Dem Congressman Accuses GOP Rep. Steve King of McCarthyism on House Floor Over Attempts to Stop Funding of ACORN Affiliates…
Funny thing is McCarthy was right all along.
Rep. Steve King compared to McCarthy in ACORN floor spat – The Hill
Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) made the comparison in comments on the House floor after King attempted to exclude dozens of groups related to ACORN from receiving government funds through an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill.
King proposed an amendment that would deny DHS funding to several ACORN affiliates across various states. The measure prompted Dicks and Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) to ask what specific information King had on any of these groups. Near the end of the heated discussion, Dicks said he remembers a “certain senator from Wisconsin” who used similar tactics, a clear reference to McCarthy, although Dicks did not cite McCarthy by name.
“You are asking this House to vote on something, and you haven’t verified it, you don’t know what these groups are all about,” Dicks said. “And it’s a disgrace to even offer this amendment.”
King clearly understood the reference, and responded: “Since the gentleman has raised the issue of the senator from Wisconsin, if he could name any individual who was unjustly charged by the senator from Wisconsin.”
“I’m not going to get into that tonight,” Dicks replied. “I’ll be glad to send you a list, when you verify the media reports, and can talk about these organizations in a meaningful way, instead of just putting a list together and expecting us to vote on this thing. It’s ridiculous.”
Posted by ZIP on Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 10:59 am | 
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To he11 with piddly little investigations and show committees. About time we see some full out HUAC and RICO action on all these crime syndicates.
ACORN is the Democratic party, they are a campaign machine to get out the vote for the Democrats all across the nation.
By the way is Rep. Norm Dicks related to Rep. Anthony Weiner in anyway?
Just wondering.
Boy, if it isn’t a weiner it’s a dicks.
McCarthyism…… Back in the good old days when we hunted down commies and bad guys and purged them…….
‘Congressman Dicks. . .is he a cousin of Congressman Weiner?’
Jesus, I am 58 years Old and I have waited for this news cycle for fifty years! God Bless our American Media!
I have not had this much fun with my clothes on in years!
Dear Democrats,
Please explain why McCarthy was wrong. Please give an example of a non-Communist being falsely accused.
Cool. Does this finally mean R’s will call RATS Communists?
Dicks Wieners and little Pricks make up the liberal cesspool in Congress.
Why is an organization that actively campaigns for the democrats getting any money at all from the feds? 2012 cannot get here soon enough. all these shmucks need to be kicked out of office and get a real job like the rest of us.
McCarthy sure as hell had hollywood pegged.
Damn right McCarthy was right. And he was driven to drink and death by the left.
Karl Marx (Marxism) – “Workers of the world unite!”
Andy Stern (ACORN/SEIU) – “Workers of the world unite!”
McCarthy fully vindicated, a must see:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Blacklis
Deals with high-level Communist infiltration in the US government from 30′s to 50′s. Based on recently available US and USSR intel docs. Last 5-10 mins. treats the so-called “abuses” by McCarthy, and clears him completely.
“M. Stanton Evans talked about his book, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies, published by Crown Forum. The author argued that Senator Joseph McCarthy does not deserve the bad reputation he has been assigned by historians, and that Senator McCarthy was correct in his assessment of the threat posed by Communists in the United States during the so-called “Red Scare” and that his detractors knowingly cover up the extent of this threat. After his presentation he responded to audience members’ questions.”
We Need Senator Joe McCarthy back like yesterday-
McCarthy was totally correct about the communist threat to our form of Goverment. Today we live with the communism lite. If Obama is re elected in 2012 it will only get worse.
I have Stanton Evans book – I recommend it to all. McCarthy was treated incredibly poorly by the Democrats – all for political reasons and they cared not about the USA in the process.
Dicks sucks.
By the way, somebody needs to remind the Democrats that being denied government funds is manifestly different from being banned or jailed.