ACORN

[TheMercenary]

Carries the same weight as Chairman Max Baucus defending recommending his girlfriend for a powerful well paid position in the government and then trying to defend it as if everyone should take his word.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Carries the same weight as Chairman Max Baucus defending recommending his girlfriend for a powerful well paid position in the government and then trying to defend it as if everyone should take his word.

Still throwing that mud Merc? It's not gonna stick, try as you might.

[TheMercenary]

I still think there is a problem with getting your girl friend a job when you are a powerful Congress person, yea.

[glatt]

Do you need a primer on how appointment slots are filled by an Administration? I know you know this already, but I think you are having fun pointing and playing dumb.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by glatt

Do you need a primer on how appointment slots are filled by an Administration? I know you know this already, but I think you are having fun pointing and playing dumb.

Playing?

OH NO!

At the Whie House Christmas party earlier this week. they served ACORN cookies:

Any fan of Cookie Monster on Sesame Street knows that "C" is for cookie.

But at the Obama White House, "A" may be for acorn -- as in acorn cookies served at Monday's annual Christmas party.

The chocolate cookies shaped like an acorn were quite a hit with Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

"I didn't expect to see such stark symbolism," King said in an e-mail....

...The irony of the White House dishing out acorn-shaped chocolate cookies seemed a little, well, "nutty" to King. The Iowa Republican is one of the loudest voices calling for Congress to investigate ACORN.

King pocketed several of the acorn cookies at the White House soiree....



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...ican-lawmaker/

Stark symbolism?


A nutty butty cookie might be more symbolic for Mr. King.

[ZenGum]

Clearly, Acorn are the New Freemasons. I bet they have secret handshakes too. How long until there are Oak trees on US currency?

[classicman]

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty.

Late last Friday, Baucus acknowledged his relationship with Melodee Hanes, whom he nominated for the job of U.S. attorney in Montana, after it was first reported on the website MainJustice.com. But he said that Hanes withdrew from consideration for the job when the relationship became more serious. The next day, he dismissed calls for an ethics investigation, saying, “I went out of my way to be up and up.”

Since his announcement, more details of the relationship have emerged, raising questions about a workplace romance between a boss and employee that Baucus tried to keep quiet and also contradicting his explanation for why Hanes’s nomination was withdrawn.

Jodi Ravi, a former reporter for the Missoulian revealed over the weekend that the paper informed Baucus in March that it was poised to publish a story about Hanes’s relationship with the senator and the fact that he had nominated her for the U.S. attorney job.

The next day, Hanes withdrew from consideration. According to the Missoulian, Baucus’s office never acknowledged a relationship between the two, and the paper did not run a story.

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I don't know much about this, at first I thought it was nothing, but it appears there may be a little more smoke surfacing. Not the most unbiased source, but there seem to be fewer and fewer of them to read.

[TheMercenary]

Heh.

[classicman]

When asked whether "ACORN will try to steal the election for Martha Coakley," a surprising 25% of those surveyed in Massachusetts said "yes." A total of 38% said "no," and another 37% weren't sure. Lest you think concern about ACORN was limited to Republicans, one out of six Democrats thought ACORN would attempt electoral hanky-panky. One out of four African-Americans expressed the same concern, along with the same number of voters who called themselves moderates.

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James O’Keefe, the conservative activist who orchestrated "sting" videos at ACORN offices around the country, posing as a pimp to attempting entrap ACORN employees in some illegal acts, was arrested yesterday for allegedly attempting to wiretape a Democratic senator's office phones.

FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes alleges that O’Keefe aided and abbetted two others, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who dressed up as employees of a telephone company and attempted to interfere with the office’s telephone system...

...JOSEPH BASEL, age 24; ROBERT FLANAGAN, age 24; JAMES O’KEEFE, age 25; and STAN DAI, age 24, were charged in a criminal complaint with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony, announced the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana...

http://washingtonindependent.com/748...keefe-arrested

The federal charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail and a fine up to $250,000....but we will presume he is innocent until proven guilty.

[glatt]

That's just the Obama Justice Department using its muscle to shut down the political opposition. It's a perversion of justice, I tell you.

[classicman]

lol @ glatt.

What the hell were these guys thinking??? Whatever it was, it wasn't smart.
It also discredits whatever was done with the ACORN fiasco.

[Happy Monkey]

They thought that the crime part would go under the radar if they could feed something juicy to Drudge, like it did before. Apparently it didn't occur to them that wiretapping a US Senator is a considerably more serious crime than recording a community organization employee without consent.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by classicman

It also discredits whatever was done with the ACORN fiasco.

Nah... to me it's like a cop coming in without a warrant and finding piles of drugs and guns. The method was illegal, but the evidence is still what it is. (It's still inadmissable in court, granted, but not because we think the evidence is fake, only because we have to protect rights and punish the police department for not following the rules.)