I try really really hard to avoid the term "Orwellian," but I
can't help it here: This is Orwellian word use on steroids to the
googleplex degree. Byron York
reports that the White House is calling the firing of
AmeriCorps IG Gerald Walpin an act of "political courage." When
thuggery is called courage, when corruption is called integrity,
when ignoring the spirit of the law is called judiciousness....
well, then, that's when this firing becomes defensible. This is a
sinister White House.
Just a note: How simple would it have been to give a nice
(non-pecuniary) inducement to entice Mr. Walpin into retirement,
considering that he almost retired on his own five months ago
anyway and had said he would reconsider his status at the end of
the month? Easy as winning a poker hand when being deal four
aces, that's how easy. But instead these thugs at the White House
fired the guy, without proper notice. What are they trying to
hide? Perhaps they fear he will stay on and be around to expose
the corruption when they try to send contracts through ACORN or
turn various grantees into a political army. That's what they are
surely trying to hide.
These people must, by all legal means, be stopped. Cold. They are
dangerous.
