Posted on 02/03/2009 3:33:01 AM PST by suspects
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.
Try to imagine Bill Clinton or George Bush getting away with picking a Treasury secretary who didn’t pay his own taxes and then accepted reimbursement for taxes he didn’t pay.
But to follow up one tax cheat with a nominee who skipped on $140,000 in taxes - particularly a former Senate majority leader who wrote the same tax laws he now claims he doesn’t understand - is unimaginable.
Obama pledged there would be “no lobbyists” in his administration. But Daschle earned millions working for lobbying firms like Alston & Bird, and specifically received $220,000 from health-care companies. He “forgot” to report $83,000 in income entirely. Now Daschle’s the “Hope and Change” pick to oversee the health-care industry?
Why not? Sen. Richard Durbin...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Our government is so corrupt, so fat and laughing and decadent, that it has become a royal circus and a maggot farm.
Since he didn’t pay taxes, he had plenty of money to donate to Dem. causes:
http://newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=DC&last=Daschle&first=Tom
Obama also backed known tax cheat and illegal alien employer Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg for Hillary’s Senate seat.
Why would Democrats pay taxes when they spend other people’s money?
A criminal fascist syndicate is replacing our democratic republic. Government and laws no longer exist. The law will be what the criminals in Washington say the law will be. Anarchy is here. Soon, the law will be that of the jungle and the streets, its enforcement determined by who shoots the straightest and fastest. Get ready.
I was watching ABC, I believe, local news this morning and they ran a national segment about Daschle’s tax problems. At the point where you would expect a video of Daschle they ran one of Mitch McConnell appearing to give an apology. Is he involved in something or was he reading a statement for some reason ... looked like they were doing a little smear?
They steal everything including your freedom, your money, your life.
The media will not report on this until they can find more Republicans to smear in order to present
“a balanced report”.
If you know any self-claiming “Christian” liberals,
ask them which of the 5th through 10th commandments their ideology doesn’t revel in breaking.
John Wayne(Walking the Floor Over You) Gacy could have a place in this cabinet.
Too true!
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