Posted on 01/30/2025 5:34:37 AM PST by MtnClimber
Democrats in Congress like Representatives Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., are criticizing President Donald Trump’s firing of 17 inspectors general, including in the departments of State, Transportation, Labor, Interior, Energy, and Commerce, claiming that doing so “without due cause is antithetical to good government.”
There is a very strong argument to be made that those inspectors general failed to do their jobs during the past four years. Their failures provide Trump with all of the “due cause” he needs.
Just two examples suffice: their failure to investigate the misbehavior of their departments in attempting to interfere in the 2022 and 2024 federal elections and in using government resources to violate the First Amendment rights of American citizens and censor their opinions and social media accounts.
Hard to think of anything more “antithetical to good government” than such outrageous conduct. Plus, one would think that the president realizes that if partisans like Raskin and Waters are criticizing him, he must be doing the right thing.
The job of a federal inspector general is straightforward. Under applicable federal law, they are tasked with conducting investigations to root out “fraud and abuse” in the “programs and operations” of their agencies. That obviously includes investigating malfeasance and misbehavior by agency personnel that violates federal law, wastes taxpayer funds, misuses congressional appropriations, and goes beyond the narrowly defined statutory authority of the agency.
In 2021, Joe Biden issued an executive order directing all federal agencies–including every one of the agencies whose inspectors general were fired–to get involved in state election administration. The agencies had to implement “strategic” plans to use agency personnel and resources to persuade and “assist” members of the public who interacted with those agencies to register and vote in federal elections. That included providing access to “vote-by-mail ballot applications,” identification documents, and multilingual voting materials.
Biden even told the agencies to solicit third-party organizations to “provide voter registration services on agency premises,” virtually guaranteeing that liberal, left-wing allies who wanted to keep Biden and his party in office would have access to every member of the public interacting with the federal government in official settings.
Think about that for a moment. What possible business is it of the Energy or Commerce or Transportation Departments to play a role–any role–in our elections? Zero. Zip. Zilch....SNIP
If President Trump did the same thing Biden did, what would happen?
The only necessary cause is being. Nothing else really matters.
She was. Now she isn’t
If the Energy Department is not securing America’s energy, that’s a cause for firing.
“What possible business is it of the Energy or Commerce or Transportation Departments to play a role–any role–in our elections? Zero. Zip. Zilch....SNIP”
OTOH, maybe they are part of the global warming hoax and paid handsomely (bribed) to look the other way. Among many other things, countless actually...
“If President Trump did the same thing Biden did, what would happen?“
…always the same question. Always a good question.
That applies to just the one. The correct statement is:
Hey ‘RATS, you lost, so have a steaming hot cup of STFU!
Whenever Asskissin and Maxmouth criticize some action you know that action is to help the average citizens and not members of Congre$$.
“Democrats in Congress like Representatives Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., are criticizing President Donald Trump...”
That’s one hell of an opening. Whew!
This is what Unions do. The federal Government is not a private Union.
I think President Trump has pretty solid case to Criminally Charge every one of them with violating the “Dishonest Services Act” and put them in PRISON.
He ‘do cause’ he can....................
I remember when Obama accused an IG named Gerald Walpin of being senile and incompetent, and fired him because the IG had followed the doings of a well known point guard, Kevin Johnson (a/k/a “KJ”) or other. KJ, who was the first black mayor of Sacramento, had apparently diverted something like 800,000 dollars from a charitable organization to his own use.
Trump is just trying to plug the leaks to the extreme far-left “media” and shut down all the RAT anti-Trump coffee table trash books heading to the publishers.
Obama fired half the executive branch and replaced them all with communists. Trump is just fixing that.
I’m just loving the squirming of these LIB/DIM/Lefty maggots as the sunlight shines upon them. Just maybe about 208 more weeks of ever-increasing sunlight will dry out these pathetic parasites.
More popcorn!
BTTT
I am familiar with one IG that failed to diligently pursue theft of public funds by Democrats in large cities.
That was almost certainly the case throughout the entire “administration” aka the Biden Criminal Enterprise.
DJT should have issued the required 30-day notice. But, he did not, so whingers gonna whing.
All non-Congress and non-SCOTUS are in Executive Branch — at the mercy of chief exec.
Grow up.
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