Monday, March 2, 2009

Taxes just don't count for Obama

On March 2ed, while the north east is buried under at least a half foot of snow, Barrack Obama has yet another person in his nominees that has had tax paying problems. Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk failed to pay almost $10,000 in back taxes, on basketball tickets (that's a lot of games to see), of course this guy is supposed to be the TRADE representative nominee. Though this is the fifth time this has happened, the white house STILL wants this man to be in. This is after the problems of Geitner, Dachle, Nancy Killefer (for a token position), Hilda Solis (Secretary of Labor), and of course other non-tax-related problems. This man doesn't get it that paying taxes are 'patriotic' and that it's also something you want to keep clear in case

Let's compare the stumbling fool George Bush to President Obama. Bush's first term breed only one problem with his nominees. Bush's one problem was Linda Chavez, Nominee for Labor Secretary (now a columnist for Townhall.com), who 'employed' an illegal Guatemalan immigrant by giving her a house and money to live in. Quite unbefitting for a labor secretary. Of course low and behold Tom Dachle provided a lot of criticism calling it insane for a labor secretary to, knowingly or not, hire an illegal immigrant, though I still believe that what the record for everyone else during his first term.

In comparison, Bush's appointments were a nothing compared to what Obama's appointments have looked liked. Bill Richardson withdrew himself because he was honorable and stepped down when some vague connections to a federal investigation was shown. Judd Greg removed his name just because party lines didn't stretch that far left for him. And of course Hillary who, though technically not eligible nor was she without fault, through her husband's charity. And of course there are the big four (now five) who have had their tax problems. Geitner didn't pay almost $35,000 in self-employment taxes as he was being confirmed as treasury secretary. Tom Dachle, who was paid almost 16 million for listening to health care lobbyists, as well as some, failed back tax records. Hilda Solis who faced questions on her husband’s business taxes, as well as Nancy Killefer who withdrew over some vague tax issues.

Why do I bring this up? Well for one to point out that though bush was an idiot when it came to many things, at least he controlled himself when he tried to pick friends and enemies for his cabinet positions, making sure that his bill was clean as far as he could figure while Obama made mistakes that are beyond amateur and showed just how unprepared he was for this office.

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