Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The GOP likes to shoot their own
This time their own are the many government contractors who may have violated the new, GOP driven, sloppily written and hastily passed antiAcorn bill.
Overly-broad language used by lawmakers intending to pull government funding for community organizing group ACORN may have the unintended effect of forcing the government to also pull funds from much of the military-industrial complex, a Tuesday report revealed.Just another moment of excellence in governance brought to us by the Grand Old Batshit Crazy Party.
"The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to 'any organization' that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things," wrote Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grimm.
"In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops."
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