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Obama admin alleges senility in firing of IG
The plot thickens and their rationale for the firing, quite frankly, stinks. If it really was all about Walpin being “confused and disoriented” at a recent meeting, then Obama should have had no issue whatsoever making Congress aware of their concerns -as they were required to do by law, as Democrat Senator and Obama support Claire McCaskill reminded the admin yesterday:
“The White House has failed to follow the proper procedure in notifying Congress as to the removal of the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service,” McCaskill said. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal.”
McCaskill, a key Obama ally, said that the president’s stated reason for the termination, “Loss of confidence’ is not a sufficient reason.”
Ed Morrissey sums up:
Let’s unwind the timeline a bit to test this new allegation. Walpin pressed hard to prosecute Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson for defrauding the government over more than $400,000 in community service grants. Johnson, an Obama supporter, got a deal from the White House that allowed him to manage federal funds again and avoid paying back at least half of the grant money he used illegally. The White House cut Walpin out of those negotiations, and Walpin went to Congress about it.
At that point, the White House called Walpin and told him he had an hour to resign or be fired. Now, if the White House thought that Walpin was somehow incapacitated or disoriented, why bother to make that call at all? In fact, wouldn’t an employer with an ounce of empathy send the employee to a physician for diagnosis first? Even without the empathy, the proper course would have been to address the issue with Congress first instead of making an intimidation attempt to someone the White House now paints as all but senile.
The question is: Will the mainstream media do a full blown investigation into this brewing scandal like they did with the Bush admin over the attorney firings? I won’t hold my breath.
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Seems pretty cut and dried to me.
Anyone who acts to undercut something that Obama wants accomplished and does not expect to be punished for it either hasn’t paid any attention to and doesn’t undertand how Obama functions on a daily basis, or he has paid attention, does understand, but has forgotten.
Ergo, senility.
Not a chance in hell are they going to talk about/investigate this in the mainstream media. Something catastrophic has to happen for many ignorant people in this country to wake up. How truly sad.
Of course they won’t investigate.
Obama claims to be a perfectly honest and moral person, and if he says so then it must be true. Therefore, there is no scandal here. Obama is incapable of acting improperly.
*gag*
Time for the fired IG to get a medical evaluation and expose the lie. Soetoro is, in effect, lying to Congress right now. At least he will need to be brought before the appropriate committee and to state under oath on record why he fired the IG. And if Soetoro cannot be brought in front of a committee, Rahm Emmanuel should be— at the very least.
This one has legs. The lying is what gets a President every time. Lying is not a good idea, at least not the kind where something is made up out of thin air. Lying can be done better ways that do not allow a certain conclusion to be reached by adversaries (such as “he’s lying”) which initiates a shark hunt.
The senility allegation is pure fabrication.
All it takes is one major lie like this one to undo this Presidency, which is filled with some real humdinger lies….LIKE THE FLIPPIN ELIGIBILITY LIE.
Take this Soetoro scoundrel down.
Bear1909
Huh, that’s funny. I’m pretty sure Walpin knows how many states there are in this country, that Austrian isn’t a language, the difference between a door and a window, that there are certain protocols when receiving world leaders and so forth.
Bear1909 has only got it half right. Walpin should have an evaluation, but so should Obama.
The media will not give this story any legs. It will be brushed off just like everything else has been. I’m really getting ticked off about what’s going on!
This is a disgrace, isn’t this a discrimination issue???? Hopefully this will start a few in congress to starting thinking about who Obama really is.
Which of the 57 states was it that he got his medical license certificate, forged in? Kenya believe the things that just keep poppin’ out of what used to be the WH?