Posted on 06/22/2009 2:48:23 PM PDT by BP2
The mediaWHORES...will be gunning for him. To the point of destroying him...MARK IT! These freakin people are DEMONIC!!
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We must fight this one tooth and nail - right now, all of us...bring it out in the letters and radio and with your friends...Make Walpin a household name...a badge of shame to zero...
“They can be as in our faces as they want and do it with total impunity.”
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Oh no. Only if we let them. It may seem like that at times. But some shreds of integrity and tradition remain in this nation and we must pick them up, fashion them into a flag, and start to fight NOW.
Hey, neighbor, can I borrow a cup of hope? My cupboard has run dry.
Or, he'll be a passenger on another plane that mysteriously falls out of the skies.
My apologies for not providing fully up to date material. I didn't check the previous link and assumed it at least had an update in notes or something. There is a 30 day before removal provision, signed into law in October 2008. Pub. Law 110-409 - Inspector General Reform Act of 2008
If an Inspector General is removed from office or is transferred to another position or location within an establishment, the President shall communicate in writing the reasons for any such removal or transfer to both Houses of Congress, not later than 30 days before the removal or transfer. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit a personnel action otherwise authorized by law, other than transfer or removal.
In my opinion, there isn't any "meat" in the 30 day notice provision. See no prohibition on 30 day suspension, which is not transfer or removal. A typical law, looks good, but is INTENTIONALLY superficial or hollow. Any "meat" in Walpin's removal has to do with the reasons. See Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, etc.
No meat AND Walpin has no standing to enforce that section. Congress would have to sue the president I believe. (way over my head). He might be able to get a writ of mandamus.
There is no recourse to a court remedy. This is strictly a political issue. Congress appropriates the funds and also legislates the existence of watchdog agents. If Congress finds the president is out of line, it applies political pressure. If he strays too far, they have the power of impeachment. If the president is a crook, he SHOULD be impeached, disgraced, removed, and barred from future office - all of that is within Congress's power.
Why would he want a hearing in front of those Democrat sleazebags? We know what the outcome would be.
Now our erstwhile “news media” will tell us every bad thing they can find in the life of Gerald Walpin.
My sincere hope is that the “news media” liberal hucksters soon go out of business.
Thanks. I suspected he served at the pleasure of the President much like the Attorneys General do.
Mr. Walpin will need to file a few civil suits.
The sooner the better.
Mr Kevin Johnson, useing my tax dollars to have his car washed. The only one fied is the guy who uncovered it.
And Clair McAsshole is A-OK with it.
That was quite a book.
A farce. Congressional hearings will be a repeat of the hearings about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as the Rats provide cover for Obama.
An 18 year old all star Girls volleyball team of 6 has more nads than these RINO dirtbags.
Do you have a pic of Clair McAssschole?
Just wondering...
If he doesn’t get his hearing now, he’ll get it in 2010.
Another thought for Talpin would be to file an injunction to halt the business at AmeriCorps because it has no independent oversight, and is pending Congressional action due to the illegal firing of the existing IG.
Very similar, but also somewhat different. The IG is basically "eyes of Congress," to insure that appropriated funds go where they are supposed to. Naturally, they are also "eyes of the executive," as he is charged with upholding fraud laws.
As a basic proposition, it's politically dangerous to terminate either a US Attorney or an IG that is handling cases "close to home." Clinton/Reno took lots of heat for asking for a resignation from Jay Stephens, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. He was investigating allegations against Dan Rostenkowski and other House Democrats.
So, in the same vein, removing Walpin before the investigations of Obama croneys is done is politically hazardous; and Obama is also -personally- short-circuiting a set of findings from the group that renders findings and opinions on the ethics of IG's.
Acting US Attorney Brown has filed a complaint against Walpin, and I think Brown's complaint is a matter of self-preservation (playing Chicago politics for "the boss," cover for the target of an investigation and be promoted, or don't play ball and be fired), rather than a legitimate complaint. I'll look around some, but as far as I know, it is unprecedented for a US Attorney and an IG to go at each other's throats over protecting a target - usually, a US Attorney and an IG are a tag team on the same side, saving government money, rooting out fraud, etc.
If Congress, and Senator Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa are carrying the challenge and demanding good reasons for Walpin's termination. The media will bury the story as it develops, so it will take effort to keep oneself apprised.
Meanwhile, Brown has managed to bury the wrongdoing in the St. HOPE Academy case - with Walpin submitting a special report to Congress on that front, and that front meriting its own Congressional investigation.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking information from AmeriCorps about the Walpin firing. The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee is also seeking information on documents that had allegedly been withheld from Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (SIGTARP), the $700-billion financial bailout package launched last fall.SIGTARP happened on Bush's watch, but considering Obama's pledge and presidental directive toward open government ... WHY is Obama withholding SIGTARP documents from the overseeing IG?
BTW, Neil Barofsky is a Bush IG appointee, too.
You got that right, Joe!!!
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