comment-24463
If NY23 was a beat down for Conservatives, what do you call what happened to Progressives in NJ and VA?
inspired by ColdWarrior, http://www.redstate.com/hooah_mac/2009/11/04/ny-23-the-agony-of-defeat-not-so-much/#comment-156
I think we need to be careful not to overplay the Cali vid
The_Gadfly Wednesday, September 16th at 7:59AM EDT (link)This woman strikes me as more of a loon than reliable witness.
Doesn’t excuse ACORN for having a loon handing out what amounts to legal advice, but I think if she’s investigated she’ll turn out to be a more prolific liar than Bill Clinton was.
We’ve been called racists enough now that it shouldn’t bother us any more.
-AChance, http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/03/what-men-may-do-we-have-done/#comment-24463
If NY23 was a beat down for Conservatives, what do you call what happened to Progressives in NJ and VA?
inspired by ColdWarrior, http://www.redstate.com/hooah_mac/2009/11/04/ny-23-the-agony-of-defeat-not-so-much/#comment-156
BigGovernment posts murder investigation police report
The_Gadfly Thursday, September 17th at 9:09AM EDT (link)http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/16/police-report-san-bernardino-county-investigating-alleged-homicide/
I called it on the loon part. The police have no evidence any of her husbands were murdered.
Of course, in page 2 of the comments things get a bit more complicated again. Commenter AlphaB notes that “The record shows that she has had at least 3 restraining orders filed AGAINST her by Ronald Kaelke under the domestic violence provisions of the court in San Bernardino.” In the subsequent replies he provides links to the courthouse databases, where you would have to run the searches yourself. He does provide what looks like a cut and paste of a court order for the case. I didn’t search to confirm, but I find him credible.
We’ve been called racists enough now that it shouldn’t bother us any more.
-AChance, http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/03/what-men-may-do-we-have-done/#comment-24463
If NY23 was a beat down for Conservatives, what do you call what happened to Progressives in NJ and VA?
inspired by ColdWarrior, http://www.redstate.com/hooah_mac/2009/11/04/ny-23-the-agony-of-defeat-not-so-much/#comment-156
ACORN above Obama's Pay Grade
proudgop Sunday, September 20th at 7:16PM EDT (link)“Frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely,” Obama said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” aired Sunday. “I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.”
Asked if he’s committed to cutting off funding to ACORN, Obama said “this is not the biggest issue facing the country.”
“It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to,” Obama said.
So glad our President is watch out for our taxpayers money? NOT
The real problem is that nobody knows about this stuff
Achance Monday, September 21st at 12:06AM EDT (link)except news junkies that watch cable and political junkies that watch cable and the internet. Somebody else posted about this; if you’re John Q. Uninvolved that gets your news by osmosis and from the Old Media, you’ve never heard a word about any of this.
And they’re trying really hard to keep it that way.
In Vino Veritas