Memo to Senator Grassley: Did you outcry in the IG firing of Louise S. Jordan by Bush Administration?

Sen. Grassley and the GOP will find it hard to claim political motivation for the firing of AmeriCorps IG Gerald Walpin by Obama when Bush Administration fired IG Louise S. Jordan. Besides, both Jordan and Walpin were IGs for the same organization: Corporation for National and Community Service.

The New Argument.com:

Louise S. Jordan served as the IG at the CNCS from 1994 until 2002, when she was “quietly forced out” by the Bush administration:

According to Louise S. Jordan, the IG at the Corporation for National and Community Service since 1994, she was summoned to a meeting with Ed Moy, an associate director in the presidential personnel office.

“I was told I had done a good job. I was complimented on the achievements of my office, but the second paragraph, after all these compliments and making it clear this was not a dismissal for cause, was that the corporation had decided to get a new IG,” Jordan recalled.

UPDATE:

I emailed Sen. Grassley’s Communications Director Jill Kozeny to find out if Grassley approved of the decision to remove Louise Jordan as the IG. She writes back:

The firing of Gerald Walpin is the first termination of any kind under the Inspector General Reform Act enacted in 2008, of which Senator Grassley was a cosponsor. The law is intended to try to better safeguard the independence of inspectors general. Senator Grassley’s questions this week are intended to safeguard the new law itself and, in turn, strengthen the ability of inspectors general to serve as watchdogs over the federal bureaucracy.

The Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 requires the president to give Congress 30 days’ notice, plus an explanation of cause, in order to remove an IG.
But there’s a misconception at the heart of this ‘debate’ that I didn’t catch before. Obama did give 30 days notice. He suspended Walpin with pay and informed him that his termination would be effective 30 days later. Obama gave a thorough explanation as to why he was removing Walpin, which means that he met both requirements of the Inspector General Reform Act.

In other words, The Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 was established 6 years after the firing of Louise Jordan by Bush and one year after Obama took office. And now Sen. Grassley is now questioning Obama for his actions but said nothing of Bush's actions.