Surprise: Obama DOJ Shuts Down ACORN Probe
In a move that should surprise no one, the Department of Justice is suspending its investigation of ACORN, according to information obtained by Judicial Watch.
WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) detailing federal investigations into the alleged corrupt activities of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The documents reference serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN as well as the Obama administration’s decision to shut down a criminal investigation without filing criminal charges.
The documents include background information on two specific complaints filed in October 2008 by Lucy Corelli and Joseph Borges, Republican Registrars of Voters in Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut, respectively, during the 2008 election season.
According to Corelli, on August 1, 2008, her office received 1,200 ACORN voter registration cards from the Secretary of State’s office. Over 300 of these cards were rejected because of “duplicates, underage, illegible and invalid addresses,” which “put a tremendous strain on our office staff and caused endless work hours at taxpayers’ expense.” Corelli claimed the total cost of the extra work caused by ACORN corruption was $20,000. Likewise, Borges contended that: “The organization ACORN during the summer of 2008 conducted a registration drive which has produced over 100 rejections due to incomplete forms and individuals who are not citizens…” Among the examples cited by Borges was a seven-year old child who was registered to vote by ACORN through the use of a forged signature and a fake birth certificate claiming she was 27-years old.
The FBI and Department of Justice opened an investigation. However, the Obama Justice Department, while noting that ACORN had engaged in “questionable hiring and training practices,” closed down the investigation in March 2009, claiming ACORN broke no laws.
Hat tip: Breitbart
“Move along. Nothing to see, you racist honkey.”
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Amazing. But expected politically. Obammy does not want stuff like this dug up.
There is an old saying that if all the money was taken away and given equally to everyone, within 10 years those that had no money before the gift will have no money again. Those that that did, will have gotten it all back.
So here’s the plan. We stop fighting, let this all collapse in a house of cards. When the dust settles, within a few years, those that can will have recovered themselves. The drones will have long since disappeared.
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Oh well,
7577 House seats and1315 Senate seats lost.Maybe we can get some Democrat to come up with a new gun law. We need to shoot for a solid 100 seat Democrat loss in the House.
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Parliamentarian has rules senate bill must be law before it can be amended.
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More, from what KH said –
“Ruling Kills an Option for Moving Health Bill
March 11, 2010, 2:30 P.M.
By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.
The Senate Parliamentarian’s Office was responding to questions posed by the Republican leadership. The answers were provided verbally, sources said.
House Democratic leaders have been searching for a way to ensure that any move they make to approve the Senate-passed $871 billion health care reform bill is followed by Senate action on a reconciliation package of adjustments to the original bill. One idea is to have the House and Senate act on reconciliation prior to House action on the Senate’s original health care bill.
Information Republicans say they have received from the Senate Parliamentarian’s Office eliminates that option. House Democratic leaders last week began looking at crafting a legislative rule that would allow the House to approve the Senate health care bill, but not forward it to Obama for his signature until the Senate clears the reconciliation package. “
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All I can say is that the Obama Administration is pathetic! Day after day the hubris that is generated by their policies, rulings, agendas is beyond the pale of credibility. Whether it’s their dismissal of climategate, their failed HC plan, the Wall Street favoritism, a myriad of cover-ups like this Acorn fiasco, the hits just keep coming!
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…but, didn’t someone say that Biden can override a Parliamentarian’s ruling?
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Isn’t it obvious? The parliamentarian is a racist.
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6 – Sure he can, think the WH wants to take the PR of that… or this slaughter joke.
Haha I doubt it. Bottom line it all comes back to passing the senate version in the house str8 up\down.
In short, nothings really changed.
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That was attempt 706 to get ObamaCare passed. Executive Order is attempt 709. They’ve got a few more tries to get it passed throught the legislative process, oop, sorry, I mean Obama’s legislative process before he just comes right out says it’s law.
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…but, didn’t someone say that Biden can override a Parliamentarian’s ruling?
~~~JANZAM
Yep he can, see 7th para here
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…but, didn’t someone say that Biden can override a Parliamentarian’s ruling?
~~~JANZAM
Yep he can, see 7th para here
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It gets serious when we hear Rahm’s credit card gets hit for a gross of baseball bats and a 2 bus charter out of Chicago.
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Thanks for that TheHill blog, IP. Its been a while since I’ve been to that site.
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Contony’s former homestead
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Biden: Parliamentarian is racist party of NO health care denier, I will over rule him when time is right.
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If the WH calculates for Biden to overrule the Senate parliamentarian then finally Obama will keep one pledge, having failed all the others — He will be a 1 term president.
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lol
That was supposed to our secret, IP. Didn’t I pay for your silence?
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If the parliamentarian is overruled, the precedent is set for us to do the same when the time comes. Swinging a two edged sword can come back to bite you in the butt.(not that it would help us now)
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Party Shots at CT’s Bunker!
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o/t .. Drudge is reporting the problems in Greece. Basically about .5% of the population of Greece is rioting. On a per capita basis this would be the equivalent of over 1.6 million protesting the government in the US, then I remembered this… and this.
If the Dems pass ZEROcare something tells me that 9/12/10 will be hard for the lamestreet media to ignore.
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I’ll bring the entertainment.
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The messiah’s minion overrule a simple parliamentarian? Count on it.
Gee, I hope Biden says something memorable like, “There’s no controlling legal authority to keep us from —ing you in the —” when he makes his “ruling”.
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It all depends on what “is” is.
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BYOB
If Eph is coming, its BYOGs
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Hope he doesn’t bring his uterus.
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Judy, when I watched the video from your link, I got a nauseous feeling in my gut. The cream of the crop of the tea party movement, and no doubt the who’s who of Conservatism were present in a relatively small area. It wouldn’t take much to get rid of the entire lot of them. of course there would be some colateral damage, but the left doesn’t care about life anyway.
We need smaller Tea Party gatherings. Lots of them, but smaller.
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24. Nope!
I’ll bring Jenna Haze’s uterus – has a lot more miles than mine.
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GW crashing fast.
http://tinyurl.com/yctmu9c
You can’t bring jenna, I’m bringing Jenna, Lexi and Tanner.
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EPH’S new gravatar
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TP march on Washington next Tuesday.
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28 – Sort of looks like the 10th amendment.
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28. LOL!
Shrink it down for me and its all mine bro!
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Looks like eph’s uterus.
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27. Ouch!
Tanner too?
That’s like getting Jeter, A-Rod, and Mariano Rivera in one trade!
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KH,
I’ll have to bring the “B” team of Austin, Briana, and Vivian then
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Looks like Eph’s uterus is all used up
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The gamut of intellectual discourse~~from acorn to eph’s uterus.
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I was going to post that ObamaCare is as dead as those people the media mistakenly said they had died, so I went to research some of the names. There are literally hundreds of them, so I won’t give any examples.
So. . . . even with the Parliamentarian’s ruling, it looks like ObamaCare is as dead as the media saying someone is dead.
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IP,
Humor – it’s the only way to take my mind of all the crap that’s happening to my beautiful country
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EPH~~~Exactamundo
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Imagine the media coverage regarding health care today versus what it would be if the Republicans threatened reconciliation.
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This should cheer everyone up:
http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/10/the-myth-of-the-recovery
Happy days folks!
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Folks…we all occaisionally fall into the trap of thinking of Obama as a “President”, and the Dems in Congress as “Representatives”.
BIG mistake.
Obama acts MUCH more like a Soviet Premiere, and the Dems like Poliburo Members. Thus “Parliamentary rules”, and other such things are not really obstacles to what they want to do.
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Eph -
Someone on HA last night listed a pre-2008 eclection article from Reason in which the staff stated whom they were voting for and why. Obama got the most votes followed by Bob Barr.
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43. BC,
Then can we assume a “Pass the Popcorn” moment then?
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Hat tip: UPI