Some people just aren’t on board with the program:
An inspector general fired by President Barack Obama said Friday he acted “with the highest integrity” in investigating AmeriCorps and other government-funded national service programs. Gerald Walpin said in an interview with The Associated Press that he reported facts and conclusions “in an honest and full way” while serving as inspector general at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Duh.
And when they came for the Inspector Generals, I said nothing…
Baracky is disregarding the legislation that he sponsored that gave additional protections to IG’s from political influence. Baracky was against this before he was for it.
Michelle is there to protect the Chi-Town machine.
Michelle O that is.
MSM:
“His style was reckless and sloppy, and the charges he leveled against St. Hope Academy completely unfounded…And was roundly criticized by the Acting US attorney in Sacramento, himself a recent political apointee…”
“And now for something completely different…”
“In a completely unrelated story Kevin Johnson, founder of the same St. Hope Academy, agreed to repay half of the $847,000 in grant money that was in question…But maintains complete innocence and denies any wrongdoing or malfeasance…”
Walpin was a victim of the new kind of politics the President palavered about during the campaign, and discovered that uncovering an inconvenient truth about one of Obama’s supporters led directly to the unemployment line…
Brilliance!, Judgement!, Integrity!, No Lobbyists!, Transparency! Honesty!
The Most Ethical Administration-EVAH!
O!
Alberto Gonzales must be the cause of this!
Bob – This is naked partisanship, at its worst, and I guaranfuckingtee that the MSM will either ignore it, or paint the IG out to be some kind of evil Republican that would have been fired by anyone.
It’s home run or nothing.
“He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight.”
– Senator John Randolph of Virginia, commenting on
fellow lawmaker Edward LivingstonPresident ObamaNothing to see here, keep moving folks. Nothing here, trust me.
In my world CNC is a machine that uses tools. About the same in the Obama land, just warped for a different function, a grafting machine.
Isn’t it supposed to be St Hope and Change Academy??
Or maybe it’s Stimulus Academy.
Or TAX CHEAT ACADEMY.
OR Alinsky Academy,
Or maybe Ayers/Dohrn academy
or maybe Trinty 20 year racist church Academy???
Andrew Sullivan is litterally tieing himself in knots over at the Dish, turns out Obama’s Team did approve the DOMA memo. Ouch! Rule of Law and all of that. Sullivan still manages to bash a Mormon though.
If there was an “(R)” after his name this would be played as “Saturday Night Massacre”II. With a “(D)” meh.
JD,
I still haven’t heard any wailing about Obama replacing US attorneys with his new cadre…
But when Boooooosh! replaced 9 out of qoo, all we heard about was, “They’re Politicizing! DOJ..”
Well wake the fuck up America, just what was that whole dropping the charges against the BP’s, dropping the case in Georgia about ID at the polls, AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE HOLDER HAS DONE SO FAR…
About the only thing good is them shipping the wee-gars out of the US…
I wonder when Eminem is leaving..?
Wait til the Porkulus money gets slathered onto ACORN and all the other ridiculously corrupt lib organizations. The corruption and graft will be epic. And the RACE CARD will have it’s limit reduced.
“Keep working, keep drinking and – take your television’s advice.”
— Firesign Theatre
Sending the cats away so Baracky’s mice can play.
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
— Groucho Marx
Hey-Hey !!!
*hic*
Congrats Pens! Well done.
Now get Scuderi a set of pads and face mask so he can start practicing to take away Fleury’s job next year.
That last save by Fleury was awesome.
The IG got fired because he was supposed to be up in Alaska, digging around Wasilla. When he refused that order, he was already on a short leash, so naturally when he went all Van Patter on Americorps he was toast.
True JD, but his post-season as a whole wasn’t the bees knees, all taken in all. Adequate for sure, just not great. The fricken forecheck was pretty consistently awesome though. And just no quit in ’em, ever. They caught the fever last year and were blood-oath sworn to get’er back.
guinsPen, well played, enjoy the cup. Next year it’s ours :-)
CmonSickemFuckinChristPopEm !!!
Stickemtoo !!!
Okay, I’m backing away slowly, see nothing in my hands. Just gimme three steps mister, three steps toward the door.
Hat tip to Badger Bob’s Penguins.
Badger Bob, rest in Peace my brother.
From Small Dead Animals How ACORN will benefit from the 2010 census.
Hey, what could be, or go wrong with that.
Amen, gus.
Ice Hockey, the International Language.
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pablo i’m drinkin reagan 1980 vintage
Oh, that’s a good one newrouter.
An article for others up early:The Obama Effect in regards to the Iranian election.
Money quote?
It seems the Iranians aren’t into hopenchange, and Bammy is going to have to deal with the Ahmalittlecrackpot what he inherited from Booooosh.
router, you’re drinking 1980 vintage what? Drano?
What prolly got him fired I think is that he casually mentioned investigating ACORN next.
That could never be tolerated.
Is Obama really Otter?
ACORN has no business pawing through our private data.
Who do we sue to stop this? And if we can’t use the courts, what are our other options?
Hey Britian: Is that Uighurs in the Mist, on Bermuda. Surprise!
Hey Gays: Fuck you too.
Nah, if that was the case the Progressives would be Flounder. Flounder was too nice and lovable for that analogy. From the inside the leaders on the left map more to Neidermeyer, pretending to be an Otter. They are not a fun bunch.
Gays and Britian, under the bus, Obama has to implement health care, Americans are uninsured!
Oh oh: “The British National Health Service is the biggest employer not just in the United Kingdom, but in the whole of Europe. Care to estimate the size and budget of a U.S. health bureaucracy?”
Progressives followers have the naive faith of Flounder, with the mendancity of Doug. The only reason I said Obama was Otter, is the classic: You fucked up, you trusted us line. Seems like the President is saying that a lot now.
And thank you for an excellent point, here is a palate cleanser.
Its possible this guy really is a screw up, that he was sloppy and made poor decisions. Its possible that he wasn’t very good at his job. It just seems very coincidental, to say the least, that President Obama is firing the guy after investigating three campaign supporters and leftist pet causes.
Christopher Taylor, about as possible as Obama shooting flowers from his johnson and dancing with unicorns.
That is Obama, but the jocularity is forced, false, not natural, more ominous and has a fuck you feel to it.
On your Bermuda link. I’ve said that I think Obama is the Clinton 8 years compressed in time and amped up. Clinton’s actions during his first two years led right to the Republicans, generally conservative at the time, taking back Congress. I have the feeling that Obama’s actions will have an similar effect but brought to a wider stage.
The Labour Party in England had a setback in the recent elections. Obama weakened the already weak Gordon Brown by his treatment of him. This action will certainly make Labour look to be more of the “poodle” than Blair ever was with Bush. If it leads to a terrorist act in the Caribbean then it will redound unfavorably world around.
And here is Olbermann claiming Dave Letterman is a victim and that Palin is using her daughters.
Caroline Glick pens a dark column on Obama’s aims in the Israeli Palestinian struggle. It’s possible people who trusted Obama to be even handed will discover that they too have been fooled.
Hells bells Caroline, if you think Obama’s underestimation of Israel’s security needs are bad, think how we Americans feel when he can’t grasp the security needs he is actually charged with maintaining. Worse, as he projects weakness and naivite he draws the likelihood of armed conflict nearer. Buckle-up, it’s going to get bumpy.
Uighurs certainly look to have been starved and brutalized at Gitmo.
From your link sdferr. Worse than I had imagined.
So we now support “Judenfrei” as official policy. Can we now say that Goldberg’s book is correct.
See also this at WklyStndBlog in conjunction with this note at Contentions on Obama’s premature statement on the Iranian elections yesterday. He’s not just maliciously naive, he’s stupid to boot. Whatever good result may come from Iranian public anger at being robbed of their elections by the mullahs, Obama has found a way to miss the opportunity to help the forces of political freedom and bolster the forces of repression. A gifted putz, our President.
The GI story just gets worse-smelling. Walpin not only pursued Johnson’s inappropriate expenditures of grant money, but objected to the sham settlement that completely took Johnson off the hook for same, and only requires the organization to repay. An organization now insolvent.
Hey, free money. And Walpin out the door.
Shaming, especially done by the afflicted party is one thing, this however crosses into territory where (to my mind) true conservatives should not go.
Iran does a Chavez and Obama does a Carter. A worst from the worst Presidency.
Peter Berkowitz whistles prettily into the wind. Conservatism and the University Curriculum .
I was reminded of the closing line from Chinatown: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
For Chinatown, read Chicago.
Fixed…
He acted “with the highest integrityâ€. Sure he did.
Gerald Walpin contributed to both the Giuliani and McCain campaigns.
Anyone who construes him as being anything other than a classic sore loser is either lying for effect or being extremely naive.
Or needs to change the bulb in their projector.
Sure DU, whatever you say…
By the way, how did the Union contributions run last election..?
You know, big labor? Who will benefit in an outsized way from the Chrysler and GM bankruptcy deals..?
Or, how about Immelt and GE? Who stand to benefit greatly if Obama can ram through his phony “green” initiatives..? And, can a price even be affixed to the propagandistic support NBC and MSNBC, both subsidiaries of GE, gave Obama both then and now..?
Who did AG Holder contribute to? Who did the car Czar’s wife work for..?
There are countless other examples that exceed Walpin’s in both magnitude and imputation of ill or nefarious intent..?
DU, poon, assclown, alphie, parsnip; whomever you really are, since you’re another anonymous internet superman, why don’t you at least have a shred of intellectual honesty and not bring something lame to the table like AN INDIVIDUALS personal contributions in your accusations of malfeasance…
Bob,
That was down right inspiring. You sir have talent. (Standing at attention and saluting)
I believe I declared the “sore loser” argument to be a fail months ago.
See, it’s not an argument. It’s a schoolyard taunt.
But, I suppose that simply because Walpin was a Republican donor is enough to get him fired, right?
Thanks Danger,
But I pale in comparison to many of the PW commentariat regulars…
And we all salute you for your service in all our stead, and for your contributions here too!
(Snapping to, and returning your salute)
“Comment by Dapper Usurper on 6/13 @ 1:30 pm #
There are countless other examples that exceed Walpin’s in both magnitude and imputation of ill or nefarious intent..?
Tu quoque, thy name is Wingnut.”
Fuckhead, thy name is “Dapper Usurper”
And the Democratic corruption flows on and on.
“By the way, how did the Union contributions run last election..?
You know, big labor? Who will benefit in an outsized way from the Chrysler and GM bankruptcy deals..?”
I don’t know who said it, but the best description of Obama’s coup agains free enterprise is that is’s a huge money laundering scheme to pay off the unions.
Or at least the union thug bosses, ’cause you KNOW the rank and file ain’t going to get any of the lucre.
DU,
I’m afraid you’re mistaken. Mine is not a tu quoque argument…
Do you believe the outlook of any of the folks I’ve listed to be colored by their contributions to Obama..?
And if not, then why would Walpin’s automatically be so..?
No DU, I wasn’t playing “tu quoque”; that’s another disingenuous rhetorical technique your side has raised to a high art form…
I was merely exposing the hypocrisy inherent in your assertion…
with all due respect…
In fact it is N O’Brain,
In that the unions essentially broke their piggy banks in order to achieve Obama’s election…
Now they’re lookin’ to recoup the cost, so to speak!
And there are many ways to look at the TARP money bailing out Chrysler and GM, companies that the UAW will end up owning larger stakes in than their prior bond-holders. call it money laundering, or maybe closer to the point, “spreading the wealth around!…
You know; because of the fairness…
“Obama has appointed more than a few Republican donors to serve under his administration.”
It’s called covering you bases, asshole.
“Besides, if Walpin (a Clinton appointee) was so unhappy with the program all this time, why would he keep his yap zipped until now?”
Investigations take time, non? And, as the pieces implied, he was willing to go along with the bureaucratic inertia until it became evident that St. Hope was being given a break and only pauing back part pf what they had, ahem, misappropriated…
Doesn’t seem to WATB from the outside looking in…
Unless, of course, you’re an Obama apologist…
I thought Obama was all about Ethics!, Transparency!, and that whole “New Kind of Politics” thing he palavered on about during the campaign…
I guess that doesn’t apply to cases of his crony’s malfeasanse…
And the whole “New Kind of Politics” is just really “The Old Chicago Way”…
Kinda makes your desperate defense of this more WATB stuff…
Notice how they cannot defend these actions without tearing into this guy based on nothing other than Barcky wants to fire him?
Dapper U showed himself to be a lying twatwaffle last time it dropped by. It is batting 1.000.
JD,
That’s one of the things I like about you, bro. Your optimistic view of the bright side of things…
Why you’ve turned DU’s epic fail, into a perfect batting average!
So, I mean, he’s got that going for him at least…
Time to grab another beer!
Bob – Even a shitty batter can start the season off on a hot streak. It will resume striking out like Dave Kingman fanning at a Steve Carlton yacker.
This one is bound to break its streak of abject idiocy. Still @ 1.000, but I would rather have Pujols’ swing.
Fail again DU,
The investigation on St. Hope was over a while ago. There were others on the local ACORN chapter as well. They all fell under the AMERICORPS oversight. He’s being fired for ever having been involved in exposing the malfeasance, and for raising cain about a directive that only half the misappropriated funds be repaid…
So the question to asks is, if Walpin were sooooo hyper-partisan and a WATB, why is he only now getting fired? It looks an awful lot like it’s in response to turning up the heat on some of Obama’s biggest contibutors and campaign workers; an awful lot like a quid pro quo…
That looks to me like quite a bit less than eight years.
Steve Carlton…
Great lefty from the untainted era of baseball…
For real though Baracky could fire all the Walpins from here to Kukamunga what with your average schmo being like what the hell is a Walpin? I think I’m becoming more amenable to Psycho’s view that things are much worse than they seem what with the lefties being overt fascists and all.
Shhh…Bob Reed is on a roll.
Too bad you aren’t.
One possibly interesting aspect of this Walpin firing is the sense in which it resembles other scuffles between the executive and congress which had resulted in the formation of the ** DUN-DUN-DAH ** Unitary Executive Theory.
Obama invoking the Unitary Executive? Ooooooh. Spoooooooky.
Well if I’m wrong, so be it, DU.
I was assuming you were not lying when you said Walpin was a Clinton apointee and had been investigating for 8 years…
Go figure, I thought you would be arguing honestly…
My bad on both counts!
Bob – You should know better than to expect a troll to be honest.
JD,
You’re right, but, having should have known better is one of the recurring themes in my life…
Wait, I think there’s the foundation for a country music hit in that sentance!
Thanks for the link, sdferr. Or maybe I should’t thank you. It’s the sort of news that ruins sleep. A suspicion I’ve had for years is now finally congealing in my mind: Obama, in his recondite Leftist way, wishes to be the president who presided over the end of Israel.
I’ve wondered before whether Obama, had he been in Harry Truman’s position (an absurdity, of course, but play along anyway) would have recognized Israel at her founding, or fought to do everything within his power to stop that founding in its tracks. Given what Truman himself was up against, I don’t think Obama would have had much trouble rejecting her at all.
sdferr,
Following on your historical, “what if?”, I’m certain Obama would have had no problem helping Britain retain it’s colonial empire; all while bemoaning that the Brit’s needed to free their African Colonies, but the others-not so much…
But, you know, Obama is also a “the buck stops here” kind of guy; but not exactly like Truman…
Still, he won’t rest until all of our bucks have made their way into the government coffers!
I was thinking more along the lines of his backing the invading Arab armies Bob, rather than helping the Brits keep an empire they’ld long decided to divest themselves of.
Imagine though for a moment, that the native Arabs in the land of Israel had decided to stay put and ally themselves with the Jews in founding the state of Israel, to be citizens of Israel, to fight against the Arabs invading from Syria, Trans-Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon, to fight right alongside the Jews in order to found their own state, to be out from under the rule of Turks or Brits or Jordanians or Egyptians or what have you.
Where would they be today? They would be many orders of magnitude wealthier than they are now. They would likely out number the Jews of Israel. They would probably hold a majority in the Knesset for instance, though who knows how many parties they would have formed, they might hold the Prime Ministership. Together, those Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews would dominate the local economies of the Levant. They would probably have taken the full extent of Eretz Israel from the invaders, so who knows how well developed that land would be by now.
It’s crazy strange that co-operation would have resulted in far better conditions than the stupid warring could ever do, yet the morons want to continue to fight.
This could get pretty interesting as it presses forward.
Fascinating thought experiment sdferr…
I will say this, had they allied to form the new state, the Palestinians would definately have had a homeland alongside their Jewish brethren just like in Biblical times. And, without a doubt thay collectively would have enjoyed a muuuuuch better life than they do now separately…
Imagine all of the blood that could have been spared, all of the innocents that have suffered collaterally because of the fighting…
Imagine the anxiety the entire world might have been spared!
And maybe no Bin Laden and AQ, or 9/11 to boot!
Walpin was appointed by George W Bush to his present office. His investigation of CUNY and La Raza are what tipped the scales, the previous investigation was settled by a fine.
sdferr, your thought experiment is reality. About 20% of Israel Citizens are Arabs who did not leave during the 1948 war and did not fight Jews. They are full citizens of the Israeli state and have elected members of the Knesset. Israeli Druze are members of the IDF. Muslim and Christian Arabs are not forced to serve in the IDF. Some Bedouin tribes often serve in the IDF, often as trackers or other related jobs.
The politics are complicated. Arab Israelis are shunned by other Arab countries, but many have family ties to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and in Jordan.
Isn’t firing an investigator uncovering corruption in your own party one of those really, really, really bad things? Doesn’t it make it seem like you don’t want the corruption uncovered?
I know of those Arab Israelis Joe, so no, what I was getting at is not reality. What I had conjectured would only have been the case had very nearly 100% of the Arabs stayed and worked together with the Jews. And had that happened there is no telling how things would have worked out altogether, what sort of compromises may have been necessary, what different form the government would have taken on and so forth. Still, I have little doubt that events would have been a great deal for the better for everyone than they have been over the last 60 years.