Congress Told To Stop ACORN Investigation

It's almost spooky (yes, in a bad way) how similar what is happening in America today resembles what happened in Europe prior to and after World War 2. A dissatisfied populace elects a charismatic, hopeful leader that promises to restore the nation to respectability (which some places, like Germany after WW1, really had lost, but which the US didn't actually lose but the press convinced people it had lost) and get the trains running on time again (even though they were already running fine).

Italy got Mussolini. Germany got Hitler. Russian got Stalin. More or less all in the same way. Suddenly all those promises went out the window. Dissidents were at first silenced and ridiculed with the help of willing propagandists like our press. Later, worse would be done to them. Political allies were airbrushed and any wrongdoing was covered up - again with the aid of accomplices. The government became the source of all...well, everything. Anyone that dares say 'you can't say Obama is a socialist' has not the first inkling of what socialism is or what happens when a charismatic, politically savvy but inept-in-execution demagogue is placed in power with no checks or balances. Kids certainly aren't learning this stuff in school anymore, they were barely learning it when I was in school a couple decades ago. You know the old saw about not learning from history as well as I do. Obama's official campaign slogan should have been 'Rinse. Repeat.'

In one swell foop the decline of America appears on the fast track and the liberal minority in America is cheering it on. They think that socialist utopia is just around the corner. But except from extraordinarily small, isolated examples (where the practice cannot even be complete), socialism never leads to utopia except for a few select elites, animals that are more equal than the other animals. Socialism has never, ever led to anything except piles of corpses, be it in China, Russia, Italy, Cuba, or Germany. Europe, perhaps, is showing that maybe the frog can tell that the water is boiling and they seem to be trying to jump out of the socialist pot before it starts to boil and becomes the full-blown disaster that ravaged their continent.

Following the other examples that have been thoroughly covered (sometimes by the press, Rex, but sometimes by "bloggers" - incidentally, Rex, per your Saturday column, had I not done the research necessary, I would never have known that the latest Ponzi scheme millionaire, R. Allen Stanford, was a HEAVY contributor to Democrats (including NY Democrats), because the press either can't or won't do that research) including the refusal of the black AG to a partially black President to prosecute blatant acts of voter intimidation by armed black men spouting racist epithets at poll workers and voters at a voting station. The latest example is an apparent act by the administration to keep Congerss from investigation the corrupt group, ACORN, that had deep and long ties to Obama, including his giving them buckets of money to conduct get out the vote drives to get people to register and/or vote for him any number of times using bogus on their face names. Because this civilian unofficial Obama PAC can be used by the administration in all sorts of unregulated ways (much the way Obama is appointing dozens of "czars" who are neither elected nor confirmed by the legislature to conduct business including secret, off the record deals over emissions) including to use them to politicize and potentially destroy the validity of the 2010 census while routing millions to them now not from his campaign coffers but in his budgets and spending bills, Congress has apparently been told not to look into the illegal and shady practices of ACORN, an Obama ally:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying "powers that be" put the kibosh on the idea.

Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style "protection" racket.

"The powers that be decided against it," Mr. Conyers told The Washington Times.

The chairman declined to elaborate, shrugging off questions about who told him how to run his committee and give the Democrat-allied group a pass...

Capitol Hill Democrats had bristled at proposed hearings because it threatened to rekindle criticism of the financial ties and close cooperation between President Obama's campaign and ACORN and its sister organizations Citizens Services Inc. and Project Vote.

The groups came under fire during the campaign after probes into possible voter fraud in a series of presidential battleground states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico and Nevada.

ACORN and its affiliates are currently the target of at least 14 lawsuits related to voter fraud in the 2008 election and a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act complaint filed by former ACORN members.

The timing is also interesting, with his wife just pleading guilty to taking bribes...maybe someone said that that could be kept off the front pages and buried in exchange for a little back patting?

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