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Audacity of Truth
Another IG firing, and the leashing of another
Ed Morrissey does an excellent job of detailing yet another instance of the Obama administration firing an IG, and another case, leashing an IG. In short:
The firing of Gerald Walpin as Inspector General was not an isolated incident, as the Chicago Tribune reports today. Two more IGs have been dismissed in the past two weeks, and Senator Charles Grassley has started demanding answers. The sudden push to rid the government of independent watchdogs appears to coincide with Barack Obama’s plans to use government spending to get control over more aspects of American life, such as with stimulus spending, the financial sector, and volunteer organizations
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We are seeing a pattern, no longer just a single data point. IGs work independently to protect taxpayers from corruption and abuse from its own government agencies. A coordinated attack on IGs certainly suggests hostility to that mission, which isn’t the Hope and Change Obama promised on the campaign trail.
Yep.
These are serious issues – and, in my view, are pretty obvious cases of abuses of power not even six months into Obama’s time in office, and I’m happy to see a major newspaper like the ChiTrib covering it. Then again, the Chicago media were about the only media outlets last year that devoted any space whatseover to critical examinations of Obama’s past and policies. Dare we hope that the other mainstream media news outlets will give this scandal the coverage and scrutiny that it deserves?
Stay tuned.
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Well Thank God for Chuck Grassley. This is serious. If a Rep President had done this, there would be a zillion congressional inquiries. At this very moment Dodd and his buddies would be having mock impeachment trials in the basement of the Capital building, if this were a Republican. I will even have to give props to Clair McCaskel for her blocking of Barack’s actions. – Lorica
Soetoro is a loser on so many levels I don’t want to dignify him with a critique of his obvious failures as a man and a President of the United States.
Suffice it to say, if you have seen the list of questions Senator Grassley has raised, a set of questions that Soetoro’s chief legal counsel on ethics in government REFUSED to answer- forcing Senator Grassley to pose these questions IN WRITING to the Boy President himself— then you would know for certain that the Hope and Change White House is in disarray.
One thread pulled aggressively on one pecadillo issue (like letting your Negro Buddies hire chauffers with public money) will bring down a presidency.
The cover-up is well underway. The POTUS has overreached and underdelivered on his promises not 200 days into his term.
The demise will be bittersweet: glad to see this miscreant thrown out of office and remorsed to see the damage done both foreign and domestic.
The real prize: the end of the Dhimmicratic Party. No I take that back: the real prize will be orange jump suits for all the elected officials nationwide that turned a blind eye to Soetoro’s lack of eligibility to be POTUS. Voter fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to defraud the Treasury, etc etc etc.
Hoist all of them for treason I say. And let it be a lesson to future generations of “community organizers” that there is a price to be paid for lack of accountability to the people. All of the people all of the time.
Bear1909 out.
The libs are decrying this as a conservative “talking point” and attributing any credible investigative reporting as such…get ready for a big blowout over this. I hope Grassley will continue to pursue this even as the dems in congress try to spin their way out of this first inkling of corruption.
If we look at this from a strategy standpoint, we may get a glimpse of how Obama will deal with anyone who purports the stench of corruption let alone hard facts….you will be gone and fast.
I would say the firing of the IG is somewhat suspicious on the grounds presented and borders on age discrimination… saying some one is “a bit confused” and relating that to dementia or some other medical condition that is not documented or investigated certainly violates employment law. If this happened in the private sector there would have to be medical documentation as well as documentation by the employer that all avenues were pursued before firing or replacing personnel.
Bring on full blown investigations and see what happens! You go Grassley!
Gotta love the reason they gave for dismissing Walpin. He acted “bizarrely.”
Bizarrely = actually believing he should be trying to do his job and find corruption and abuse when it concerns a Democrat or Obama crony, and then not realizing he should resign rather than hold his ground.
Most ethical government evah! More Change You Can Believe In, yeah, he’s brought change to Washington, he’s made it worse, something I never believed possible.
It’s ironic that one of the few papers to seriously look at Obama the candidate and Obama the President is his hometown journal.
Or maybe it’s not ironic; maybe they know him best.
This appears to be a devious misuse of power and just another day in the life of Obama and his cronies.We really can’t depend on the media other– than Fox news– to look into this. I have called the White House and The Capitol. I spoke with aides and encouraged my senators to do an investigation into these IG firings.I also called Sen. Grassley and encouraged him in finding out what’s going on there.
Capitol: 1-202-224-3121/ 1-202-225-3121
White House: 1-202-456-1111/1-202-456-1414
Well, isn’t it interesting that, from a lib perspective, it all depends on who’s the pit bull and who’s the victim. When something traditional and not nearly as obnoxious as this happened with W, he was the pit bull. Now, His Hollowness does what can only be viewed as his prerogative but under strange circumstances and the fired guy is the pit bull.
Wonder why? And it’s just one more shining example of liberal hypocrisy.
Sev, you need to look at it from Obama’s perspective. For Chicago Democrats, rooting out corruption and abuse is bizarre behavior.
“Normal” behavior would be demanding a kickback from Johnson for not reporting it.