House Minority Leader John Boehner on ACORN

I never thought I would see the day I have more respect for the Republicans. I always thought the Democrats were the “people’s party”. As I watched the cheating and lies put forth by Obama and the DNC in and after the primaries, I realized they no longer had my respect.

Today I have a deeper and more abiding respect for House Minority Leader John Boehner. He truly should be given an award or something for calling a halt to all monies or funding for ACORN. He took it a step further asking that all federal candidates back away from anything that would make them appear to support ACORN in any way.

Here is more on that from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

Congressional Republicans have finally demanded an end to federal funding for ACORN after more than a dozen states have opened investigations into fraud in their voter-registration efforts. House Minority Leader John Boehner has not only called to end that funding for ACORN but also for all federal candidates to stop contracting with ACORN while investigations continue into their business practices.

Boehner’s statement from The Crypt at Politico:

The latest allegations of voter registration fraud by ACORN are further evidence that this group cannot be trusted with another dollar of the taxpayers’ money.

“Election cycle after election cycle, this organization has been at the forefront of breaking the law in order to promote their left-wing agenda. All the while, they have been the recipients of millions of dollars of federal funding through various federal programs and third-party groups. House Republicans took at stand recently to cut off funding to an ACORN slush fund created by their allies in the House Majority, but now more must be done.

“All federal funding to ACORN must be stopped. The ACORN slush fund must be disbanded. Sources of federal funding through the Department of Housing and Urban Development or any other agency must be stopped. Contracting for services between candidates for federal office and ACORN, as Senator Obama has done, must end. Now that the taxpayers own Fannie Mae, any funding from Fannie Mae’s nonprofit foundation to ACORN must stop.

“ACORN spent decades promoting the housing policies that brought America’s economy to the brink, and similarly over the years has committed fraud on our system of elections, making American voters question the fairness and accuracy of the exercise of their most fundamental right under the Constitution. Now it is time to cut off ACORN before it grows even more destructive.”

The federal government was remiss in funding ACORN with any taxpayer funds when they are definitely not non-partisan. The very fact that Obama paid them more than $800,000 this election year may be a conflict of interest at best, but certainly lends credence to his lack of character and judgment.

It is time to end the reign of terror by ACORN and other groups like it. It is past time to cut-off their tax-payer funding as was done in the $700 billion dollar bailout bill. It may be too little too late.

I will echo a strange foreboding chorus I keep reading across the blogs….RICO ACT. The Department of Justice must raid all ACORN offices. It is time that ACORN is dismantled…..and left as nothing but a smashed acorn upon the ground and Obama should join them.