Obama Has Fired Other Inspectors General

Obama’s firing of Americorp Inspector General Gerald Walpin is not an isolated incident. His administration has gone after other Inspectors General and fired two of them.

This is alarming because the office of Inspector General is designed to be above politics in order to protect taxpayers from their tax dollars being abused. A bit idealistic, yes. But someone needs to have the protected watchdog role of blowing the whistle on government waste and fraud.

But Obama is undermining that role at the same time that he is greatly increasing the power and spending of government. . . .

One doesn’t have to be a paranoid right-winger to suspect something is very wrong here.

Obama’s AmeriCorps Scandal

Obama likes to talk (and talk and talk) about cutting wasteful spending. But don’t try to cut off government money to Obama’s cronies, or you will get cut off, just like now former AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin.

Walpin was suddenly fired from his position, in violation of a federal law Senator Obama co-sponsored. Walpin’s crime? Cutting off federal funds from Obama crony Kevin Johnson after he was caught using AmeriCorps funds for personal and political purposes. That Sacramento just elected that crook as mayor made things that much more awkward.

There are other aspects to this that don’t pass the smell test. First Lady MacBeth Michelle Obama is flooding AmeriCorps with her people for one thing. Musn’t have a Bush holdover getting in the way of funneling the money to cronies.

So out goes Walpin for doing his job and doing it well. For “Change” has come to the White House, Chicago-style.

Oh, and don’t expect the Democrat Congress to investigate this.

The Wall Street Journal has written a good summary of the story as has Michelle Malkin.

I’ve called this matter a scandal. That might be a bit hopeful on my part. The Democrat Congress and the Obama-loving news media will likely enable the Obamas to get away with this.