Rep. Conyers changes mind about investigating ACORN

Odd,Conyers seemed all prepared to take a serious look into how shady ACORN might be just weeks ago. But now, he has decided that we should just move along.

It would have been hard Monday for Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) not to understand how Bill Ayers felt the day the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked. Unforgiving history records that on Sept. 11, 2001, the retired domestic terrorist’s “I don’t regret setting bombs” comment ran in a New York Times profile.

While obviously of a much lesser magnitude, the House Judiciary Committee chairman’s May 4 statement exonerating ACORN couldn’t have come out at a worse time. “Based on my review of the information regarding the complaints against ACORN, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time,” Conyers said in a statement aired that night on CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”

Just hours earlier his fellow Democrats in Nevada, Secretary of State Ross Miller and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto dropped a bombshell. ACORN and two former senior ACORN employees in the state, they announced, had been charged with a total of 39 felony counts related to voter registrations.

Very strange. I thought it was odd that Conyers wanted to look at ACORN’s possible misdeeds to begin with. Given Conyers blatant partisanship for left-leaning groups, I was stunned he would actually suggest an investigation. So, the question is why change his mind now? The evidence looks to be piling up against ACORN, so the time looks right to delve deeper into ACORN’s practices.

So, why? What changed Conyer’s mind? Michelle Malkin is curious about this too.