Keep up the good work!

Jim R and Woody also didn’t comment on my link above about where the treasurer for the GOP was found to have embezzled far more money from his own party than any ACORN insider had ever filched from ACORN.

When you put it all together, well, the GOP doesn’t look a whole lot better than ACORN — IF you attribute all misbehavior by individuals to the organization itself. But would that be fair to the GOP? Of course not!

At least, I wouldn’t do that. In particular, I would never take seriously the notion that the GOP is “intentionally structured as a criminal enterprise,” just because of a few bad apples, even if some of those bad apples were bobbing up near the top.

But that such calm, level-headed, fact-based, benefit-of-the-doubt reasoning appears to be something that Darrell Issa is apparently incapable of.

Of course, the conclusions of Issa’s report colimb down quite some distance down the flagpole from the wife-beating charge implied by its flapping banner of a title:

“On the basis of this Report, the legal protections distinguishing ACORN and its affiliates must be ignored because the ability to ascertain whether federal moneys are being walled off from ACORN’s political activities is impracticable. As a result, ACORN and its Council of affiliates represent a politically partisan lobbying organization. ACORN and its affiliates’ nonprofit exemptions and receipt of federal grants must therefore bear greater scrutiny.”

OK. Bring it on, Darrell. But think carefully about the end product of any equitable, apolitical, nonpartisan application of justice along such lines. Which side of the aisle will end up looking worse, in the end, if the corruption yardstick is the obvious one: how much money bought how much juice?

Why am I thinking of beams, motes and eyes right now?

Obviously you have no idea what that is.

I want the old MT back.

The House and Senate have them. Or, maybe the same edited version you think you saw, but with an overwhelmingly different conclusion.

Don’t make me laugh. That’s gone the way of intelligent right-wingers you could feel real some respect for.

Woody’s ongoing problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between an opinion piece and a bit of reportage.

If you can’t show me that, you don’t have much, except insults like “pimp for ACORN” to throw around. And everyone here can see it.

That is all they’ve got.

Surely, if Pimp James and Ho Hannah had that, they’d would have turned it over to the police, and those staffers would be behind bars today, right? Surely, if they had that, it would be easier to supply it to us than to supply these edited versions, right?

If you can’t show me that, you don’t have much, except insults like “pimp for ACORN” to throw around. And everyone here can see it.

You’re getting nowhere with this tack, so, of course, you change the subject. OK. What’s the Obama administration doing about military technology links leaks to China? Throwing people who leak sensitive information in jail, for one thing.

When’s the last time anybody saw our Secretary of State? Well, just the other day, in fact, warning Venezuela on its arms import policies.

Oops. I guess you’ll have to try another angle. I guess you’ll have to move along to yet ANOTHER subject. While loudly pretending there’s no evidence that contradicted anything you said. Maybe fling an insult or two as you move on. That seems to be the default GOP propaganda strategy these days. The Grand Old Party isn’t so Grand anymore, I guess. But it’s sure getting old. Fast.

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While we discuss gnats, Obama is getting our country screwed over in world and defense matters. Russia, North Korea, Iran, China, Cuba, and Venezuela all see that Obama is weak and are taking advantage of him and us. This carries a price larger than any phony stimulus or socialized medicine plans…or, the Iraq War. This is pretty serious business.

Why don’t you guys quit being cheerleaders for this incompetent, over-his-head President and start caring about our country and that Obama’s going to leave us as a second rate power? When’s the last time that anyone saw our Secretary of State?

Don’t you have anything to say about international affairs or are you just concerned with swiping money from those who earned it?