Thursday, June 18, 2009

Not exactly a profile in "courage", if you ask us

The firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin was apparently an "act of political courage" on the part of the Messiah.

How do we know this? Just ask the Obama White House, and they'll reassure you of that fact themselves.

What complete hubris.

In other news, it looks like another inspector general, this time at the International Trade Commission, was canned last week, three hours after Republican Senator Charles Grassley sent the ITC a letter inquiring about allegations of agency employees preventing the IG from properly doing her job:

"Grassley is now concerned about whether a pattern is emerging in which the independence of the government's top watchdogs -- whose jobs were authorized by Congress to look out for waste, fraud and abuse -- is being put at risk."

Uh, gee, you think?

It seems that it's quite a dangeous time to be an IG these days, at least for those few who are bravely standing up to the Obama Express.

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