The hemorrhaging over ACORN continues

Last week, the Obama administration cut ACORN off as a contractor, or something, working with the US Census, following complaints from FOX News' Glenn Beck. Yesterday, the Democratically controlled US Senate went one step farther, and overwhelmingly passed a Republican amendment, 83-7, barring HUD from working with ACORN.

So, you're thinking, all that appeasement must have gotten the Republicans to back off, right? Because, after all, all we have to do is give the Republicans what they want and they'll stop being mean to us.

You might be surprised to learn that in fact, the plan didn't work. Rather than take their pound of flesh and walk away, the Republicans - oddly - seemed to have taken the Obama administration's, and the congressional Democrats', cave on ACORN to be a sign of weakness, rather than a bipartisan gesture of our common humanity and purpose, cumbaya my Lord. It's almost as if you threw that troublesome great white shark some bleeding chum in the hopes it would satiate itself and go the heck away, and then the bastard actually wanted more!

How many times do we have to go through this exercise? Post-partisan doesn't work when the other guy is still partisan.