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Rats deserting a sinking ACORN
New York Post ^ | 9/26/09 | Opinion

Posted on 09/26/2009 4:03:02 AM PDT by jersey117

Like rats deserting a sinking ship, ACORN's many enablers over the years are racing for the exits as the scope of the organization's shenanigans come to light.

Even leftist fellow-traveler -- and, until now, stalwart ACORN defender -- Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is squirming.

What took them so long? We've been warning about the group for ages.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 111th; acorn; barneyfrank; coi; corruption; democratcorruption; democrats; rico; taxfraud; taxfraus; wirefraud
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To: Humidston

I appreciate the encouraging words!


61 posted on 09/27/2009 2:39:56 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: Brilliant

“I am surprised they are deserting. I would have expected them to circle the wagons.”

Can we please have this be the “at the end of the day” story of the Obama administration’s relationship with the media?


62 posted on 09/27/2009 5:40:25 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Man50D
Maybe it's just me but this is a very difficult time to get through, even if I sometimes manage a glimmer of hope. Just a suggestion but couldn't we phrase things like this "We have to watch their every move or The ship will be renamed and have another crew..

I can't see how fueling our hopelessness and impotence in these dangerous times can be helpful. That's what the other side is trying to do by diminishing the townhalls and Washington march. The men who founded this country had an attitude of making a difference, I'd like to personally shoot for that as well.

Just picked this comment but it seems like these types of comments are the majority these days, not just here, on all conservative boards. Nothing personal. IMHO

63 posted on 09/27/2009 6:02:22 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: Terpfen
Thanks for that, you know that tyhey are scambling to set up a firewalled organization so they can get their hands on that 8.6 billion before the 2012 election.

TheAcorn staff are simply abandoniong Acorn like rats from a sinking ship and heading for COI-TUS ( Community Organizers International-The United States)

They will conduct the same destructive activity but with a security component to keep investigatve reporters out.

Now the real social war starts.

64 posted on 09/27/2009 9:22:03 AM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: Kenny

YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT. ENOUGH OF THIS SNARKY, DOWN-IN-THE-MOUTH, “WOE IS ME”, “WE LOST” COMMENTARY. IF THE MILITARY WENT INTO BATTLES WITH NEGATIVE, “ALL IS LOST”, “WE’RE GOING TO LOSE” WAR CRIES, DAMN, NO BATTLES WOULD BE WON.

KEEP THE BATTLE CRY UPBEAT, REPORT THE FACTS, HAVE A GAME PLAN AND FOLLOW THROUGH. THIS IS AN UP AND DOWN FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES AND FREEDOM, UNDERSTAND IT AS SUCH, AND DO NOT DWELL ON THE NEGATIVE. LET’S HEAR IT FOR POSITIVE INPUT ON HOW THIS DAMN WAR WE’RE FIGHTING WITH THE COMMUNIST WHITE HOUSE CAN BE WON! HOOAH!


65 posted on 09/27/2009 1:25:35 PM PDT by itssme
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To: jersey117
Rats deserting a sinking ACORN

Riiiiiiiiight.

And where are they all going? Concerned Women for America? The Christian Coalition? Athletes in Action?

66 posted on 09/27/2009 1:55:42 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: jersey117

Grassley uncovered some big info about them shifting funds from charitable to political organizations.
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Recall how much trouble Gingrich got in for just the HINT of this...Let’s nail ‘em to the wall, as they did Gingrich for something much, much less pernicious...


67 posted on 09/27/2009 3:08:52 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: Texas Eagle

And where are they all going? Concerned Women for America? The Christian Coalition? Athletes in Action?
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lol. Well - they are rats - and as long as they’re vacating what was an effective position - I could care less where they go!


68 posted on 09/27/2009 3:11:28 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: wastoute

...pound them with fury wherever they try to hide. That is how you put an end to corruption
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Right. This is not an easy task, is it? And it won’t be easy in this case. No matter how obvious and evident is the corruption that is assualting our sensibilities.


69 posted on 09/27/2009 3:13:19 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: Man50D

The ship will be renamed and have another crew.
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Only if we let ‘em.


70 posted on 09/27/2009 3:13:49 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: Madame Dufarge

—He also claims he hadn’t closely read a letter with his signature on it that

**The Democrat Official Stock Answer.

Van Jones didn’t read the 911 Truther petition that he signed, either.
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Morons. No one else gets away with the crap they do. Thank you Formerly Main Stream Media (FMSM)...your traiterous acts will speak ill of you in history.


71 posted on 09/27/2009 3:16:20 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: TomGuy

They create a new organization which assimilates the aspects and assets of the former.
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A bit like the Al Qaeda web - in more ways than one...true believers (socialism) right? Etc..


72 posted on 09/27/2009 3:17:34 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: jersey117

A white, male Republican speaker would have been asked to resign over that.
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There are distressing double standards going on in this country. It is a shame that Dr. King’s dreams are not being lived out [’I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin [nor their gender, nor their Christian faith], but by the content of their character.’]


73 posted on 09/27/2009 3:25:27 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: Texas Eagle
Rats deserting a sinking ACORN

They can't.

ACORN, and the likes of them, IS the Rat party.

Change the name and change some of the people and they will move on as usual.

74 posted on 09/27/2009 3:31:34 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: jersey117
The biggest rat of all...

The Man From A.C.O.R.N.
 

75 posted on 09/27/2009 4:34:29 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: jersey117
The biggest rat of all


The Man From A.C.O.R.N.
 

76 posted on 09/27/2009 4:35:47 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: counterpunch

Behold! Our president. Don’t it make ya proud?


77 posted on 09/27/2009 4:37:40 PM PDT by Helen
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To: jersey117

The ACORN thugs will hide out and continue under another name.


78 posted on 09/27/2009 6:45:04 PM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: SeattleBruce

I agree. I’m sick and tired of hearing news personalities referring to what’s going on at ACORN as mere “shenanigans”.


79 posted on 09/28/2009 2:43:46 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Americaneedsyoou

Shenanigans ??? More like “criminal activities...


80 posted on 09/28/2009 2:53:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (UN mixing democracies & dictators' is like mixing ice cream and shit-all of it stinks.(Steyn))
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