The Acorn Tapes.....& Congress

By now, you've doubtless heard of the ACORN video tapes. These are the set of videos produced by an undercover team- a woman and a producer- who visited several of the group's offices posing as a prostitute and her pimp. They captured video evidence of ACORN workers knowingly assisting them in getting funding, housing and legal help for setting up a brothel of underage foreign girls.

Here's one of the YouTube videos containing the actual footage.



Perhaps the most incredible part of this story is the reaction of members of Congress.

In just about a week since Fox and Glenn Beck broke the story on cable news, pressure increased on ACORN, the renegade community activist/organizing ally of Wonderboy. First, the Census Bureau cut all ties to ACORN for the upcoming decennial census.

Then Congress voted to cut funding for ACORN. However, even with the five explicit videos documenting ACORN staffers' abetting and aiding illegal activities, the group still has friends on the Hill.

A handful of Representatives voted not to cut off funding. Uber-liberal Barney Frank of Massachusetts obfuscated on how he would vote, conveniently ducked the vote, then, after it passed, said he would have voted with the majority.

Illinois' appointed Senator, Roland Burris, captured below on video, supported the group, along with three others in the upper chamber- Dick Durbin, the state's senior Senator, and Hillary Clinton's appointed replacement from New York.



Amazingly, Barney Frank spent most of his energy decrying the team that went undercover to document ACORN's workers using taxpayer money to support illegal activities, including underage prostitution using imported underage girls.

Frank refused to focus on the ACORN activities and, instead, insisted that the real issue was whether the young man and woman, in gathering the video and audio evidence, had violated any state or federal wiretapping laws.

Just incredible.