Oh dear -- we could be finding out that Michelle Obama is right in the thick of things, going after independent officials who cross Obama supporters.

In an email and fax sent late Friday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, demanded that Alan D. Solomont, the chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, provide "any and all records, email, memoranda, documents, communications, or other information, whether in draft or final form" related to President Obama's firing of CNCS Inspector General Gerald Walpin.

Walpin had investigated Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's community service organization, St. HOPE Academy, which confessed to misusing AmeriCORPS grants. In April of this year, St. HOPE Academy agreed to pay a $423,836.50 settlement -- $72,836.50 of which would be paid personally by Mayor Johnson.

Interestingly enough, the OIG was left out of the settlement process -- which resulted in the recovery of less than half of the misused taxpayer money. But now a close aide to Mrs. Obama is moving into a senior policy making position within the agency -- and reports indicate that Mrs. Obama was deeply involved with the decision to remove Walpin.

I wonder -- how long until a "pretty in pink" press conference?