• February 15, 2012

Time is running out but there is enough time—but like barely though—to fill you in on what you need to know on a need-to-know basis: The House Republicans have formed a committee. It is called the “GOP ACORN Rapid Response Committee” or “GOPACORNRRCmte,” although it probably has a secret code name. There’s no time to speculate about what the secret code name may be. Its members include the crucial Representatives Patrick McHenry, Darrell Issa, and Michele Bachmann. The aims of said committee include:

  1. Defunding the ACORNS as swiftly as possible.
  2. Presumably developing training exercises that will allow them to defund the ACORNS in some kind of cool hyperspeed.

Here’s another thing you need to know: The GOP ACORN Rapid Response Committee is ready when you are. They’re also ready now.

[Ben Smith]

{ 70 comments }

ManchuCandidate September 16, 2009 at 10:46 am

Go Go GOPAcRRCmte! Sometimes you feel like a nut.

Noonan September 16, 2009 at 10:46 am

Huh?

Noonan September 16, 2009 at 10:47 am

That’s nuts.

Way Cool Larry September 16, 2009 at 10:47 am

“Darrell Issa and Michele Bachmann”

I guess it takes nuts to battle nuts!

Come here a minute September 16, 2009 at 10:48 am

Code name TRUCKNUTZ

memzilla September 16, 2009 at 10:49 am

Figures that the Republitards would staff their ACORN Committee with their most extreme WingNuts.

AngryBlakGuy September 16, 2009 at 10:49 am

…is this like the GOP version of the “A-Team”?

Min September 16, 2009 at 10:50 am

Hell hath no furry like an ACORN’d Republican.

the problem child September 16, 2009 at 10:53 am

So, basically, the the GOP are going to go all squirrelly again?

comicbookguy September 16, 2009 at 10:53 am

When the census counters are in your neighborhood, and they’re asking you the size of your brood…

Who you gonna call?

the problem child September 16, 2009 at 10:53 am

[re=412003]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Yeah, but without the angry black guy.

ManchuCandidate September 16, 2009 at 10:55 am

[re=412003]AngryBlakGuy[/re]:
Yes, except everyone’s Howling Mad Murdock.

Servo September 16, 2009 at 10:58 am

Country First?

AngryBlakGuy September 16, 2009 at 10:58 am

[re=412008]the problem child[/re]: …Michael Steele? Nah, not nearly black or angry enough! Maybe they can get Charles Barkley to re-join the Republican party?

rachelv September 16, 2009 at 10:59 am

GARRC?

Don’t you mean oliGARRChy??????

McDuff September 16, 2009 at 11:02 am

Enough of this GOP terror-mongering. Time for Al Gore and his Vice Presidential Action Rangers to take names, kick butt, and protect the space-time continuum.

Marlowe September 16, 2009 at 11:03 am

They can have my nutz when they pry them from my cold dead hands.

jetjaguar September 16, 2009 at 11:04 am

Red herring much?

gurukalehuru September 16, 2009 at 11:04 am

If you go for a walk in the park after dark
beware, beware, beware of the GARCC
its teeth are as sharp as the great white shark
its skin is rougher than hickory bark
its beady eyes shoot laser sparks
that sear your soul and make their mark
eh, I’ve plum run out of snark…

AnnieGetYourFun September 16, 2009 at 11:05 am

Oh, ACORN, why did you have to go and be all illegal and ghetto on tape? You know, like a Republican Congressman?

norbizness September 16, 2009 at 11:05 am

These are chickenshit tactics; those ardent reactionaries in Congress should get to the root of the problem by trying to eliminate the 15th Amendment.

norbizness September 16, 2009 at 11:07 am

I’m no IT professional or lexicographer, but I don’t think that the letter sequence n-u-t-z is found in any English word, and therefore I would be fine with any comment containing said sequence to be nuked from space.

El Pinche September 16, 2009 at 11:08 am

GOPACORNRRCmte or formally known as the “Anti-AfroNegraCommittee”

Katydid September 16, 2009 at 11:12 am

[re=412006]the problem child[/re]: What again? You mean still.

Elm Hugger September 16, 2009 at 11:12 am

[re=412003]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: I liked the A team, George P was my hero growing up, one of the reasons I like cigars. Love to use the phrase “I love it when a plan comes together”. Maybe if I call them they will end the ACORN committee. THAT would be cool, them driving away in that really cool van…..

Darkness September 16, 2009 at 11:12 am

So, we’ll be getting that Iraq/Xe/Blackwater rapid response team any second now right? Find out where the missing 12 billion in cash went? No? Huh. Imagine that.

I’ll believe the republicans are serious when they cease to be partisan. Ah ha ha ahhah! I slay me.

Norbert September 16, 2009 at 11:17 am

GOPACORNRRCmte: Bustin’ A Nut So Fast You’ll Wish It Took Longer

Jim Demintia September 16, 2009 at 11:19 am

Well, why not? It’ll give those three something to expend their insanity on.

shadowMark September 16, 2009 at 11:21 am

[re=412024]norbizness[/re]: I don’t think that the letter sequence n-u-t-z is found in any English word — It pains me to post this here at a Taylor Swift worship site, but the word lexicographer gives me a raging woody so instead of rogue tweeting by myself, here’s the USA word with n-u-t-z in it:

Nutzilla:

A God among men, this title describes one who has achieved the pinnacle of getting a nut. In order to be deemed a nutzilla, one must nut, or ejaculate, 12 times in a 24 hour period. The presence of a nut witness is not required, but desirable.

Bro, I don’t care if he fucks my sis, he is a Nutzilla.

dijetlo September 16, 2009 at 11:22 am

Poor people registering to vote?
Minorities getting representation via an accurate census?
Good Lord! No wonder the F team went apeshite! Fortunately Michelle Bachmann has a super-power to put an end to these dastardly ACORNS and their Democratic principle. She can fry your mind wit da crazy, it’s those semi-buggy eyes and that sweaty/frothy/sticky/gooey terror she generates like BO.
Michelle Bachman is the Wonder Women of the Wingtards.

Snarkalicious September 16, 2009 at 11:22 am

[re=412013]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Alan Keyes with Gary Coleman strapped to his back all Thunderdome style. Wait…shit. Keyes is the bigger one, right?

Monsieur Grumpe September 16, 2009 at 11:23 am

Probably less A-Team and more Dukes of Hazard meets Gilligan’s Island without Ginger and Mary Ann.

Gorillionaire September 16, 2009 at 11:24 am

I would like to meet a fancy squirrel.

gurukalehuru September 16, 2009 at 11:27 am

OT, but isn’t Stephen Frey the writer that Oprah outed for being a pathetic, lying fraud after sticking up for him for awhile until it became really, publicly obvious that he was a pathetic, lying fraud? Or was that some other guy? Anyway, it apparently didn’t end his literary career. If it’s the same guy.

Guppy06 September 16, 2009 at 11:27 am

[re=412024]norbizness[/re]: http://www.trucknutz.com/

You must be new here.

norbizness September 16, 2009 at 11:28 am

[re=412039]shadowMark[/re]: An acceptable collateral loss.

shadowMark September 16, 2009 at 11:30 am

[re=412045]Gorillionaire[/re]:

Michele Bachmann comes
on little fancy squirrel feet.

She sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

hobospacejunkie September 16, 2009 at 11:32 am

Tell me how Issa gets a long A sound from the sequence I-s-s-a. That’s just wrong.

martinette September 16, 2009 at 11:33 am

From little ACORNS grow mighty oafs.

MysteriousHoatzin September 16, 2009 at 11:36 am

Why aren’t republicans feet held to the fire for these blatant anti-democratic tactics?

Mustang September 16, 2009 at 11:37 am

From the minutes of the GOP ACORN Rapid Response Committee meeting – “Let us get on with the important business of making sure white people are in charge. Oh wait, we were already doing that. Carry on.”

Way Cool Larry September 16, 2009 at 11:37 am

[re=412022]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: really. The conspiracy theorist in me has to wonder if ACORN was set-up somehow. How could those ACORN women be so incredibly dumb?

Guppy06 September 16, 2009 at 11:39 am

[re=412058]Way Cool Larry[/re]: Have you stepped outside and mingled with your fellow citizens lately? Have you looked at the kind of people they vote for? And you’re still surprised?

Vulpes82 September 16, 2009 at 11:45 am

[re=412058]Way Cool Larry[/re]: We are a nation of Dumb. Just because the teabaggers are our current leading exponents of it in this country doesn’t mean they’re the only ones who possess it.

BTW, if it had just been helping a prostitute do her taxes, I really wouldn’t care. I mean, we have a deficit, after all. Hos gotta pay the IRS, too, you know! It was the endorsing of her pimp and then apparent approval of (and advice on) a brothel full of underage Guatamalan sex slaves part that was reprehensible.

Gallowglass September 16, 2009 at 11:47 am

People still care about ACORN? Jesus, don’t they have church or tentacle porn or anything else to do?

the problem child September 16, 2009 at 11:52 am

[re=412047]gurukalehuru[/re]: Nope, Stephen Fry (no e) is the guy who writes very hilarious novels, like “The Hippopotamus”, was half of comedy duo Fry and Laurie, and hosts a British quiz show called “QI” which is also very funny. He should, in fact, be the patron saint of Wonkette.

bugslinger September 16, 2009 at 11:53 am

So let me get this straight. If you work for ACORN and advise someone on how to avoid taxes and game government programs, we send you to jail. But if you’re a banker or a lobbyist and advise someone on how to avoid taxes and game government programs, we give you a check and McMansion.

Seems to me that ACORN’s only crime is they incorporated as a non-profit :P

Egregious September 16, 2009 at 11:54 am

True story. Fresh out of school and not making much $$$, I signed up for a housing program sponsored by Acorn. I attended classes on responsible homeownership and how to shop for a quality mortgages. In return, Bank of America gave me a break on the interest rate. It helped land my first condo in DC. It really helped me.

Brothels, Pimpin’, Muslims, brainwashing, and libertard orgies were not mentioned. Maybe I missed out on the real Acorn meetings.

give us a bob September 16, 2009 at 11:54 am

[re=412014]rachelv[/re]: I’m actually pretty sure they mean “OLIGARHY.”

Way Cool Larry September 16, 2009 at 11:56 am

[re=412054]hobospacejunkie[/re]: indeed– non-phonetic names are one of my pet peeves

Neilist September 16, 2009 at 11:57 am

Does the “GOP ACORN Rapid Response Team” have a nickname yet?

Say . . .

WOLVERINESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

(Sorry for the carry-over. I’m still reeling from the news about the re-make.)

(Oh, BWT: The re-make of “The Day The Earth Stood Still” sucked completely too.

Just saying.)

widget09 September 16, 2009 at 11:58 am

The Democrats need to come up with a counter committe ANTIGOPACORNDDCmte, wow it’s kind of like alphabet soup. Members: Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton & Jimmy Carter, the brain power would be 10 times what GOPACORNRRCmte is. It would be kind of a “dream team”.

the problem child September 16, 2009 at 11:59 am

[re=412065]the problem child[/re]: Or do you mean this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Frey Sounds dull as dirt and not at all Oprah-love inducing.

Way Cool Larry September 16, 2009 at 12:00 pm

“It was the endorsing of her pimp and then apparent approval of (and advice on) a brothel full of underage Guatamalan sex slaves part that was reprehensible.”

Exactly my point. It was so over the top, it doesn’t make sense that someone, even a dumb person, would fall for their plan. Personally, while it is a convenient excuse, I think dumb is too easy of an explanation.

converse September 16, 2009 at 12:03 pm

They probably want to cut federal funds for any defense contractors that hire “escorts” for their “executive receptions”, disallow federal mortgages for any realtors that steer African-American families to certain neighborhoods, and pull the licenses of CPAs who help millionaires cheat on their income tax returns.

No? They only want to go after poor people, you say? Chickenshits.

finallyhappy September 16, 2009 at 12:07 pm

[re=412031]Elm Hugger[/re]: I heard Dirk Benedict speak recently- f-king teabagger. He told us the country has gone downhill in the past 9 months and we are going to be socialist in no time. I meant to tell him that actors-or former actors- should stick to what they know- bad acting.

Guppy06 September 16, 2009 at 12:12 pm

[re=412086]finallyhappy[/re]: He’s still butthurt over the fact that the new Starbuck was a woman. The whole new series was all about emasculation, donchaknow.

samsuncle September 16, 2009 at 12:19 pm

So has Obama selected a communist tsar to head up this new committee?

imissopus September 16, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Finally, our long national nightmare of dumb people advising pimps how to fill out tax returns and claim their underage illegal immigrant hookers as dependents is over!

Tundra Grifter September 16, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Mighty jokes, from little ACORNs grow…

Tundra Grifter September 16, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Personally, I think “One-L” Michele should investigate the ACORN worker seen on video doing her Stephen Colbert homage. The clever lady who told the stringers she’d shot her husband.

The San Barnardino PD investigated and reported that all the lady’s ex-husbands they could locate “appear” to be alive and well.

That should keep One-L out of trouble for quite some time to come…

ladymacbeth September 16, 2009 at 1:09 pm

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

glamourdammerung September 16, 2009 at 1:10 pm

It is kind of a shame Issa did not get blown up a few years back, since he is too stupid to realise how feeding the crazies leads them to do things like plant bombs in members of congress’ offices.

Hooray For Anything September 16, 2009 at 1:22 pm

Isn’t the big conspiracy in the new Dan Brown book about how all these secret symbols in DC reveal the fact that ACORN controls the world?

Suds McKenzie September 16, 2009 at 1:35 pm

Bachmann Rabid Responce Overdrive.

davesnothere September 16, 2009 at 2:42 pm

Even a blind squirrel turns up an occasional trucknutz.

BobTheBuilder September 16, 2009 at 3:46 pm

Time for TruckNutz to go Crocs and expand its brand:
BikeNutz.
CarNutz.
ShoppingcartNutz.
UnderwearNutz.
LuggageNutz.
Babies-r-Nutz.
iPodNutz. (aka the iPod Touch)

Barrett808 September 16, 2009 at 3:52 pm

What is the deal with these weird pimp/whore videos? My sister’s conservative sister is going ape over this latest ACORN thing, and I don’t see anything that merits even the slightest concern…

lochnessmonster September 16, 2009 at 5:54 pm

Always thought the GOPers were a little squirrley

LoweredPeninsula September 17, 2009 at 1:52 am

GOPACORNRRCmte: Formerly known as the National Association for the Advancement of Real American People (NAAARAP)

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