But buck up, Joe. The GOP, by running candidates like Mark Kirk for US Senate in Illinois and Jon Husted for Secretary of State in Ohio (to name only a couple), continues to demonstrate that it is perfectly capable of selling out sensible conservatism for the illusory and passing feel-good moment.

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From Erick at RedState " “A Review of ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis’s Rolodex Suggests Strong White House Ties”:
RedState has seen a list of Bertha Lewis’s contacts. We did not seek it out. It just showed up one day unsolicited. We did not ask for it. We did not expect to get it. But now that we have it, we should see who is in there.

The President can say “I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money,” but a review of Ms. Lewis’s contacts list suggests that is not the case.
What a non-surprise. But having the goods is quite helpful.

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BigGovernment.com is all over the Obama administration’s co-opting of the arts community through the National Endowment for the Arts to promote its own agenda, with likely quid pro quos to boot. Just keep scrolling.

This is at best unethical, and at worst (and likely) illegal. Readers can finish the “if Bush had tried this” sentence themselves.