One can't say that President Barack Obama lacks a sense of humor. At Monday's annual Christmas party, White House staff served "acorn" cookies to Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Fox News reports that, "lawmaker sees 'stark symbolism; in White House's Christmas cookies shaped like nuts sharing the name of a controversial community group." 

Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa) was impressed by the chocolate cookies shaped like an acorn. He said in an email that, "I didn't expect to see such stark symbolism."

President Obama joined together with ACORN in the mid 1990s. Yet, presently, ACORN faces a string of allegations related to voter fraud in the 2008 presidential election has been plagued by scandal due to an undercover expose that shows ACORN employees offering tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute.

The comedic irony of the White House dishing out acorn-shaped chocolate cookies appeared, a little, well, "nuty," to Rep. King. The Iowa Republican has been one of the loudest voices calling for Congress to investigate ACORN.

According to Fox, "King pocketed several of the acorn cookies at the White House soiree and even stowed a few at his home in his freezer. King even delivered a real acorn to House Judiciary Committte John Conyers, D.-Mich., in an effort to launch a dialogue about the organization's legal woes."

Rep. king said, "Bill Clinton redefined a two and three-letter word. He made reference to Mr. Clinton's denial of the Lewinsky affair. King added, "but from the man who wrote 'The Audacity of Hope,' we were served the very redefinition of of the word 'audacity.'"

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