Amendment 2358, Recognizing Vitter's Big Cojones

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has filed an amendment on the Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill, which is now being debated on the Senate floor to prohibit any use of funds in the bill to ACORN. The move comes after ACORN office workers in Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC, were caught last week on hidden video camera advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp on how to hide their crimes. In 2007, Vitter publicly apologized for his connection to an alleged prostitution ring in Washington, DC, and weathered accusations that he frequented a pricey brothel in his hometown of New Orleans. But one wonders if Vitter, who clearly skirted the law when he solicited prostitutes, is the right guy to advocate banning ACORN from receiving funds. After all, Vitter himself may well have been a beneficiary of such ACORN services and never even knew it....

Comments

[eddiefi]

All the wingnuts are scared that the government might take over the banks and health care! What do they think about who is running them now? Do they not see how much they have stolen and diverted away from what they are really needed for. Everything in this country does not have to for profit! When are we going to wake up and work together to help all the average people in this country.

[jonmonbuckeye]

ACORN broke the law, and they will suffer the consequences of their actions. That being said, it should be noted how difficult it is for organizations to monitor the activities of all of its members. If that were possible, then the Republican party would be reduced to some old white guy in Georgia.

[missmanners]

Perhaps Acorn should change their name.

It worked for Blackwater.

[DanSteSr]

What all on here fail to realize is that what they're doing was a huge factor in the financial mess the country is in now. There setting up mortgages for people who have no buisness having a mortgage. So how many have they done before these tapes came out. but the bankers are the bad guys

[jimme]

Proof please. Don't make accusations without some proof to back it up.

And NO! Beck,Limp,and fake News doesn't count.

[LeftLeanWing]

ACORN has never SET UP Mortgages for anyone. That another one of those Republican lies that you've bought into.....

Your leadership can evidently get you to believe anything without any proof or logic.. by simple incantation.

[adoantarel]

Actually, the mortgages made under the community reinvestment act had markedly low foreclosure rates. You've been mislead by propaganda.

[DanSteSr]

What all on here fail to realize is that what they're doing was a huge factor in the financial mess the country is in now. There setting up mortgages for people who have no buisness having a mortgage. So how many have they done before these tapes came out. but the bankers are the bad guys

[DanSteSr]

What all you fail to see is this is what started the huge financial mess we are in now, people owning homes that have no buisness taking out a mortgage, so how many were set up by ACORN before the tapes came out. But its the bankers who are the bad guys.

[ramal]

The Republican "Leadership" let Vitter slide with his female prostitute flings. They were absolutely thrilled with the publicity showing that it wasn't a Gay sex scandal.

[tel8034]

Haven't you figured it out by now?

President Obama has become the poster child of FAMILY VALUES ..........­... There is no doubt that he loves his wife and daughters (and they love him back), it's obvious that they are the most important people in his life, he spends quality time with them, he is out everywhere talking about the importance of fatherhood and leads by example, he actually dates his wife and he doesn't wait for "special occasions to "escort" her out, and there are NO SEX SCANDALS clouding his life.

So if President Obama is seen as having impeccable family values, and because the rethugs hate EVERYTHING about him, then the rethugs MUST rally around the OPPOSITE ..........­..........

They must rally around the Appalachian hikers, and those with prominent listings in the black books of famous Madams. ..........­........ To hell with family values....­....... And since family values and President Obama are forever entwined, and NO rethuglican wants to be like him.......­.......

Therefore the rethugs have rejected the family values platform which they claimed to own for decades, and now Vitter is their man of business.

[Avanti2]

ACORN was caught again in there NYC-Queens Office, offering to help there potential client skirt the law in order to help obtain Federal Housing Funds. Three offices, all which offered to help the client defraud the Government and the American Taxpayer.

What a scam artist operation ACORN appears to be. They need to be de-funded. Let counselors in local banks advise on how to apply for Federal Housing Funds and Mortgage Assistance. Banks are regulated and audited. At least we would be assured that Federal Funds are being properly accounted for.

[huffyISaHottie]

i agree with you about Acorn...bu­t your trust in banks is pathetic

[rubberstamp]

yes the banks ...

Do you even know what you are suggesting?

[FeloniusMonk]

And why then have federal funds involved at all if these wonderful magnanimous banks who are so knowledgeable can supply the information? After all, they're going to look after their own self interests, so you are suggesting we fund them for bringing in potential customers. That's not free enterprise.

[jsgaetano]

Banks... they just made trillions of dollars evaporate.

Yeah, I'm gonna trust them... right... FAR right....

[vlm1948]

What planet were you on when the Wall Street/Banker Bailout occurred? The reason so many people couldn't pay their mortgages had a small amount to do with Acorn and alot to do with Banks making mortgages that were unrealistic and then bundling them and selling them to someone else, thereby making a huge profit and getting rid of the risks involved with these risky mortgages.

[useyourbrain]

By Vitter's logic, most of the Republic caucus would have to be kicked out of Congress without pay.

WTF? Two people messed up and that defines the whole organization? Duy! What does that say about the RNC?

[jsgaetano]

I'm still wondering why the GOP hasn't been shut down on a RICO charge.

They are a criminal organization, and someone needs to take action.

[chomedey]

Means he got big cojones wowowowowowow

[InTheSouth]

Another republican distortion. The day they get things straight, I'll pass out.

[Overlady]

ust a note to the author. The word cojones is a Spanish word being used everywhere by the mass media. It may offend some hispanic readers. It is considered a very bad and nasty word by most Hispanic countries. It means balls in the worst sence of the word. It's really funny for me, a Hispanic woman, when I read it. The rest of my family, eaither laughs, become alarmed or perplexed when they see this word published. The FCC may have not sensored it due to them not knowing what it means. Just wanted to give the heads up :-)

[chomedey]

WOW,,, ohohohohoho that is something in the mouth of the gops

[bzb]

The GOP attempts to suppress the minority vote for the 2010 mid-term.