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Gerald Walpin, the former Americorps Inspector General who alleges he was fired unfairly, might not help his case with this:
“I would never say President Obama doesn’t have the capacity to continue to serve because of his (statement) that there are 56 states,” Walpin said, adding that the same holds for Vice President Biden and his [...]

Byron York, the Washington Examiner’s political correspondent, is coming off a few slow weeks by relentlessly hammering the White House over the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin, who had been looking into Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Today, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) asked for more details on the firing (which no one argues was [...]

In California GOP circles, it just keeps getting worse.
Yesterday, news broke that the Sacramento County Republican Party website was encouraging readers to “waterboard Barack Obama” and comparing him to Osama bin Laden.
Today, we move from inappropriate to racist.

The Sacramento County Republican Party just took down inflammatory material from its website that urged readers to “waterboard Barack Obama” and stated that “the difference between Obama and Osama is BS.”
Admittedly, among the many vile and incendiary charges leveled against Obama, this latter one was at least moderately clever. But California GOP leaders, among them [...]