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Obama’s Americorps scandal — and the First Lady’s meddling
Michelle Malkin ^ | 6-12-09 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 06/12/2009 8:57:23 AM PDT by icwhatudo

President Obama is hoping you won’t notice his abrupt change of inspectors general over at Americorps, the government-run, taxpayer-subsidized “community service” boondoggle (which Republicans helped expand as part of the $6 billion GIVE/SERVE Act in March despite its wasteful track record. Thanks, Republicans).

With intervention from Michelle Obama, the Americorps inspector general was given the boot and replaced — for doing his job too well, it seems, and uncovering squandering of funds by favored contributors, educational institutions, and left-wing groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: agenda; americorps; bho44; democrats; obama
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

It’s an entirely different mindset.

It is the ultimate “welfare mindset” - that’s what these people are from the richest to the poorest all have a welfare mindset. Give me what I think I deserve.


21 posted on 06/12/2009 9:39:16 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: icwhatudo

OMG the abuse by this administration is staggering... Investigate NOW... Special counsel NOW....

How long are the American people going to put up with this abuse?


22 posted on 06/12/2009 9:39:24 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Hey Obama how many Freedoms have you taken away from Americans today?)
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To: icwhatudo

Welcome to: Chicago on the Potomac!!!


23 posted on 06/12/2009 9:43:20 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a Daffy Duck)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Turn on Robin Meade and CNN Headline News some morning. Watch it as long as you can stand. That’s the world view in America.


24 posted on 06/12/2009 9:45:39 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: icwhatudo

does anyone think its going to matter?


25 posted on 06/12/2009 9:45:57 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Bitsy

With all due respect, the obamabots do KNOW just how much corruption there is because THEY are the BENEFICIARIES of said corruption. It’s their reparations.


26 posted on 06/12/2009 9:46:06 AM PDT by Josa
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To: icwhatudo
We ain't seen nuthin' yet...

Cover it up with an even bigger and more corrupt
Civilian National Security Force
(only another trillion here, trillion there)

27 posted on 06/12/2009 9:47:52 AM PDT by Aroostook25
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To: MeekOneGOP; TigersEye; floriduh voter

Oh boy! Rush just quoted Byron York on this. [Great week on Rush.]


28 posted on 06/12/2009 9:51:11 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
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To: icwhatudo

MO now has the role of the Commander in Chief of community organizers now fully funded by us. Keep sending these crooks your tax dollars. Work hard, make more, they are going to needs lots of our money for this take over.


29 posted on 06/12/2009 9:51:38 AM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Bitsy

The two mindsets are exactly 180 degrees out of phase.

One side decries corruption as a matter of morality, public trust, the desire to live in a country under the rule of law, all those kinds of things.

The other side: “Gimme mine. It’s owed me.” Their highest priority is solely to fulfill that impulse, regardless of any laws or any morality.

Stark contrast.


30 posted on 06/12/2009 9:56:31 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
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To: icwhatudo

The entire situation stinks of a much bigger agenda. Booting the IG is likely part of an end around attempt to create Obama’s Civilian National Security Force (brown shirts) by hidden executive decrees instead of open congressional process of law.


31 posted on 06/12/2009 10:03:57 AM PDT by CountryBumpkin ("We are a nation that has a Government, not the other way around" RWR)
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To: icwhatudo

just like ACORN, where the money pours into an old funeral home in New Orleans and goes out to... FOO? (Friends of Obama)


32 posted on 06/12/2009 10:21:32 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: silverleaf

What was it called, when Winnie put used tires around someone and then lit the tires on fire?
These were enemies of Winnie.
Do you think this was TORTURE??
(They died.)


33 posted on 06/12/2009 10:26:15 AM PDT by noah (noah)
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To: silverleaf

Ah, allow me to correct that: we have Urkel and Bigfoot and a cast of twenty-one —so far— dwarf czars running the country ... and that is absolutely unconstitutional, but the dupes of hope and change are too stupid tyo know that and will be herded right along by the criminal enterprise democrap party.


34 posted on 06/12/2009 10:27:51 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Piranha; LucyT; STARWISE; maggief

ACORN and AMERICORPS , See piranha post 14.

Does anyone have an acorn file? Or do you know someone who IS keeping track of the nut dots?


35 posted on 06/12/2009 10:34:47 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: Juan Medén

“Nothing about this woman is impressive & after 6 years, she’s more pathetic than ever before.”

Busy waiting for someone else to start things and then they’ll spend their time avoiding the fray for fear of dirtying their delicate hands.

While backstabbing the person trying to get things going, lest the minorities get upset.


36 posted on 06/12/2009 10:53:59 AM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: Bitsy

You know that it’s not that they can’t fathom the waste and corruption,

it’s that they don’t mind it.


37 posted on 06/12/2009 10:54:57 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Cheerio

Not just hypocrisy, but spite at the worst. To them, this is about going after whites, especially wealthy whites who ‘oppressed’ them all these years.

Zero is simply doing what an actor or actress would do if they held the reins. This is simply a huge drama with himself as the man who has to ‘shake things up.’


38 posted on 06/12/2009 10:56:22 AM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: DTogo

Contact your state legislators and tell them to get off the pot and pass sovereignty legislation.

That’s where the “Revolution” starts.

Unless you just wanna be a “bunch of rogue anti-government malcontents” that can be legimately “put down”.

Don’t give the leftists that legitimacy. Make them use force first, against a state government.


39 posted on 06/12/2009 10:57:00 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: noah

Necklacing.


40 posted on 06/12/2009 10:58:38 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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