House Reform Committee Wants to Review the Records on Fired Inspector General

Maybe there is a chance that President Obama is not going to get away with firing Gerald Walpin after all. With the fired inspector general asking for a congressional hearing into his firing, and this Republican representative asking for the records of all of the conversations relating to Gerald Walpin between President Obama and the U.S. attorney whose district Walpin worked in perhaps something will happen after all.

Representative Darrell Issa wants all of the records released of the conversations Obama had before firing Gerald Walpin and Issa just happens to be the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Here is what he had to say about the “political courage” that Obama was reported to have shown while firing Gerald Walpin for uncovering abuse of taxpayer money:

“Gerald Walpin led an aggressive investigation of a political ally of President Obama that successfully recovered taxpayer dollars,” Issa said in a statement. “While firing an investigator who uncovered the abuse of funds by a political ally might be considered an act of ‘political courage’ in Chicago politics, for most Americans it raises troubling questions”

It most certainly does raise troubling questions. Is President Obama going to fire any government watchdog who uncovers fraud and waste by an organization with which he is aligned and considers a political ally? This is the change we can believe in?

The president broke the law that he was a co-sponsor of as a senator by firing Walpin without proper notice and I believe that he has angered congress, some Democrats included, by being so arrogant that he didn’t think he needed to give them the reason for the firing even though the law requires it. I don’t think that this is sitting well in congress, perhaps there will be action taken. Maybe his arrogance has finally caught up with him.

With Representative Issa asking for the conversation records from this incident it could put President Obama in a tight situation. If he refuses to release the records after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee it is going to look like he is hiding something.

Action needs to be taken, we need to know that nothing improper happened in the firing of Gerald Walpin. We deserve to know if the president’s policy will be to remove anyone who uncovers government waste and fraud. This man should have received a promotion but instead he was fired for uncovering what was an embarrassing stain on an ally of the president. We can not stand for this.