While reviewing my vast RSS feeds from stories relating to the firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin, I found two interesting and amusing articles. The first one is from Yael T. Abouhalkah, from the Kansas City Star. Yael is SO proud of Sen. Claire McCaskill for standing up to her political idol, he delares in the headline, “She’s no lapdog“:
Go, Claire, go.Missouri’s sharp-tongued senator is at it again. Claire McCaskill has criticized President Barack Obama for removing Gerald Walpin as Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service.
…if this becomes a long-running D.C. drama, don’t expect to see McCaskill back down from a fight — even when the Obama administration is on the other side.
That’s our tough little Claire, standing tall against the president she helped elect. What a trooper!
However…
One day after criticizing the Obama administration for mishandling the firing of an inspector general, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said Wednesday that the matter had been satisfactorily resolved.
CLAIRE! HEEL! BAD LACKEY! BAD! LACKEY!
Sen. McCaskill says it’s all good since the Obama Administration said IG Walprin was so “confused” and “disoriented” that there was reason to question “his capacity to serve.”
Here’s Walprin’s repsonse to that on Glenn Back:
Ed Morrissey asks the questions Sen. McCaskill didn’t ask:
Now, if the White House thought that Walpin was somehow incapacitated or disoriented, why bother to make that call at all? In fact, wouldn’t an employer with an ounce of empathy send the employee to a physician for diagnosis first? Even without the empathy, the proper course would have been to address the issue with Congress first instead of making an intimidation attempt to someone the White House now paints as all but senile.
Sen. McCaskill won’t ask these questions because she is a lapdog. She’s like those little yappy dogs that sit on comfortable laps and growl and snap, putting on a good show of looking tough…until they get scolded for all that racket.
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