FOX: Why Won't Conyers Probe ACORN?
Glenn Beck wondered aloud on his TV program Friday why House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan) still isn’t investigating the radical activist group ACORN.
On the “Glenn Beck Program,” the host recounted the sordid saga that has unfolded in the Judiciary Committee over the last few months.
On March 19, after a Judiciary subcommittee received testimony that ACORN had violated a host of tax, voter registration, campaign finance, and other laws, Conyers said the allegations were “a pretty serious matter.” After being urged to take action by Conyers, civil rights subcommittee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) said he would consider holding a hearing on ACORN if he heard credible evidence about wrongdoings.
On May 4 Conyers abruptly changed course and said he didn’t believe a hearing about ACORN was justified. In a case of bad timing, the same day ACORN and two former senior executives in Nevada had been charged with felony voter-registration fraud.
Beck said Nadler, who was endorsed by the ACORN-affiliated Working Families Party (whose goal is to help push the Democratic Party ever-further toward the political left), may have pressured Conyers to back off ACORN.
A month ago Conyers told a reporter that he wasn’t proceeding with an investigation of ACORN because “the powers that be decided against it.” It should be noted that Conyers is a longtime ally of ACORN.
The congressman refused to explain who “the powers” might be, but his spokesman claimed, implausibly, that Conyers was referring to himself as “the powers that be.”
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The “powers that be” is not Conyers himself ( undoubtedly preoccupied by the knowledge that his wife may go to jail after pleading guilty of conspiracy to bribery and wondering whether some possible involvement by himself may yet surface in the continuing federal investigation of related matters). The “powers” in question is undoubtedly Obama himself, long an ally and supporter of ACORN and related groups. Remember a couple of weeks ago, an ACORN activist said that ACORN was nothing more than “community organizers” like the president himself. So, while Islamic terrorists continue to murder American military people and others around the world, and those like ACORN will continue to bore from within to destroy the American system, Congress will investigate the CIA and others who defend this Republic. One is tempted to cry or laugh, at least we have Joe Biden and that goofy new senator from Minnesota to laugh at.
Hopefully someone will push for the investigation. This is an outrage.
Are you kidding ? A black democrat with commmittee power investigating anothe black controled vot feeder/ Are you nuts? You must have had your head in the sand for a lot of years.
The fact that anyone is surprised is a suprise.
This is a no-brainer. Corrupt individuals and organizations ARE the Democratic Party. Who in their right mind would expect Democrats to investigate one of Obama’s favorite organizations which without them many Democrats would not be “elected” (including Obama)?
There’s a very UN civil war brewing folks.