Posted on 02/03/2009 12:56:57 AM PST by xtinct
First Tim Geithner. Now Tom Daschle? Who’s Obama’s next cabinet pick - Wesley Snipes? Dianne Wilkerson?
Not to upset the loyal O-Bots out there, but the last guy from Chicago to have this much income tax trouble was Al Capone. And at last report, he still had an outside shot at getting Commerce secretary.
President Obama pledged to change Washington, and he has. Before Obama, tax cheats used to lose jobs.
Conservative academic Victor Davis Hanson calls the choice of Daschle the “Rezkozation” of the Obama administration. Tony Rezko, you may recall, was the bagman who bankrolled part of Obama’s political career. He’s also a felon.
Amazingly enough, therefore, he hasn’t been tapped to serve in the Obama administration. Yet.
Hanson also points out that Daschle is a “threefer”: a tax cheat, a $5 million-dollar lobbyist (Daschle called himself a “strategist”) and a populist hypocrite to boot.
To paraphrase Dean Wormer from “Animal House,” “Inept, corrupt and elitist is no way to go through life, Tom.” But it’s a great way to get a job from Barack Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Obambi and company are shady beyond belief.
That POS Daschle ought to be in prison. That he is a Democrat is the only reason he’s not.
Is there no way to stop this?
How is it that politicians go to Washing as moderately wealthly individuals and retire as multi-multi millionaires?
This must stop or we should start shooting!!!
yitbos
He’s apparently paying interest but no penalties. You and I would pay heavy penalties.
I'm so pissed I could eat nails!!!
It is possible to negotiate with the IRS. And who is in charge of the IRS? Another tax cheat, Sec. Tres. Goebels.
yitbos
This might stop when .....say.... 10 million of us start raising hell in our familys, neigborhoods, PTA meetings, city council meetings, and pretty much anywhere more than 2 people are gathered.. If (( YOU )) are a coward it will continue
Corruption is now completely normal and routine and liberty is being swept away by the hour.
We are now a nation of men, not of laws, and we, the people, will ultimately be forced to deal mercilessly with this corrupt dictatorship in a very extreme way.
We see Mexico is now a failed nation and we are not far behind it.
Beck is great. Beck has the ability to say what the “average Joe” is thinking. Not many commentators on TV (even the conservative ones) will do that.
The media constantly ignores Democratic transgressions while exaggerating republican ones. Same old same old.
Exactly. Grumbling to the choir is not going to fix anything. We need to step outside and holler. A march on Washington would be better, but at least, we have to take it outside.
And we're supposed to overlook their innocent mistakes while Joe Blow in the same situation gets the book thrown at him?
I'm beyond angry - I'm ready to march!
Term limits would help. All politicians must be monitored. I suggest no more than two terms.
NO!!! Just look at California to understand why term limits won’t help. Career politicians don’t cease to exist, they simply make their way through multiple offices wreaking the same kind of havoc in different parts of the government, and turn their seats into mini fiefdoms handed off to the next up-and-coming term-limited crony.
Term limits and gerrymandering go hand in hand, and if you don’t have a citizen initiative process, you have no hope of stopping the latter if you impose the former.
“i’m beyond angry,i’m ready to march.”
look around you. the people whom they represent are right there. (but, then again there’s alway acorn which registers dead and/or non-existent voters.)
IMHO
I say let him have more. In fact, I’m cheering him on.
He entered office with some very high public expectations regarding what he’s supposed to accomplish. He won’t be able to accomplish a single thing with his inept cabinet focused entirely on themselves and what started out as the Bush recession will quickly become the Obama depression. Unless he gets people in there who are honestly there to implement real solutions to this country’s problems in haste, he will fail.
Maybe then we can get out of this mess. It’s just too bad we have to go through the reincarnation of Carter to get there.
Perhaps that explains why the demonrats have an unstopable need to throw large chunks om money at loser businesses.
Hey, maybe it's cabinet senority based upon the value of taxes that were "innocently" "forgotten."
-OR- NOT... many are watching..
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