Michelle Malkin liveblogged the Senate vote earlier this evening on the issue of funding ACORN in the current transportation and appropriations bill. Tonight, they voted 83-7 to not include funding for ACORN in those bills, which was a welcome sight to see, considering their routine funding and praising of them during the Bush administration in spite of the repeated instances of corruption and wrongdoing that were widespread across the country.
Don Surber has a good round-up of latest attacks on Rep. Joe Wilson coming from, you guessed it, Obama’s willing helpers in the MSM. He reports on a story from The Hill about how Wilson admitted in 2007 that he was a pill-popper … a NoDoz caffeine pill-popper. Gasp!
The NYT, the WaPo, the AP – all have lead stories about Congressman Joe Wilson’s “liar” outburst last night during Obama’s speech. Gee, who would have predicted that?
Can’t say I disagree with anything DeMint has suggested in this interview Greta Van Susteren did with him last night. Instead of generalities about the bill and blind attacks at any and all opposition to it, DeMint want’s details from the President and has challenged Obama to point to specific sections of the bill and explain them, and has even offered to go over the bill line by line with him – something Ed Morrissey reminds us that Obama himself said he would do with Congress on the healthcare bill back in July.
