During the run up to last year's Presidential election, conservatives rejoiced that some film maker named James O'Keefe managed to turn a community organizing group that was virtually unknown prior to the 2008 election cycle into a lightning rod for the budding tea party movement. O'Keefe walked into an ACORN office and managed to convince some of the staff that he was a prospective pimp and solicited advice in setting up a brothel. Stupid? Yes. But probably funnier than criminal.
Anyway, O'Keefe became a hero and 31 house representatives loved this conservative Michael Moore so much that they wanted the United States Congress to declare a proclamation praising him for "saving taxpayers millions of dollars" (that are now being paid to more expensive organizations) when he helped make ACORN a pariah to any elected official. Of those 31 co-sponsors were, you might want to sit down because this is going to utterly not shock you -- Oklahoma representatives Tom Cole and Mary Fallin.