To: longnshort who wrote (482148 ) 5/19/2009 9:12:30 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to You guys have been complaining about Barney Frank and ACORN. As it turns out, the Bush administration put in Acorn as funding recipient, not Frank. Watch the vid clip and see Frank slap down that ridiculous Congresswoman Bachmann. What has my home state of MN come to electing an idiot like her to Congress??? Barney Frank Faces Down Bachmann On ACORN Funding Frank pointed out that far from being a bunch of Democratic cronies, ACORN's housing work received a lot of funding from the Bush Administration, as part of the general Republican idea of contracting out community activities instead of growing the federal workforce. As for the substance of Bachmann's amendment, he argued that the low bar of criminal accusation against individual members would give too much power to a prosecutor to go after a group -- and could affect folks such as AIPAC, whose indicted members later saw all the charges against them dropped, or even the House Republicans when Tom DeLay was indicted.tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
