It’s brilliant, actually:
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It raises cash for Republicans.
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It makes it more likely that Democrats will participate in the real census.
Republicans may have no ethics, but they know how to play dictatorship politics.
Stephen Moore has officially withdrawn from his Fed nomination.
Oh, thank fuck. That guy has scared the crap out of me for a couple of decades. I don’t know why anyone listens to him. He’s the perfect Trump pick: A total phony and a shyster, making his living by lying whichever way the wind blows. And a creepy misogynist to boot.
Actually, I might be wrong about that. But in a good way.
Two hours ago, Moore was saying he’s all in.
Then the WH announced “Naw, ain’t going to do it.”
So Moore… like Comey… may have found out he withdrew via a TV set. 
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Ugh, he makes my skin crawl! (But then, they all do.)
I see the crooked paw of the Grim Reaper in this. “No, Donny. He’s too awful even for Republicans.”
It was probably the blatant misogyny and just enough Republicans in high places pretending to care about it that did him in.
The trade off in getting Republicans to shy away from hiring blatant misogynists and saying male chauvinistic things is draconian anti-abortion and basically anti-human laws. The more dignity that women demand in the workplace and in the classroom, the less they’ll have in a doctor’s office.
Not to mention being almost completely devoid of actual knowledge of economics.
Chuck Grassley said he got ACORN’s tax returns for “legislative purposes,” but Dems want Trump’s for “political purposes.”
“It’s black and white.”
Former ACORN exec Bertha Lewis agrees: “We were black and they were white."
The Republicans murdered ACORN because it frightened them. Sucks, but also reassuring.
Money post.
Yeah, that pretty much what it comes down to. Despite the “Har! Har! Nudge! Nudge! Get this, Obama’s a 'community organizer,” Republicans were shitting in their pants because they knew that Obama was pretty good at this social entrepreneurship stuff and had built ACORN into a successful grassroots organization that could empower people in places that had been effectively disenfranchised.
Talk about leading with your chin, Chuck! A downside for the Pubs and their dearth of funny members is that they don’t have people to bounce their statements off who can see the comebacks. Fun for us, though. 
I’ve actually asked 'pubbies of my acquaintance and relationship (as in my relatives) this; however, I’ve yet to receive an answer other than doubling down on the ranting:
What the fuck is wrong with being a community organizer?
Ah, you know, those community organizers <spit!> are all communists and socialists.
I think the jab was meant to suggest that he’s not a businessman and that all he does is lead marches - that he was unqualified to administer anything beyond a protest. And of course there are some racial undertones with that message (i.e. Obama is black, didn’t really deserve to get into Harvard, probably couldn’t run a lemonade stand, etc.).
In reality, he was the editor of the Harvard Review, and although I’m neither a Harvard Alum nor a lawyer, I’ve read over the years that Harvard takes its publications pretty damn seriously. They’re not going to let a person of color fuck it up just because they feel sorry for him/her - that’s a post reserved for the intellectual elite.
And also in reality, social entrepreneurship, while different from for-profit business, is no less challenging. For one thing, the bulk of whatever work you do gets done by people who don’t get paid for it, so you have to be pretty damn good at persuading thousands upon thousands of people to do shit for free. And even better at asking people to give you money to keep the electricity on and staff paid. Not as easy as it looks. But most of all, political organizations are going to make enemies, and thus, they’re going to get scrutiny, just as ACORN ultimately did.
Not to mention that you have to cough up financial records every year.
You’re not using your God-given talents to do something useful, you know, like making gobs of money by ripping other people off.
Reported.
Indeed, it was enough of a big deal that it was reported on in the New York Times at the time.
That just proves the NYT has altered their original article in their web version. And, if people check in libraries that have microfilms of the NYT and find it is there too, that will just show the extent of the deception: They have actually gone to all the libraries around the world and exchanged the original microfilm! :rolleyes:
I asked a (moderate, NOT Trump-supporting) Republican friend this question well before the 2016 election, and her reply was that community organizing/social work/charity work is a hobby or vocation that you volunteer for in your spare time, not a proper full-time job. My reply was that firefighter is also not a full-time job in rural areas and small towns (volunteer firefighters) but IS a full-time job in a large metropolitan area … like Chicago. :smack: