Well Now.....

Well, well, well.....

WASHINGTON – 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 finding misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group led by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star.

Now half of me is curious as to how the people who called for President Bush's impeachment for doing the same thing are going to react to this, the other half of me realizes that I already know what the response will be.....stone, dead, graveyard silence.

And before you all cry "but wait you defended Bush when HE did it" let me just remind you that there is a little bit of difference between the two situations. These cases no where NEAR identical....when President Bush fired the AG's a few years back he fired a large number of them and NONE of the fired AG's were investigating supporters of the then President. While the larger point that the IG and the AG's before him serve at the pleasure of the President remains, when the President fires an IG or AG when he is in the middle of an investigation that just HAPPENS to center around a support of said President, you know a few eyebrows SHOULD be raised in the media - and you expect it in the blogosphere.

That said, I have no doubts that the left will remain deadly silent on an issue that had them HOWLING with indignation a short two years ago. Which again shows exactly where their priciples (and their priorities) really are...