Ex Post Facto White House Docs Dump

23Nov/093

Ex Post Facto White House Docs Dump

reveals ex post facto creation of rationale for IG Walpin termination:

Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents on the affair. It was a twist on the now-familiar White House late-Friday release of bad news; this time, the new evidence was put out not only at the start of a weekend but also hours too late for inclusion in the report.

The new documents support the Republican investigators' conclusion that the White House's explanation for Walpin's dismissal -- that it came after the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, unanimously decided that Walpin must go -- was in fact a public story cobbled together after Walpin was fired, not before.

Transparency! Post-partisanship! Post-racialism!

Meanwhile, Warner Todd Huston on unions blackmailing their members into compliance.

Hey, look: a San Diego ACORN documents dump.

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Joe
November 23rd, 2009 - 10:32

In the double standards department:

“The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle.”

Let’s get Professor Barack Obama to correct Sarah Palin’s poor writing… I mean he was editor of Harvard Law Review, so he knows how to write well. The Slate commentators let loose on the Palin.

Oh wait, that badly written line above was actually written by Barack Obama*!

* In President Obama’s defense he did release a statement that the line in question was acutally Bill Ayers’.

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Bob Reed
November 23rd, 2009 - 11:19

This is a new high in lows, and represents the desperation of the administration to conduct damage control on this issue. Just as with the Hunduran debacle, they stuck to their initial knee jerk reaction, ‘cuz, you know, Obama’s too Brilliant! to ever have been wrong, and frantically reached for whatever they could to support that initial reaction…

Well now, the chickens are coming home to roost; let’s just hope that this gets wider play than it has…

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Joe
November 23rd, 2009 - 17:02

http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/11/sheer-evil-genius.html?showComment=1259015338353#c4069314277367482540

One of the best Sullivan comments evah…

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