"The House voted today to avert a possible government shutdown next week by temporarily extending the current federal budget. But Democrats inserted a provision saying that ACORN could not receive funding under the stopgap measure or any prior legislation.
To include language in legislation that targets a single organization is unconstitutional and wrong," ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis said in a statement. Congressman Nadler said it best: The punishment here did not follow some criminal or administrative process with basic due process protections. It flowed out of a Fox News network report, which led the call for a public lynching. There was no statement of charges and no reference to a judicial or administrative finding of wrongdoing by ACORN.'
Lewis added that ACORN is being singled out unfairly -- after a controversy started when employees it later fired appeared to advise conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp on how to skirt the law -- when other groups and corporations are accused of doing much worse."
Much worse? Someone should inform Ms. Lewis that it doesn't get much worse than aiding traffic in child sex slaves. Which makes this all the more pathetic: Trying to justify blatant, wide spread, egregious behavior in a single organization by pointing to other bad, corporate behavior.
As for Lewis' shameless remonstration against 'the punishment', EM over at HA sums it up very nicely:
"This is nonsense, of course; Congress can choose to give cash to organizations, and can also choose not to give cash to organizations. There is no application of due process, because ACORN is not entitled to taxpayer funding."
A fact that is obviously lost on this perverse pack of parasites.
