The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to defund ACORN. Despite the 345 to 75 tally, Massachusetts's delegation voted 8 to 1 (with Barney Frank, a vocal antagonist of those seeking to defund ACORN, not voting) against the defunding legislation. After seeing videos of numerous ACORN employees seeming to display a willingness to aid and abet a child prostitution scheme, the debate should be about whether the government should shut down ACORN, not about whether it should fund it. Not to fret, Massachusetts Democrats. There will be no repercussions for votes in defense of subsidizing illegality--at least for the Massachusetts Democrats. Elsewhere, Democrats, as always, will pay a price for the irresponsibility of representatives safely ensconsed in districts that far from represent America.

Yeah, and let's shut down the Catholic Church also, for aiding and abetting child molestation. That way we don't have to judge individuals as individuals and we can revert to tribalism and view everyone else in collectivist terms.

The tribes will be like sports teams. We can engage in tribal warfare as a sport. Sports are fun!

So most of these guys don’t see the wrong-headedness in our government funding a criminal organization? Never mind the likely illegality of having it around in the first place?

In terms of being held hostage in Massachusetts, I guess my view of how these parties get elected for life is like the same thing as Pauline Kael's lament about Nixon winning the White House and saying, "Nobody I know voted for him." Nobody I know vote for the buffoons who make up our crazy Congressional Delegation.

But there they are and it’s clear that a majority in this state socially, politically and philosophically agree with what the way left loons in that body are selling.

Either way, it’s an embarrassment to be a citizen of the Bay State and the results of national policy decisions being handled by people who couldn’t run a Popsicle stand make us a U.S. wide laughingstock.