ACORN--Not Rogues but a Rogue Operation

UPDATE: ACORN suspends operations***Even Jon Stewart is incredulous. (video below) It's not just a few bad actors, it never was, but Dems like Sen. Dick Durbin are in denial. WSJ editorial. Deny ACORN all federal funds--the fraud and abuse is systemic, and ACORN is very cozy with SEIU, especially in our President Barack Obama's Chicago:

ACORN controls or significantly dominates several Big Labor unions and organizations. ACORN created and controls SEIU 100 (Gulf Region) and SEIU 880 (a recently expanded SEIU mega-local that covers Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, and Kansas).

ACORN founder S. Wade Rathke referred to mega-union SEIU 880 as “one of the pillars of the ACORN Family.”

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern hand picked ACORN’s Rathke to direct SEIU’s nationwide organizing projects.

Why? The guy who covered up his brother's embezzlement?

Through a web of entities, our taxpayer dollars are funding who knows what fraud and corruption. And ACORN is poised to receive billions through the stimulus package. Congress needs to cut off the spigot and the Justice Dept. needs to investigate this under RICO.

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P.S. Obama, humble servant of Big Labor.

More: Steven Malanga, ACORN's a creature of the Community Reinvestment Act:

In one particularly lucrative deal, 14 major banks eager to put CRA protests behind them in 1993 signed an agreement to have Acorn administer a $55 million, 11-city lending program. It was precisely such agreements that helped turn Acorn from a network of small local groups into a national player. And Acorn hasn't been alone. A U.S. senate subcommittee once estimated that CRA-related deals between banks and community groups have pumped nearly $10 billion into the nonprofit sector.

And we're all paying for it now with the home price bubble and then bust. But what does the Dem Congress want to do?

Given the economic fallout from the long efforts by advocacy groups to water down mortgage lending standards, as well as the controversy surrounding Acorn's mortgage counseling methods, you would imagine that politicians in Washington would be eager to narrow the scope of the CRA and reduce the leverage that community groups wield under it. But to the contrary, Washington is actually looking to expand the CRA once again

Makes you want to tear your hair out. ENOUGH!!! THAT IS ONE REASON WHY WE HAD A MASSIVE TEA PARTY IN DC ON SATURDAY!!!!! STOP funding ACORN, throw them out or we will throw YOU out!!!!!

More: Chicago News Bench, Alderman Joe Moore, ACORN and SEIU.

More: Marathon Pundit on ACORN and flaming leftie Rep. Jan Schakowsky.