The world’s attention on Tuesday will be on President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan.
But in a corner of Capitol Hill, Republicans will be doing their best to keep alive the controversy over ACORN, the community advocacy group.
Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees announced today they will host a forum at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday “examining new details that have come to light regarding the inner workings of ACORN.”
Prompted mostly by Republican outrage over videos showing ACORN staffers advising how to skirt the law, Congress believed it had cut off federal funding to ACORN. But President Obama’s Justice Department ruled last week that because of technicalities with the wording of the bill, ACORN would continue to be paid from existing government contracts, mostly helping low-income people find affordable housing.
As I’ve mentioned, Holder circumvented the intent of Congress in his ruling. Perhaps this is why it’s important to remain on that warpath.
Leading the charge, obviously, is Big Government, where Matthew Vadum had an important article up this morning discussing Holder’s deafness regarding the ethically challenged organization, and now Publius discloses that ACORN worked in concert with NBC to produce a hidden-camera “sting” video regarding a tax preparer. It is to laugh, as well as to complicate AG Moonbeam’s intended whitewash.
