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Chicago Thug Fires Inspector General

Shades of Richard Nixon, Byron York has dug into Barack Obama firing of AmeriCorps Gerald Walpin. It seems that  Walpin had the audacity to investigate Obama’s political supporter, and hack, Kevin Johnson. from Washington Times [1]:

The AmeriCorps IG accuses prominent Obama supporter of misusing AmeriCorps grant money. Prominent Obama supporter has to pay back more than $400,000 of that grant money. Obama fires AmeriCorps IG.

Note that Johnson is black.  It does seem that Eric Holder’s Justice Department is indeed color blind.

Hat tip and more: Shublog,  Ace of Spades Hq [2]:

The difference is, in this version, the media is the Charles Colson-esque attack dog protecting the president. Other than that, this smells a lot like abuse of power.

Michelle [3] has more and dumping the mess into the lap of Michelle Obama:

With intervention from Michelle Obama, the Americorps inspector general was given the boot and replaced — for doing his job too well, it seems, and uncovering squandering of funds by favored contributors, educational institutions, and left-wing groups

What ever happened to that post-racial thingy?

 

addendum: (Eric):

And for that matter, whatever happened tothe  Transparency we were promised???

 Reynolds is tracking this one [4], too. You know damned well the Dinosaurs won’t.

 Ed Morrissey has apparently made the same connection [5]:

David Freddoso tried to explain [6] that the only change Barack Obama would bring to the Beltway would be an introduction of the Chicago Machine politics that made him successful to the Beltway.  The Inspector General of AmeriCorps, one of Obama’s pet projects, has discovered this the hard way. 

Personally I”m reminded of Nixon firing Archibald Cox, myself… except for the part where the Democrats have a fit about it. Of course, that part won’t happen here.