Politicizing inspectors general, sending millions of taxpayer dollars to cronies, doing the bidding of big contributors. I thought these were things we’d never see again after the “culture of corruption” of the Bush years. Yeah, right (emphasis added):
President Barack Obama says he has lost confidence in the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs and has told Congress he is removing him from the position.
Obama’s move follows an investigation by IG Gerald Walpin of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star, into the misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group that Johnson headed…
