Which Democrats Bought Into Vitters' Anti-ACORN Bait?

Community organizers: dangerous to criminal Republican banksters

Yesterday the Republicans-- all of them-- united around their fear and loathing for community activism. One of their more extremist members, David Diapers Vitter (R-LA), whose idea of activism is dressing up in a diaper and getting spanked by high-paid call girls in Washington DC or New Orleans, introduced another frivilous amendment to the Stimulus Bill, S. Amdt.107. The purpose is no prohibit "direct or indirect use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)." It was rejected, but just barely. Just barely? Have a dozen confused Democrats joined all the Republicans in supporting Vitter's red-meat-for-Limbaugh nonsense. The Democrats:

Max Baucus (MT)
Evan Bayh (IN)
Robert Byrd (WV)
Kay Hagan (NC)
Ben Nelson (NE)
Jon Tester (MT)

America's most vicious xenophobe, CNN hatemonger Lou Dobbs, along with some of the trashiest and most deranged and bigoted far right GOP propagandists sounded the alarm for the nation's paranoid reactionaries. Virtually nothing in her screed is true:

ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying.

...Talk about subsidizing failure. These are the same activists that helped sow the seeds of the subprime meltdown. They aggressively played the race card and pressured banks to loosen standards, throw out down payments and lend to some of the nation’s riskiest borrowers. Now, these mobs protest across the country, disrupt foreclosure auctions, threaten bank executives and accuse lenders of, yep, racism for lending to those riskiest of borrowers.

This is the Republican mindset and above are the names of the six Democrats who bought into it. I'm ashamed for Robert Byrd and Jon Tester. The other 4 are really just Republicans anyway and it makes perfect sense that they would vote against the interests of working families. Dick Durbin (D-IL) tried showing these sad excuses for Democrats how to stand up to a barrage like this from right-wing extremists. Clearly, it isn't enough to just elect Democrats. That whole "more Democrats" idea is bankrupt. BETTER Democrats is the only way to go. Had Schumer not intervened in the North Carolina primary, we would have had Jim Neil standing with Dick Durbin (and Chuck Schumer), not Kay Hagan standing with Jim DeMint, Miss McConnell, Rush Limbaugh and David Diapers Vitter.