Heckuva Job, Michele Bachmann
So, let’s review the bidding . . .
ACORN is on the ropes thanks to the fact that various ACORN branches were caught engaging in the business of facilitating the creation and running of prostitution rings.
And yet, House Democrats were able to ensure that ACORN–and similar organizations–could participate in government-sponsored financial protection boards, thanks to a badly crafted amendment by Rep. Michele Bachmann. The amendment was badly crafted because it failed to anticipate all of the various contingencies that could be followed by Democrats in giving ACORN a seat at the table. While Bachmann was successful at preventing ACORN from getting a seat at the table of a lesser financial protection board, the organization can now claim a place at a more important financial protection board because House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank played the parliamentary game better Bachmann did.
