Breaking: While An Anxious Nation Is Transfixed By The Healthcare Debate, The Obama Administration Restores ACORN Funding

While America is distracted by Democrats’ attempts to unconstitutionally ram government-run healthcare down the throats of the American people, the Obama administration began preparing to resume funding to President Obama’s favorite community organizing group.

The fiscal floodgates are opening for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the president’s former employer and legal client, despite a congressional ban on funding the activist group that has long been a practitioner of election fraud.

In a March 16 memo Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Peter Orszag quietly ordered federal agencies to resume funding the group whose employees were caught on hidden camera videos last year condoning a variety of crimes including child prostitution and tax evasion.

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Tags: ACORN, Barack Obama, Nina Gershon, ObamaCare, Peter Orszag
Posted Mar 19th 2010 at 7:59 am in ACORN, Justice/Legal, Obama, federal spending | 92250177 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2010/03/19/breaking-while-an-anxious-nation-is-transfixed-by-the-healthcare-debate-the-obama-administration-restores-acorn-funding/Breaking%3A+While+An+Anxious+Nation+Is+Transfixed+By+The+Healthcare+Debate%2C+The+Obama+Administration+Restores+ACORN+Funding2010-03-19+14%3A59%3A00Matthew+Vadum

Lindsey Graham: For Cap and Trade, Except When He’s Not

From the “Imagine if a Democrat did this” files – say, in the context of opposing President Obama’s effort to transform our health care insurance and delivery systems . It seems that a Republican Senator has been outed as hopping in the sack with an advocacy group from the other team, itself exposed as financing ads on his behalf in support of his abandoning what has become a marquee issue for his party.

Oh, and to top it off, his staff began by deceiving about it and end (for now) by telling a whopper in the struggle to avoid scrutiny over the mess.

That is, however, precisely what’s going on in the Palmetto State, at least according to this report about the latest twist in the long, strange saga of Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Without reciting the story ably summarized by a Gamecock writer, the whopper told in the scramble is this, offered by “Graham’s top South Carolina strategist, Richard Quinn” – as well as to others I have spoken to who have recently called the Senator’s office seeking to inquire about the oddity:

“‘Lindsey doesn’t support Cap & Trade and he will not support Cap & Trade,’ Quinn told us flatly.”

Except when he does.

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Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming, John Kerry
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 8:37 am in Congress, Environment, Politics | 2486684 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/04/lindsey-graham-for-cap-and-trade-except-when-hes-not/Lindsey+Graham%3A+For+Cap+and+Trade%2C+Except+When+He%27s+Not2009-11-04+15%3A37%3A33Christopher+C.+Horner

ObamaCare Box Score — Conservatives 1 – Liberals 0

The first game in a long series of Obamacare battles is complete and the liberals lost Game 1 by 13 votes.  The Senate voted against a procedural motion to debate the so-called “Doc Fix” bill Wednesday.  Just as Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles Dodgers has taken a beating in the media for leaving Game 5 of the National League Championship Series early to take a shower and hitting a mere .250 for the series, Senator Harry Reid has taken a beating in the press for marching the Democrat Caucus into a losing vote in the first battle over Obamacare.

A bipartisan coalition of senators concerned about spending stopped Senators Reid from bringing “Doc Fix” to a vote with 13 Democrats siding with the entire Republican Caucus.  Democrat Senators Evan Bayh of Indiana, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Bill Nelson of Florida, Jon Tester of Montana, Mark Warner and Jim Webb of Virgina, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Independent Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut all opposed the motion to start debate on the bill.

The strategy to pass the “Doc Fix” outside of Obamacare in an attempt to buy off doctors groups’ support for Obamacare was documented in the media.  The Hill reported earlier this week that “the White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal:  They’ll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors’ support of healthcare reform.”  Clearly the majority of senators would not go along with this strategy because the $247 billion price tag for the bill was too high to buy Obamacare. 

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Tags: American Medical Association, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Doc Fix, Harry Reid
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 7:15 am in Congress, Healthcare, Politics | 1971019 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/10/23/obamacare-box-score-conservatives-1-liberals-0/ObamaCare+Box+Score+--+Conservatives+1+%E2%80%93+Liberals+02009-10-23+14%3A15%3A04Brian+Darling