John Nichols: Michael Steele's Nutty ACORN Obsession

[marmar]

from The Nation:



Michael Steele's Nutty ACORN Obsession
posted by John Nichols on 04/11/2009 @ 08:44am


Michael Steele is still the chairman of the Republican National Committee.

He's just being picking fights with people who don't have microphones.

Instead of stirring it up with the real boss of the Grand Old Party, Rush Limbaugh, or with Arlen Specter and the handful of congressional Republicans who might actually want to extend their party's platform beyond the word "no," Steele has returned to the obsessive focus that made him a favorite of the party's neanderthal wing: picking on poor people, working families and the organizations that advocate for people who do not have closets full of pinstripe suits.

To be more precise, Steele is attacking ACORN, charging that the group Republicans attacked with such determination during their failed 2008 campaign is now part of a scheme to "falsify the U.S. Census and manipulate elections in their favor."

"Our democracy, and the principle of 'One Person, One Vote' are in jeopardy," rants Steele in -- you guessed it -- a fund-raising appeal. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/426066/michael_steele_s_nutty_acorn_obsession?rel=hpbox

[Mari333]

1. it must be a talking point because I hear 'acorn' a lot on RW radio

they dont have anything, so they create a boogeyman. people fall for it. bill ayers, and acorn. whatever.