House Republicans Defund the Nonexistent ACORN, Yet Again

[deminks]

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/house-republicans-defund-acorn-again

In the Friday the 13th film series, psycho killer Jason Voorhees lumbers around destroying lives with his machete. He is seemingly indestructible, reanimating even though he dies at the end of almost every movie in which he appears. The sexy teens (the flawed protagonists of this horror-flick franchise) are thus charged with brutally killing Jason again and again, time after time, no matter what.

That's how House Republicans view ACORN, the defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (a longtime boogeyman for the right). It's Jason, and John Boehner is a sexy teen. For years, conservatives accused the defunct organization of a fictional large-scale voter fraud plot. In actuality, ACORN was a New Orleans-based nonprofit that advocated for low-income families on issues such as predatory lending and public education.

The Huffington Post reports:

The House GOP quietly blocked funding for ACORN last week, even though the anti-poverty organization has long since been both defunded and disbanded.

The legislative assault on ACORN, which shut down in 2010, was included in a Department of Defense appropriations bill that cleared the House on Thursday...Section 8097 of the bill reads, "None of the funds made available under this Act may be distributed to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries."

[...]

[T]he House GOP votes to defund ACORN all the time. Nearly every bill that clears the House Appropriations Committee includes a section barring the use of funds for ACORN, although the specific language varies among different bills.

ACORN, which was dissolved in 2010, could not be reached for comment.


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:facepalm

[Vietnameravet]

1. Next they will vote to repeal Obamacare!!

[bluestate10]

10. Anyone but an idiot that votes for people from the republican party MUST be ashamed now.

What a bunch of clueless clowns.

[DJ13]

2. K&R for the laugh!

[TeamPooka]

3. Ready for the GOP to repeal the Emancipation Proclamation?

[DirkGently]

4. It's important they reiterate their hatred for Americans daily. n/t

[Liberal Veteran]

5. In related news: House votes to declare independence from England.

[G_j]

6. "ACORN

which was dissolved in 2010, could not be reached for comment."

[peoli]

8. wtf!!!!!

[bluestate10]

9. That tactic plays well to their idiotic base and other voters who regularly support that

party. Heaven help the republican party if it actually governs in the best interests of citizens.