Hot on the tail of an Obama Administration scandal supposedly caused by a lack of scrutiny, Obama admitted that he had not been following the unraveling ACORN controversy “that closely.” When ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pressed Obama on Saturday if he agreed with the Senate and the House voting to strip ACORN of its federal funds, the President replied:
“Frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.”
Wait a sec. ACORN has gotten approximately $50 million from the federal government since the mid-nineties, and was eligible to get billions from the stimulus. Isn’t this the Obama that promised us “I want to go through the federal budget line by line, page by page” back in the debates?