The Daily Broadside - 10/9

ACORN Throws Out Republican Voter Registrations

ACORN wants people to register to vote – as long as they’re Democrats. Republican registrations go into the trash.

Here is a first-hand account of how it happens. In February 2008, Fathiyyah Muhammad of Jacksonville, Florida, heard that ACORN was paying people three dollars for each voter they could register. ACORN paid her three dollars for each voter she registered, but Fatiyyah Muhammad says that the group threw out her votes and fired her when she brought them registrations of Republican voters.

Baucus Bill Gets CBO Nod, Committee Vote Set for Next Week; Democrats Working to Resolve Issue of Public Option and New Taxes

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said today the Finance Committee will vote on Baucus' bill next Tuesday. If the bill passes, it would need to be interwoven with the bill passed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and that means legislation will likely not be on the Senate floor until the week after next, at the earliest.

Ethics committee expands Rangel investigation

Republicans have forced House votes three times, the latest this week, on removing Rangel from his tax-writing position. While Democrats easily defeated each attempt, the issue has allowed Republicans to ridicule Pelosi's refrain that Democrats would drain the swamp of ethical misconduct that previously plagued Republicans.

Michelle Malkin: Art, imitation, and the Obamas

Today, a Free Republic poster notices another of the Obamas’ curious art choices: “Watusi (Hard Edge),” by Alma Thomas, who is described by the NYTimes as “a longtime Washington resident who is an African-American painter.”

Alma Thomas’s “Watusi” (1963) looks to be an almost exact reproduction of a 1953 piece by Henri Matisse titled “L’Escargot: