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gerald walpin does dobbs ~open thread

By American Girl in Italy on June 19, 2009 at 10:30 AM in Arrogance, Corruption, Obama Administration, Sara in Italy

I’m glad to see Mr. Walpin isn’t backing down and letting this go away.



And he’s right, the attacks against him are a great insult.

What kind of firing is this… “Hey buddy, we think it’s time you just move on. Why? Well, we’ve decided we’re going to call you senile.”

What is that?

Jake Tapper has more: Third Inspector General Controversy Emerges

  • jackie

    Obama is so used to smearing peoples names when he wants to get rid of them or defeat them, that he probably thought Walpin would just go away and not say anything.

    I’m glad Walpin is fighting back. I think he should demand an apology from the WH for calling him basically senile and incompetent when he clearly is not.

    • hokma

      This is not just a smear. This was a blatant violation of federal law by Obama.

      Obama and his people have been trying eliminiate opponents in government and in the media since being elected. Their actions are not just unethical but in cases like Walpin are illegal.

      Obama is committing impeachable offenses and because the Congress is controlled Democrats there will be no investigations.

      • Docelder

        In this case, where Obama has publicly admitted he fired Walpin for something that would classify as a disability and that is covered by the ADA… is there no provision for a private lawsuit to invoke a mandatory congressional proceeding? Could somebody, or some organization not file a suit forcing congress to do what would be constitutionally required? Take Bush… did he know? know what? when did he know it? all that is indeterminate. In this case, Obama has already said publicly he did this and exactly why he did it. I don’t think he knew better than to say publicly exactly what he did do. He was never an employer, and probably never had to deal with employment law issues before.

        • Portia Elizabeth

          Where’s the AARP when you need them?

      • http://noquarter foxyladi14

        AND IT.S HIS OWN LAW..LOL

  • oowawa

    I grow old … I grow old …
    I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. (T. S. Eliot)

    Watching the Dobbs interview with Walpin, I was watching sharply for any evidence of mental impairment. He had a couple of minor trips here and there, but then he wasn’t using a teleprompter. And uh, uh, some folks, uh, even uh young ones, tend uh to trip up a little uh without uh a teleprompter. (They should have given him a test to find out how fast he can text messages with his thumbs.) But by and large, he seemed coherent and persuasive to me.

    But I already wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and am probably incapable of making a valid judgment.

    • sowsear

      I’ve heard the mermaids singing each to each myself. Hurrah for Walpin (and TS Eliot, my favorite poet).

    • Judy L. NC

      Now that I’m in my sixth decade, my battlecry is “Remember Captain Sully!”

      • http://helpmejoseph.typepad.com/puma_for_life/ Puma for Life

        Right on!!!

    • Elizabeth

      I wouldn’t give credence to their trumped up charges by even responding. And this line of attack is clearly manufactured. According to a Washington Times investigation, and Walprin by his own admission, he was suffering work induced stress and briefly lost his place at the meeting after being denied the opportunity to straighten out the notes.

      http: //www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2009/jun/17/ig-witness-blows-white-house-excuse/

      • TeakWoodKite

        Elizabeth he was asked to leave for 15 minutes and some person had the gaul to rifle through his papers. Upon returning he was not given time to set his papers right.

        1) If I were him , I would PISSED that someone screwed around with my papers in my absence.
        2) I was not given time to get my pilfered papers squared away.

        Do you not think he is a lucid person?
        Do I read you correctly that you think he was fired for cause as the BO white house claims?

        • http://in Elizabeth

          Absolutely not. Clearly Obama fired this guy for the crime of actually doing his job.

          I was pressed for time this morning. Sorry if it came off with any other insinuation.

          • TeakWoodKite

            No big, I like to make sure I understand a persons point.

            No need for apology, it was me seeking clarification. Thanks.

    • http://www.missmalevolent.com missmalevolent

      I didn’t notice him slip up not one time.

    • pm317
      • oowawa

        That’s quite an impressive collection, pm317. Thanks.

    • Katmoon

      I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

      and pick the flowers in other people’s gardens

      and learn to spit.

      • oowawa

        Love it Katmoon–and long live the Red-Hatters! It inspires me to go and dare to eat a peach.

        • beebop

          Here we go round the prickly pear
          Prickly pear prickly pear
          Here we go round the prickly pear
          At five o’clock in the morning.

          Can you think of a more apt description of the current MADministration? Seriously?

    • inconsiderable wretch

      An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress….

  • politicalidentitycrisis

    I’m glad CNN is covering this story. The sad thing is that bots don’t watch Lou Dobbs.

    • NYCgirl

      I saw that interview last night and I was thinking the same thing: The people who put down Dobbs the most are the ones who never watch his show. Dobbs has promised to follow this Walpin story. Maybe his coverage will start to get some notice in the dark corners of the Obot Realm (otherwise known as the MSM).

  • Michele in Tampa

    I have so much respect for this man. We need men and women of his caliber and character in office. I would like to publicly thank him for standing up for what he believes is right; and that is to stand up against injustice and to send fair warning to the rest of us of what is coming if we do not speak up and if our representatives do not act to stop this crazy train.

  • NomNomNom

    OT:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703271_pf.html
    “An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick’s infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn’t know whether dangerous toxins were missing.”

    • candymarl

      Not again. Isn’t that the same lab where the anthrax came up missing?

      Where the heck is Congress on this? Some serious investigating is well overdue.

      • Portia Elizabeth

        Congress is out buying up antibiotics.

  • EWard

    American Girl

    Thanks for the Walpin video. This man is to be commeneded for standing up to the Chicago Way. The Watergate saga was all about following the money. This story is no different. Follow the Ameri Corp dollars from Kevin Johnson and the NY Cuny system and we see a pattern of paybacks, illegal activities which all lead to BO protecting the people that got him elected. This is at a time that the President is attempting the takeover of companies and different industries to consolidate his power.

    I’m not a fan of Jake Tapper or ABC News. If you read his piece, he had a couple of caveats that the third Inspector General firing had nothing to do with Obama. What a farce!

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    I, too, am glad Walpin is not backing down. GOOD FOR HIM! And GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY!!! It’s abt damn time people really stood up to this empty suit sham of a prez petulant egomaniac we have in the WH. We could sure use some more people like Walpin in this country…

    • http://noquarter foxyladi14

      bout time someone took a stand.I applaud him…

  • Lily

    Thank-you Mr Walpin. It’s one thing to be a desk jockey and another thing entirely to expose one’s alleged senility to millions of people on national TV. Mr Walpin deserves a medal.

    If the truth be told, IGs could probably find similar irregularities in just about every federally funded program on the books. I have always heard that such embarrassments were avoided by avoiding an audit of known or suspected fund abusers. I guess Mr Walpin stepped over the line when he opened the books of Obama’s friend and supporter. And who is this White House counsel, Norman Eisen? Can Obama throw him under the bus or is he too close to one of Obama’s chief administrative surrogates?

    Let’s see how can the White House squelch this. Wasn’t Congress going to hold hearings on the firings of all those US Attorneys during the Bush Administration?

    Different party…same tactics. This really stinks Congress people.

    • trixta

      Wasn’t Congress going to hold hearings on the firings of all those US Attorneys during the Bush Administration? Different party…same tactics. This really stinks Congress people.

      My thoughts exactly!

      • TexasMirth

        Don’t jump on me, please, but I thought the firing of U.S. Attorneys was the prerogative of the president, which is different than firing Walpin without the 30 day notice that Inspector Generals were supposed to receive. I am not justifying the firing of the attorneys, I’m just thinking that the firing of Walpin actually violated the law (the one that Obama signed when he was a senator requiring the 30 day notice) and thus, is a worse offense. Am I right or wrong on this?

        • Docelder

          What would be great is for somebody to formally ask for Holder’s opinion on this. He will either be truthful, or paint the both of them into the same corner.

        • Animal Control

          Am I right … on this?

          Yes, accompained by a reasonable explanation. It is not the Presidents perogative as in the case of the US Attorneys.

          That’s my understanding.

        • http://noquarter foxyladi14

          yupp.

        • Lily

          Not being an attorney, I have the simple-minded view that if any of these actions were taken to protect a lawbreaker, then it would be obstruction of justice.

  • pm317

    I vaguely remember a comment on one of these boards during the primary that said something to indicate abuse of Americorp funds in NY — something like “wait till you hear about what is going on with Americorp here.” If others remember it or know a source, I hope they post a comment here.

    Media is not doing its job.

    • http://noquarter foxyladi14

      media has never done it,s job about bo..

  • http://www.sonicninjakitty.wordpress.com Sonic Ninja Kitty

    Hi AGI–glad you are back–your writing was very much missed!

    Open thread: Here’s a funny article–this person was taking a survey as to what to name our current economic crisis. Instead of letting the Obots name it something heroic like “The Great Struggle”, he suggests jumping ahead and finding a proper name:

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block132.html

    You can vote for 3. Personally, I like the “‘Yes We Can’ Depression”.

  • helenk

    Backtrack’s Brave New World

    Media covers up facts

    Investigators not allowed to investigate his friends

    Money given to corporations and jobs go overseas

    Fisa is now a good thing.

    Free speech a memory.

    Attack the old and women.

    Do not expect any promise from him to come true.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

  • Carrie

    He didn’t sound any more confused than our wonderful VP.

    • Docelder
      • Docelder

        Here is the relevant part

        Contrary to what turned up in preclinical testing, botulinum toxin can travel along neurons from the injection site into the brain, at least in lab animals.

      • http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

        Finally, Nancy Pelosi has an excuse for her stupid behavior! ^^^^

        • Portia Elizabeth

          The “I didn’t know they’d actually use torture” defense.

      • http://noquarter foxyladi14

        naw..it,s the hairplugs.to close to the brain doncha know???????

    • trixta

      Yeah, remember Obama’s Steve Croft interview where BO laughed at the oddest moments as if he were high on something? Why hasn’t the media chewed on that for a while?

      • Mary Beth

        No, but I would love to!! Is it on you tube?

        • trixta

          Here’s the link to Steve Croft’s “Are you punch drunk?” interview with Obama:

          http://www.rantnation.com/w/?p=43

          • Ladydawnelle

            oh crap

            Y did you make me go to that LINK???? ewwwww

            I can’t STAND listening to him. He is SUCH a FRAUD!! FOOL!!PUNK!! Can’t STAND HIM!

            ok it’s officially worse than watching W

            holy GOD I would have bet you a year’s income that would NEVER happen (if you asked me a few years ago)

            yuck I really hate being drug down here in the gutter with these south side punk azzes! I really hate being drug down here in the fascist muck.

            W led this American horse to the dirty water but Bambi is FORCING US TO DRINK!!

            • TeakWoodKite

              Don’t worry about a thing, LadyD. I just saw that BO was referred to as “First Father” by CNN. He wants fathers to “step up”.

      • http://noquarter foxyladi14

        because his name isn’t Clinton..

  • John

    coup d’état written all over the walls… it was right in front of us the whole time

  • helenk

    the justice department under backtrack’s brave new world.

    http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/19/judge-rejects-argument-cheney-needs-to-be-shielded-from-daily-show/

    Slander a man for doing his job but protect a man who disgraced this country.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

    • TeakWoodKite

      helenk, that link is a riot!

      If it wasn’t regarding Cheneys interview with Patrick Fitzgerald about Valerie Wilson, I would be laughing. The grotesque irony is that people voted for BO on the issue of transparency. Now he won’t investigate or release info and will argue the same lame shit Bush did.

      Remarkable.

      I am sure it is a pack of lies he told the US Attorney but would still make for an interseting read.

  • mark connette

    Someone in this administration needs to speak up{hint,hint} Someone in this administration needs to resign in protest over this man’s firing…it reminds me of travel-gate and has a strong resemblance to what pres. bush did to some u.s. attorneys. We need a real leader to speak about this outrage! Any suggestions as to who in this administration needs to step up to the plate?

    • Docelder

      If none will, then they should all share the same fate, because they all share the same level of complicity.

    • trixta

      Actually, Mark, this whole Inspector General scandal is very reminiscent of the Alberto Gonzales firings of selected Attorney Generals who refused to tow GWB’s line on a host of issues.

      BTW, the Right’s “travel gate” campaign never amounted to much.

    • Portia Elizabeth

      I’m sure you aren’t implying HRC. ;)

      (I hope she will wait for the ultimate dramatic moment to tell That One what he can do with his mandates.)

      V. bad joke: BO’s idea of a mandate is Larry Sinclair.

  • oowawa

    Open thread item: Has anyone else noted the delicious irony that the destroyer USS John McCain is moving to intercept the North Korean vessel suspected of carrying nuclear no-no’s?

    • Ani

      Hi oowawa!

      I just noticed the same thing myself when I saw the article on Drudge!

      Love it. Do you think the navy chose that ship deliberately?? Or was it just in the ‘hood?

      • oowawa

        Hi Ani. I certainly don’t think that President O was aware that John McCain was being sent to handle the confrontation. I’ll bet there are some admirals who are really chuckling about this.

        • NYCgirl

          I had the same comment when I saw that on Fox News site earlier! I said to my co-worker, “They’re sending in the USS John McCain! Gotta love that! I bet the Navy did that on purpose!”

          Good on them! :-D

        • http://noquarter foxyladi14

          I am.

    • NYCgirl

      Also note: Our esteemed Sec’y of State had elbow surgery this morning and is home resting and taking pain medication. Who’s in charge?? It’s 3am …

      • trixta

        I wish HRC a speedy recovery and much well-deserved R&R!

        • Ani

          Amen!

        • http://noquarter foxyladi14

          she sure can use it.they have been working her to death..

          • Don

            “…have been working her to death.” Well, at least twisting her arm!

    • Katmoon

      Now that is quite delicious, nice, gave me a big smile.

    • VinceP

      A tangent but on the same theme…

      The naval vessel involved with the Maersk Captain – Somali Pirate thing was the USS Bainbridge

      Bainbridge was captain of the US navy ship sent to neutralize the Islamic terrorists interfering with American commerce from North Africa.

      He botched his mission and had to humiliatingly serve as the Taxi for the local rulers and shuttle them from North Africa to Constantinople and back.

      • VinceP

        oh the thing that made the ship’s namesake interesting was the initial humiliation that Obama was forcing upon the Navy by his not allowing them to protect the Captain and kill his captors asap.

  • http://patriotparty1 patriotparty1

    Investigate ACORN and Americorp from top to bottom.
    Did anyone see Lou’s interview with the Senator and ACORN’s president? He says there is a contract for ACORN to work on the census. She says produce it if you have it. He says audit everything including the over 200 business names coming out of the old funeral home in New Orleans. She says you cant do it. The FBI has got to get on this. They all smell of RICO charges and Michelle by belle is in it up to her booty!
    Come on FBI, you’ve got work to do!

    • Docelder

      200 business names coming out of the old funeral home in New Orleans

      That in itself speaks volumes. Why would a legitimate entity need 200 different aliases? Then again, the pertinent question is what could an illegitimate entity do with that? The ultimate truth of the entity is contained in the answer to that question.

    • Portia Elizabeth

      Do you know if City Year is one of the 200? This group popped up on my radar recently and I’ve bee trying to find out who they really are.

  • http://noliinsipientiuminiuriaspati.blogspot.com/ adagioforstrings

    Harvey points out that Obama has a difficult time telling his right from his left & wonders if he will be fired for being confused.

    • hokma

      It’s called impeachment and unfortunately the conspirators are the jury right now.

    • pm317

      Oh, no. I have an upcoming post for NQ along the same lines. Who is this Harvey? Great minds think alike.

  • trixta

    I find it ironic that Sen Claire McCaskill (MO) is complaining that Obama — her guy — is breaking the law (which she sponsored) concerning these IGs in question.

    • pm317

      She did at first but now says 0bama has complied with Congress’s inquiry/request completely. She is a joke.

      • trixta

        Well, isn’t that surprising—NOT!(Didn’t McCaskill also sponsor legislation regarding McCain’s citizenship status?) I guess she’s fulfilling her function as a crony for BO.

  • http://helpmejoseph.typepad.com/puma_for_life/ Puma for Life

    I applaud this man. He is very courageous. Don’tknow what will happen;hope he is safe.

  • Mary Beth

    I’m not in agreement of much of what Sen. McCaskill does, but on this issue, it seems to me that she HAD to bring this out in the open, because it was her law that both she and BO sponsored and he signed!!

    Looks like Walpin is not the only IG to be fired. Looks like two more are quietly being let go.

  • Patience

    I hope Mr. Walpin perseveres. Since he’s a former prosecutor and Yale-educated lawyer, I’m hoping he’s aware of exactly which laws have been violated and that he has the wherewithal to pursue legal remedy.

    While I have no doubt cronyism in Washington has been in existence since the very beginning of our country, the dismissal of this IG in order to cover up an instance of it by the new administration AND the way it was done has simply gone too far. The fact that the POTUS broke a law he himself co-sponsored less than 2 years ago is outrageous and he should be held accountable.

    Transplanted Chicago-style thuggery and fraud must be stopped!

  • Donna “Abigail Adams” Brazile

    Well damn!

    Markle, Gugalooloo, and what the SF, love them some That One and his ole’ Chicago politics. Take down the man with integrity for the one without any.

    Keep the adorationfest and forget reality.

    psst— you’re next by the way.

  • Mandelay

    The only evidence of early senility I’ve seen in recent months is some guy who claims he’s the POTUS, but who cannot utter a coherent word without his TOTUS.

    I.G. Walpin is hot stuff — he sounds like one smart cookie to me. Let’s hope Lou keeps hammering away at this.

    Sad days for this country.

    • http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

      Absolutely correct, Mandelay.

      Walprin for President!

      Why not? He makes more sense than the P(retender)OTUS we have now.

      • Ferd Berfle

        Why not? He makes more sense than the P(retender)OTUS we have now.

        He does make more sense but someone would just pull out the Walpin’s-an-old-cracker card, which lies just under the race card that was pulled so often in the run-up to the election.

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  • J

    Once again your analysis at NQ is very superficial and largely based on the right-wing political attack machine. You also continue to show a lack of knowledge of the facts. Anything to slime the Obama administration. I get it. Who needs facts or some minimal amount of balanced or level headed thinking?

    Choosing to get in bed with a scumbag like Gerald Walpin really shows your colors NQ and American Girl in Italy.

    First of all, Walpin was not fired because he was senile. A bunch of BS. He was fired because he was a right-wing ideologue political hold-over from Bush. He was asked to leave with the change in the administration (like all other political appointees) and he chose not to leave. He was also a horrible inspector general that had extreme right-wing tendencies, which is not the kind of person you are suppose to put into an inspector general job, which generally requires some balance.

    Secondly, get your facts straight on Kevin Johnson. It was Gerald Walpin who display extreme wrong-doing in this affair. He abused his position of power for purely political reasons to try and get a Republican elected mayor of Sacramento. He reached far beyond is mandate as a inspector general.

    Kevin Johnson and his nonprofit organization, the St. Hope Academy, that received funding from AmeriCorps admitted that some of the funds were miss used. They ended up giving half the funds back. It was public knowledge, old news and well known. There was no cover-up here or big scandal. A mistake was made and it was corrected. Walpin uncovered the abuse of funds. No problem with that. The United States Attorney in Northern California looked into the abuse of funds and did not bring any criminal charges and reached a settlement with Johnson and St. Hope. The matter was settle and Johnson was a “stand-up-guy” through the affair. In fact, he was elected Mayor of Sacramento. If it was such a big scandal I hardly think he would have been elected mayor.

    However, what your hero Gerald Walpin did next went well beyond his official mandate and suggest that Walpin was just using his post for purely political reasons. It also suggest that he was the corrupt scumbag in the affair. He went out of his way to publicized the supposed “criminal” wrong doing by Johnson in the days before the Sacramental mayoral election, which Johnson was in and eventually won. Walpin sought publicity for his findings against Johnson in the local media before discussing them with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, “hindering our investigation and handling of this matter.” In fact the Republican acting U.S. attorney appointed by Bush, Lawrence Brown, filed a sharply worded complaint against Walpin with the oversight office for the federal inspector general that charged Walpin with ethical violations in an overzealous assault on Johnson and St. Hope. The U.S. attorney said that Walpin had “overstepped his authority by electing to provide my office with selective information and withholding other potentially significant information at the expense of determining the truth” — in other words, Walpin had failed to provide substantive exculpatory facts to the U.S. attorney, while trying to push the government into opening a criminal probe of Johnson.

    Your man Gerald Walpin was a hard-line conservative in an inspector general position that requires dispassionate judgment and nonpartisan fairness. He has devoted much of his life to the causes of the extreme right, in particular as a trustee of the Federalist Society and as a director of the Center for Individual Rights, a right-wing law foundation devoted to overturning affirmative-action programs. This a guy in March 2008 wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Daily News berating human rights lawyers at Yale Law School for pursuing legal action against John Yoo for his memoranda justifying torture.

    We don’t need scumbags like this guy in our government. This guy could have not been shown the door much faster.

    • jbjd

      The law says, if you want to fire an IG, tell Congress 30 days in advance, first, and state your reason. BO did not. First, he called the IG to resign or be fired. Second, he notified Congress, saying he had lost faith in the man. When cautioned this ‘explanation’ did not comply with the law, he notified a couple of Senators, ‘Based on his conduct at a May Board meeting, I have concluded, the man is losing his mind.’

      Please address the issue; did BO break the law by failing to notify Congress of his intentions? When he did notify Congress, did he claim he fired the IG because he was senile? Does the record support a claim, the man is senile? (Consider in your response not only whether the IG appears senile but whether the conduct of his detractors indicates they considered him to be senile, for example, did they ask him to address a board meeting of the Public Services Corp. less than a week before the firing, which firing was purportedly related to the senility he exhibited at a previous Board meeting held one month earlier?)

    • hokma

      “scumbag like Gerald Walpin”

      What on Earth makes him a scumbag dounchebag? Because he found Obama’s buddy KJ with his hand in the cookie jar?

      Moron, KJ was misappropriating federal money to have people wash his car. KJ should be doing the perp walk.

      Oabam broke the law. Let me repeat that because you seem a little slow. Obama broke the law. Not just any law. A law that he co-sponsored. The law he co-authored (which he should understand since he is a Constitutional intellectual – yeah right) states that the only way to fire an Inspector General is to first give the Congrssional oversight committees a reason and proof for such a firing and to do so at least 30 days prior to such firing. Obama did not do that. He fired the man without warning – without advising Congress – and without a reason except later stating that he was senile. And he did that with 3 of them – all three uncovering problems with Obama’s buds. That my socialist friend is an impeachable offense.

      What we don’t need is douchbags like you trying to hijack this country and turn it into a socialist state.

    • Ferd Berfle

      Why do you insist on posting this spam everywhere, obamatron? It wasn’t passable dreck on the first read and is banal rubbish on the second. I think your Mother is calling, so you best get off her computer.

    • Animal Control

      Hey, you forgot your invectives of Sarah Palin–come back and tell us how you feel about her.

    • http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com sarainitaly

      Excuse me, but it is the Obama administration that labled Walpin as confused, disoriented and questioned his capacity to serve.

      If what you blather on about it true, then why the f*ck didn’t the WH state those reasons, and give him the legally required 30 days?

      The WH created this mess, because of their actions, which were illegal.

      If he was such a horrible IG why the HELL did the WH ask him to speak at events just that week, and why did they ask him to support Sotomayor? And if he is such a right wing hack, as you claim, why the hell would he support Sotomayor?

      Don’t accuse me of not knowing the facts, when you come here and spout off this leftist bullshit, and ignore the facts of Walpin’s dimissal.

      I’m not in bed with anyone – left or right. I am against the Obama WH breaking the law, and smearing a federal employee, by labling him senile.

      And he is not the only IG that was fired in the last 2 weeks.

      So, spare me your bullsh*t. Anything to defend Obama and his friends, huh?

  • Babs

    We had Congressional hearings about the Bush administration ‘s firing of US attorneys, which was legal. US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President; as a matter of fact, Bill Clinton fired all of the US Attorneys serving under him during the first year of his Presidency.
    IGs do not serve at the pleasure of the President and are not subject to indiscriminate firing, as just happened to Mr. Walpin. I pray that this story does not end with a whimper, and that Congressional hearings will result. The Republicans should not let this one fade away.

    • hokma

      Obama committed a premeditated and malicious impeachable act – and no one is talking about impeachment. Our government needs to be taken back.

  • Tricia Spiegel

    Go Mr. Wakpin!!!!!

  • NomNomNom

    OT:
    The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge to limit the scope of a lawsuit filed by the descendants of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo.
    They want BHO’s & Gates’ names taken off the suit.

    “The suit alleges that members of the Order of the Skull & Bones fraternity, whose members are among the most powerful and wealthy in American history, stole some of Geronimo’s remains and moved them in secret to New Haven, Connecticut. It is rumored that a group of bonesmen, allegedly including Prescott Bush — a former U.S. Senator whose son and grandson were both Republican presidents — dug up Geronimo’s grave in 1918 and brought his skull to the society’s clubhouse.” …

    “Geronimo died in 1909 at nearly 90 years of age at Fort Sill.

    He had been held as a prisoner of war for more than 20 years after surrendering to the US military on the understanding he would be allowed to return to his homeland and people.”