1. President Obama claimed Sunday morning that he wasn’t “following” the ACORN scandal “that closely.” Really? Anybody buying that bridge? Obama has been deeply involved with ACORN since the early 1990s; the group gave political birth to him. He was knee-deep in its activities, serving as its lawyer for a while, partnering with them on his “Project Vote” in Chicago, working with them through the Woods Foundation (of which Bill Ayers was a big part), and serving as a trainer for new ACORN recruits. ACORN, of course, infamously engaged in massive and widespread voter fraud on his behalf last year, and is now under investigation in 20 states for it. And Obama isn’t following the story? Doesn’t know much about it? He’s either not telling the truth, or he doesn’t watch the news or read a paper. Didn’t the Left make fun of President Bush as someone who didn’t pick up a paper?
2. In case you missed it: last week, the House Ethics Committee put off the investigation into Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. as to whether he tried to buy Obama’s newly vacant Senate seat. This is the same scandal that ensnared impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and new Senator Roland Burris. The Ethics Committee, under direction from Bat Crazy Pelosi, just put the investigation into Jackson on ice.
3. In case you missed it #2: the Massachusetts legislature moved last week to change the law to get Ted Kennedy’s replacement into the Senate a lot faster. The Senate Democrats, you see, need a warm Democratic body in there if they are going to have any hope of reaching 60 votes to pass their radical health care plan. Ironically, Kennedy himself had the current law enacted to deny the then-Republican Governor, Mitt Romney, a chance of replacing John Kerry in the Senate, if Kerry had won the presidency. Democrats don’t seem to think about the voters much: if they want something political done, they just change the law on a whim.
4. In case you missed it #3: Congressman Charlie Rangel is still bobbing and weaving as the House Ethics Committee hems and haws about his massive tax problems. The guy who writes the nation’s tax laws didn’t pay taxes on millions of dollars of property and assets? No problem! Sister Pelosi will see to it that all of the bad things just go away.
And the beat goes on.
Next year, every member of Congress is up for re-election, as well as a choice collection of Senators. Throw the bums out? Yes. All of them.
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