It's gettin' raucous in the Baucus Caucus(down to one person).

It's funny, but I can't find anything anywhere on this site about the ACORN controversy. What's up with that?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jxhq8CPN8LdLntDEDtE5NrEBQ2IgD9ANCH580

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.

The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.

The Senate's move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.

Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.

Just last week, the Census Bureau severed its ties with ACORN, saying it does not want the group's help in outreach efforts on the decennial count

Laugh AWAY, libruls! You're probably all agents OF ACORN, TOO! Just you wait until we SHOW you the secret photos we got OF their secret underground headquarters from whence, WHILE wearing his Mao jacket and PETTING a Persian cat, Obama gives orders to his obsequious MINIONS to further his scheme for global domination. (The penalty FOR failure is death!)

Except of course that Obama is not himself actually an evil genius but, rather, an affirmative action lackey of subnormal intelligence who merely pretends to be the head of this nefarious organization but, in fact, only reads the orders of his secret mysterious handlers from a hidden teleprompter.

I wish Senator Rockefeller was Chair of the Finance Committee! I hope Baucus gets removed. He is bound to be counterproductive on every issue.

No Public Option/No mandate! Triggers are for guns, and are a complete scam and a joke when it comes to legislation.

What about Schumer and Kerry?

No public option = No Mandate.

Seriously. I want a public option as much as the next guy and I want universal coverage as much as the next guy, too. But, I can't get universal coverage without a public option. There's no way you can tell a guy making $60,000 with three kids and a wife to go shell out $15,000 for health insurance because the law requires him to get health insurance. No way.

In general, I am not a fan of individual mandates, but I am especially an opponent of such mandates without a fairly priced public option.

Wyden thinks the bill sucks too and so does Kerry. Reid is so worried that he will be having a special caucus meeting on Thursday to go over the Baucus bill with the Senate Democrats. It's time the Democrats just do the bill themselves and just twist Voinovich's arm at the end to vote for it to get 60 votes.