The Law of Unintended Consequnces

While I thought the crazy "sting" operation on ACORN was stupid, and it turns out that the videos may be even more misleading than originally reported (hell, even Fox news carried an article that one of the ACORN people called the police about the potential crimes discussed), it may just be that in the rush to show how disapproving they are of ACORN, Congress may have done some good.

If this is true, and the bill as written actually applies to most military contractors, it would be deeply amusing to me.

From the article:
[The bill as written] applies to "any organization" that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.

And here is a list of government contractors with a history of misconduct.

(Aside from all this, it seems the bill may be unconstitutional as a bill of attainder anyway.)