Clinton had travel-gate, and Obama has his Ameri-gate (very fitting on many levels).

Gerald Walpin, Inspector General for Corporation for National and Community Service, a Government Sponsored Corporation, was summarily fired by President Obama.  At the time, contrary to the rule of law (which candidate Obama promised to uphold as never before), President Obama fired him without notifying Congress of the reasons for dismissal, or invoking the mandatory 30 day waiting period.  He wanted poor Mr. Walpin out and he had to go NOW.

So what did the Inspector do that was so horrid it required his immediate dismissal - so grave his malfeasance that the President of the United States was compelled to ignore the rule of law?  Was it National Security? Some other grave threat to the Nation perhaps?

No.  According to Obama, backfilling the paperwork require by law to satisfy Congress, Mr Walpin performance at a contentious Board meeting was 'dazed and confused', that Mr Walpin had the audacity to want to telecommute a few days a week from his home in New York,   that he was less than candid with a Board he just got done criticizing, and he had other disturbing traits that apparently were too disturbing to spell out.

So, does that sound like all fine and dandy reasons to have the guy not only sacked, but sacked on the spot? 

Of course it doesn't. 

There are no coincidences inside the Washington Beltway.  As has been widely publicized, Mr Walpin's due diligence uncovered something funky going in Sacramento.   Mayor Kevin Johnson, an Obama pal runs an outfit that got roughly $800,000 Federal funds, and Walpin issued a report alleging misuse of at least some of those funds.  Johnson was forced to repay about $400,000 as part of a settlement struck with the Board of CNCS, a settlement for which Walpin in turn criticized the board too.  A double whammy.  Not only did he bag an Obama supporter, but he pissed off everybody up the chain by doing so.  That's what an IG is supposed to do - hold people to account.  He did, and the people he pissed off reached out to Obama, and got Walpin fired for it.

From a business as usual standpoint, we doubt anyone is particularly surprised that a Bush Admin hold-over would get canned by Obama on a whim.  However, the problem here is that this sort of stuff is precisely what Obama the candidate claimed he would not do.  Obama lied, as we knew at the time he was lying.  And we were right.  The hard left wingers in this country were going to vote for Obama under almost any circumstances, but it was the center-right that put Obama in office, and ostensibly because they wanted the "change" Obama promised.  What they got instead was a President who has repeatedly demonstrated a certain measure of contempt for the constraints of the law.  That's what the center-right voted into office.

Where was Obama's outrage that pal Kevin Johnson misused at least $400,000 of taxpayer money?  There was none.  There was only outrage that somebody caught him, and made him pay it back.

The firing of Mr. Walpin is inherently corrupt.  For Obama to reach into the process and fire an inspector general under such a pathetically weak pretense sends an unmistakable chilling message to all the other Inspectors in government.   It also signals to all the FOB's (Friends of Barack) that they can screw the American taxpayer for all they can get away with, because an IG won't take them to task for fear of retribution/dismissal.   Think about that.  Think about the President of the United States shooting the messenger and letting the offender walk-away without so much as a finger-wagging. 

Think about this 'changeling' President at the epicenter of a totally corrupt act. 

Think about that.

Three and a half years to go.......