#rsrh Shocked! ACORN works for Democrats.

I know, I know ... Who would have ever imagined that?

Via Daily Caller and Judicial Watch h/t Michelle Malkin.

Apparently the FBI imagined that back in 2007 when they were investigating ACORN and employees told them they committed voter registration fraud and worked for the Democratic party.

Now, I know the left will scream that this isn't voter fraud and so it had no real impact on elections. To that I will refer them to this from the Daily Caller article:

...an ACORN employee said the purpose of “[f]raudulent cards” was “[t]o cause confusion on election day to keep polls open longer,” “[t]o allow people who can’t vote to vote,” and “[t]o allow to vote multiple times.”

Presumably this is from one of the 8 ACORN employees who plead guilty to voter registration fraud.

At this point we have to ask of our Organizer in Chief, what did you know and when did you know it. It appears, as reported in the Daily Caller article, that Judicial Watch is already asking...

“These documents show the need for a national criminal investigation by the Obama Justice Department into ACORN,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch.

“Is Attorney General [Eric] Holder doing nothing because of Obama’s close connections to ACORN and Project Vote? The information in these new documents has national implications that cry out for further investigation,” Fitton said.

Again, with good reason...

President Obama’s ties to ACORN go back to the 1980s.

“ACORN noticed him when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the Developing Communities Project,” according to Toni Foulkes, a former member of ACORN’s national board. From 1985 to 1988 Obama ran the Developing Communities Project from an office located in Chicago’s Holy Rosary Church.

Exit question ... Would using a church to perform voter registration fraud be a cardinal or mortal sin?

Aaron B. Gardner

Will Obama Shut Down the Chicago PD for Torture?

H/t Instapundit for this from the Sun Times

"I could hear someone screaming -- like for help. They sounded like they were deep in distress," Sammy W. Lacey testified at Burge's federal trial Wednesday, attempting to bolster prosecutors' case and abuse claims raised by the now deceased convicted cop killer Andrew Wilson.

Glenn notes that this would probably be getting more attention had it happened at GITMO.

This leads me to ask ... Would it really?

I mean, Obama has been President for just under a year and six months and GITMO is still open despite his promise to close it.

Now if the answer to my title question is "Yes, immediately", and he actually follows through, then we can expect GITMO to be closed around 2032.

Aaron B. Gardner

P.S. Have you read Insty's book "An Army of Davids"? If so let me know if I should too.

When Israel was in Egypt’s land...

...Let my people go.

Via The Hill

A swarm of "thousands of bees" gathered outside the White House this morning.

I wonder what the other 9 plagues will look like?


Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at RedState.

You just gotta love the guys at JibJab

Aaron B. Gardner

LA Times: POTUS Bringing his A-game

Via Moe Lane of RedState

I didn't make it past the second paragraph before finding this gem.

The president's coolness in the face of the right wing's relentlessly anti-intellectual assault on his policies has been impressive as a display of character. But it also has enabled his opponents to subvert his program and erode his popularity.

Must be rough getting you posterior handed to you by a bunch of "anti-intellectual" rubes such as us. Makes one question the supposed intellectual prowess of the POTUS now doesn't it.

Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at RedState

A Political Theme Song for the Obama Generation

There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
All inside its so frustrating as I drift from town to town
Feel as though nobody cares if I live or die
So I might as well begin to put some action in my life

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law



So much for the golden future, I cant even start
Ive had every promise broken, theres anger in my heart
You dont know what its like, you dont have a clue
If you did youd find yourselves doing the same thing too**

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

You dont know what its like

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

Breaking the law


** "We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have little; who've been told that they cannot have what they dream; that they cannot be what they imagine. "

Aaron B. Gardner

"Breaking the Law" By Judas Priest.

Crossposted at RedState

ACORN will sue Giles, O'Keefe and Breitbart...UPDATE

Via Big Government

BALTIMORE (AP) – Community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute.

[h/t to Moe Lane for the text]


ACORN v OKeefe -

Discovery should be a fun process.

Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at RedState

The WH, The NEA, ACORN, 'Cool' People, and Serve.Gov Go into a bar...

The crew over at Big Hollywood and Big Goverment continued the fight today.

Further exposing the incestuous nature of the modern Progressive Left in America, John Nolte details the soon to be infamous conference call between the White House Office of Public Engagement, the NEA's Communications Director, Serve.gov Director of Outreach, and a list of hand picked artists/trend setters/just plain "cool" people.

In it he paints a picture of the not so subtle desire of the Obama Administration to have a PR hit squad that even Joseph Goebbels would be proud of.

All evidence points to the fact that the conference call was a ruse, a front for a White House using Skolnik as a kind of beard in order to put an innocent spin on their abuse of the NEA and two non-partisan volunteer organizations (United We Serve – an initiative overseen by The Corporation for National and Community Service – a federal agency, and the White House’ Office of Public Engagement).


The goal: To motivate a group of hand-picked pro-Obama artists (grant recipients or those wanting grants) to push the President’s flagging agenda, especially health care — and to funnel this promotion through the ACORN related- Serve.gov website.

I am not a lawyer and certainly won't attempt to debate the illegality of this call and the greater relationship that exists. There are others who have already done that and come to the conclusion that "laws were broken"...

All of this – particularly the government-sponsored conference call itself – is in blatant violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act (19 U.S. Code §1913), which explicitly provides: “No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress, a jurisdiction, or an official of any government, to favor, adopt, or oppose by vote or otherwise, any legislation, law, ratification, policy, or appropriation, whether before or after the introduction of any bill, measure or resolution proposing such legislation, law, ratification, policy or appropriation …”

[snip...]

Violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act carries punishment: “Any person who makes an expenditure … shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 and not more than $100,000 for each such expenditure.” And that’s not all: “An imposition of a civil penalty under this subsection does not prevent the United States from seeking any other remedy that the United States may have for the same conduct that is the basis for the imposition of such civil penalty.” In other words, criminal prosecution is available here.

Who am I to disagree. ;^)

I wonder if any of this will be covered by ABC, CBS, NBC, MSDNC, CNN, or any of those soon to be subsidized birdcage liners Bambi is thinking he like to buy and manipulate.

Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at RedState