Posted on 06/18/2009 4:15:48 PM PDT by lancer256
The more we learn about the White House's summary firing of AmeriCorps' inspector general, Gerald Walpin, the more it smells of lawlessness, cronyism and a flagrant disregard for transparency and government accountability.
Remember President Barack Obama's commitment to oversee the expenditure of taxpayer funds to avoid waste and inefficiency -- to the point that he deputized Vice President "Mean" Joe Biden as the executive enforcer?
That was then. This is now. As has proved customary with this administration, the walk has not matched the talk. Biden's casual admissions that the administration "guessed wrong" and that money has been wasted don't begin to describe the fiscal recklessness and corruption that define this White House.
Walpin -- in investigating the misuse of AmeriCorps funds by St. HOPE charity, which is under the direction of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a strong Obama supporter -- discovered that St. HOPE had failed to use the federal monies for the purposes specified in the grant and improperly had used AmeriCorps personnel to drive Johnson to personal appointments, run other errands for him and wash his car. On Walpin's recommendation, an official at the Corporation for National and Community Service, the organization that runs AmeriCorps, ordered Johnson's suspension.
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Right on target editorial.
Yet another reason not to trust 0 with our health care money or our health care decisions.... not to mention the TRILLIONS he’s already stolen.
See realtytrac for foreclosure information on California.
14421 bank owned homes in Sacramento.
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Unemployment rate for Sacramento County, 4/2009: 10.8%
Seems to me that since there is a federal law which prohibits the firing of an IG (co-authored by Obama himself) except under certain circumstances, a federal judge could overturn it.
This guy (BHO) is worse than Clinton. It took them more than a few months to get up to speed with the Travelgate scandal, Vince Foster, death of Hillary’s former RE partner, etc.
Seems to me that since there is a federal law which prohibits the firing of an IG (co-authored by Obama himself) except under certain circumstances, a federal judge could overturn it.
Yeah it’s a scandal.
The bad guys will get away with it.
And the media will call the bad guys “heroes”...:(
The title says it all.
Why not monitor the money Obama handles, see which of the cronies the Zero protects, pass all the evidence to the DOJ and arrest them all while the Zero is arrested (including his puppeteer Rockefeller).
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