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June 17, 2009
All the President's Men, The Sequel
right under the classifieds.
The difference is, in this version, the media is the Charles Colson-esque attack dog protecting the president. Other than that, this smells a lot like abuse of power.
Some strange and potentially suspicious events tonight concerning the Obama White House and the AmeriCorps program. I've been told that on Wednesday night the AmeriCorps inspector general, Gerald Walpin, received a call from the White House counsel's office telling him that he had one hour to either resign or be fired. The White House did not cite a reason. "The answer that was given was that it's just time to move on," one Senate source told me tonight. "The president would like to have someone else in that position."Read Bryon York's bottom line in the updates. This is troubling, and infuriating, stuff. As Ed Morrissey points out, this is starting to become a pattern for the White House. More evidence that President Obama is everything the left accused George W. Bush of being, but wasn't.Inspectors General are part of every federal department. They are given the responsibility of independently investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and corruption in the government, without fear of interference by political appointees or the White House. Last year Congress passed the Inspectors General Reform Act, which added new protections for IGs, including a measure requiring the president to give Congress 30 days prior notice before dismissing an IG. The president must also give Congress an explanation of why the action is needed. Then-Sen. Barack Obama was one of the co-sponsors of the Act.
Now, there is the hurried attempt to dismiss Walpin, without the required notice or cause.
In a particularly shameless bit of political smearing, the Obama administration has now accused Walpin of being senile. Glenn Beck disproves that. I wonder when our national media will get around to noticing Obama's disregard for the law and his attempted defamation of a man he wants to fire.
Posted by slublog at June 17, 2009 09:19 PM
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"I wonder when our national media will get around to noticing Obama's disregard for the law and his attempted defamation of a man he wants to fire."
try again, if there must be another great depression, it won't be because of the last 20 years.
Posted by: coldmexican at June 21, 2009 10:32 PM