Posted on 06/28/2009 7:01:32 PM PDT by Libloather
He says ... Obama’s distractions lead to Constitution’s destruction
By Bill Roe
He says ...
The morning sunshine broke over Washington, D.C., this past weekend. Many Americans watched the sad news in Iran as it came on TV while they listened to the television news shows lamenting the failure of the stimulus packages. A news flash broke in showing the riots in Iran taking place because of a corrupt election where the ballot boxes were stuffed.
Sadly, young Iranian protesters were being killed in the streets. Our president told his staff that his children wanted ice cream, so Mrs. Obama put on her $530 sneakers and a 10-car motorcade headed out to Georgetown for ice cream. I would rather the priority at that moment to have been for the president to speak out for the rights of those Iranians, mostly youths; the protesters also included females. Silence is golden, some say, but liberty and freedom are precious.
This is where the president and I disagree. There are those who say my columns belabor the presidency of Obama. Yet I deal with his actions because they are current while the left still is fixated on former President Bush. A new poll by Rasmussen shows Obama’s holiday on the economy is over. Thirty-nine percent of respondents say Obama’s big-spending policies are heading to failure. At the same time, the polls show his strong readings slipping to a new low.
President Obama taught constitutional law in Chicago but his actions are in direct contradiction of constitutional powers, which is definitely a cause for concern. With the presidency, House and Senate controlled by Democrats we are seeing the Constitution rolled like never before.
Obama, by improperly firing Inspector General Walpin, showed his arrogance, mind I didn’t say ignorance, of the law.
He fired Walpin and two others so he could put political friends in those positions, just like he did with our new attorney general, Eric Holder. The qualifier for these jobs is to be a friend of the president, not whether they are the best qualified for the job operating under the established law that justice is blind.
The question has been raised to the Obama administration as to who fired Walpin and why. The answer was mumbo jumbo, but apparently the Obamas were willing to use their political influence to get involved in a sensitive investigation of their friend Kevin Johnston, who apparently misused thousands of dollars of Americorp funds.
The administration accused Walpin of having problems with concentration and making statements that were incorrect. This past week I have seen six excellent interviews with Walpin, who has had an outstanding career until the smear job he received by the administration.
He is articulate and energetic, plus if he sees that something is wrong he will not participate in a cover-up. When compared with Vice President Joe Biden, well, there just is no comparison. Maybe Obama in his arrogance of the law should fire Biden; however, then we would get Pelosi, whose positive numbers are rockbottom after she tried a cover-up by turning on the CIA and calling them liars.
Walpin is eager to see a congressional investigation of his firing, as this is the way it is done in a free America. Our president seems to be consumed with his personal agenda and liberal party ideologies which truly threaten our Constitution. I say bring it on Mr. Walpin, you are a patriot.
Allies and former colleagues of Gerald Walpin, the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service fired by President Obama, are mounting an aggressive defense of his integrity and competency.
A bipartisan group of 145 current and former public officials, U.S. attorneys and legal scholars signed a letter vouching for his competency. The June 23 letter was sent to White House Counsel Gregory Craig, as well as the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and the House Government Oversight panel.
“We have known Gerald Walpin as a leading member of the New York Bar for many years,” they wrote. “Many of us have seen him and heard him speak including at this month’s meeting of the Second Circuit Judicial Conference and last week’s meeting of the Board of the Federal Bar Council.”
The letter was a response to White House Special Counsel Norman Eisen, who characterized Walpin as “confused, disoriented” and “unable to answer questions” during a May 20 meeting of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Eisen made that charge in a letter to Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chairman and ranking member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
Those who signed the letter include: former Attorney General Michael Mukasey; Bernard Nussbaum, President Clinton’s former counsel; former U.S. Attorneys Otto Obermaier, John Martin, Zachary Carter and Andrew Maloney; and six former and current presidents of the Federal Bar Council.
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This is an excerpt.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/allies-of-official-fired-by-obama-mount-defense-2009-06-24.html
I give her credit for not taking Air Force One to Vermont for some Ben & Jerry's.
Perhaps she needs to add a dairy cow to the gardening routine. Making ice cream in the WH would be so much “healthier” for the family. Oh wait, cows contribute to global warming....nevermind.
Someone needs to photoshop BO eating an ice cream that jumps up and an AF1 place shoots through it...
Is he trying to be serious here? If so, he's 0 for 2.
But is he clean???
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