Going after ACORN may be like shooting fish in a barrel lately — but jumpy lawmakers used a bazooka to do it last week and may have blown up some of their longtime allies in the process.
The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to “any organization” that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.
In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.
Oh isn’t that delicious.
posted : Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
reblogged from : AZspot
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Going after ACORN may be like shooting fish in a barrel lately — but jumpy lawmakers used a bazooka to do it last week...
So good it hurts.
Silly lawmakers.
That could be a pretty good “whoops.” Especially if it means no more tax dollars for Blackwater Xe.
Oh isn’t that delicious.