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Nancy Pelosi is Clueless... About ACORN Funding Controversy

by Tina Kells | September 17, 2009 at 04:07 pm

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Nancy Pelosi is clueless, not about everything, just about the government reactions to the recent ACORN controversies. Both the US Senate and the House passed a resolution to suspend funding to ACORN after the community-activist organization was hit with various charges that brought its core ethics under fire. Even the White House has demanded that ACORN answer the allegations made against it.

But it seems, by her own admissions, that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is out of the loop, and without a clue, on this hot bed issue. "I don't even know what they (the Senate) passed. What did they do? They defunded it?"

The vote was preceded by the release of videos by conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute soliciting -- and receiving -- tips from ACORN employees about how to shield income, avoid taxes and set up a brothel.

The issue now goes to a House-Senate conference committee for a spending bill. Its fate is up to Democratic leaders, particularly Pelosi, since the House passed no such provision.

Some fellow lawmakers were surprised that Pelosi wasn't following the issue.

"I think that she's not focused on the issue of corruption," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who has been hammering ACORN.