Geithner, “tax goofs,” and the go-along GOP
Looks like our GOP friends are gonna roll!
My column carries the ball forward on the Tim Geithner debacle. Two debacles, really: 1) The serial tax-dodging, ridiculous excuses, and bailout failure of Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary nominee; and 2) Geithner’s go-along apologists in the Senate GOP. Underscoring the theme of my column today? Read this headline: Key sen. sees no Republican opposition to Geithner.
The confirmation hearing was pushed back until next Wednesday. You have time to make your views known. Contact Mitch McConnell’s office via Twitter here or by phone: 202-224-2541.
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A government of the goofs, by the goofs, for the goofs
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
There’s an old saying from the bowels of the Beltway bureaucracy: “Screw up, move up.” Rewarding failure is an immutable trait of the bipartisan Washington political culture. Just ask Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner and the Senate Republicans who are blindly standing by him.
The Senate Finance Committee revealed this week that Geithner failed to pay some $43,000 in federal self-employment taxes for four separate years – and only coughed up $26,000 of that debt when he was named Obama’s Treasury Secretary-designate in November. The brilliant and meticulous Geithner didn’t catch the lapses. The Internal Revenue Service and Team Obama’s vetters did.
Recall that Joe the Plumber, an average guy with no Ivy League degrees in business or finance, was crucified for his $1,182.98 Ohio tax lien (the state had sent a notification to a prior residence he had vacated). One might give a common man some leeway for making common mistakes. But Tim Geithner is no “common” man – and “$43,000 in unpaid taxes is a common occurrence” simply does not wash as a credible alibi. Supporters have dubbed Geithner “too big to fail.” Try “too smart to care.”
Geithner is a Dartmouth and Johns Hopkins-educated president of the New York Federal Reserve bank who, according to his extensive biography, has also “studied Japanese and Chinese, and has lived in East Africa, India, Thailand, China, and Japan.” Apparently, he has been too engrossed in his foreign language studies and too busy traveling abroad to pay attention to crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s of his household records. In addition to his failure to pay four years’ worth of federal taxes (you try getting away with that without getting thrown behind bars!), Geithner also illegally employed an immigrant maid for three months after her work authorization papers had expired.
But wait. That’s not all, folks Geithner’s employer at the time of his serial tax-dodging was the International Monetary Fund. The agency reimburses its employees for their self-employment taxes. The allowance was made to keep IMF and World Bank workers’ salaries on par with other foreign peers. IMF employees receive an Employee Tax Manual outlining their obligations. (Maybe if it were written in Japanese or Chinese, Geithner would have paid better attention?)
Employees also proactively file an Annual Tax Allowance Request promising to “pay the taxes for which I have received tax allowance payments.” The Senate Finance Committee released one of those forms signed by Geithner. A Senate source confirmed to National Review’s Byron York that Geithner pocketed the cash: “He was getting the money. He was being paid a tax allowance to pay him for tax payments that he should have made but had not.”
IRS employment application packets notify potential workers that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration vets all candidates and current employees “who have violated or are violating laws, rules, or regulations related to the performance of their duties.” President-elect Obama is standing by a nominee who would oversee the IRS, but might not even qualify for a lesser job at the agency. This is insanity.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs calls Geithner’s transgressions “honest mistakes.” Media outlets like the Associated Press have attempted to downplay his snubbing of the law as mere “tax goofs.” (When Democrats like Geithner, Al Franken, and Charlie Rangel fail to pay up what they legally owe, they’re just “goofs.” When you or I object to forking over more than what we’re already paying, Vice President Joe Biden calls us unpatriotic.)
Even more maddeningly, Senate Republicans Orrin Hatch and Lindsay Graham insist on defending Geithner as “very competent” and “the right guy.” Never mind Geithner’s atrocious role in fostering the spending binge of financial giant Citgroup and engineering the teetering company’s $52 billion federal bailout. Those who take his tax evasion and record of failure seriously are guilty of “think[ing] in small political terms,” Graham lectured.
Tell that to the millions of self-employed entrepreneurs across the country who sweat bullets paying their quarterlys and ensuring that their papers are in order down to the hundredth decimal place. It’s fecklessness like this that has earned Washington Republicans “the Stupid Party” moniker.
Screw up, move up: It’s the Washington way.
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I use to like Charles Krauthamer, but I am getting leary of his own feeble attempts to praise Obama. Now he is justifying this outlandish appointment of Geithner. He says that it is just a trivial mistake. Trivial? How about all of us skipping paying our taxes over the next four years? I feel like Alice in Wonderland. The world has turned upside down.
These “trivial mistakes” are automatic disqualifications for anyone on the cabinet, much less Secretary of the Treasury.
Michele needs to rethink her opinions about a conspiracy, and obviously guys like Krauthammer are in on it.
I’m impressed. Most administrations at least wait a few years before having their first major scandal. Obama hasn’t even been coronated yet and he’s collecting them like trophies!!
With regards to the Republican Party – when they didn’t even try to defend themselves in 2006, I knew it was pretty much all over for them. 2008 was more of the same, and I don’t see that anything will change in 2010. I guess the Republican leadership likes to be in the minority because it means they never have to actually do anything.
It takes a willing suspension of disbelief to think that Geithner wasn’t aware that he had to pay his Federal taxes. Even more galling is that these Washington idiots think that we peons are stupid and will buy into the excuses offered in Geithner’s defense.
Republican leadership is an oxymoron.
Didn’t Joe Biden say that not paying taxes was unpatriotic?
That was then. This is now.
Considering the questionable activities of so many of BO’s cabinet selections, he could start a new trend by pardoning his pals at the beginning of his presidency, rather than waiting until the last day.
He meant for us peasants, not the aristocracy.
Peasant 1: “How do you know he’s the king?”
Peasant 2: “He hasn’t got sh** all over him.”
Then it is our responsibility to revolt.
“Mr. Sulzberger, the peasants are revolting.”
“You said it. They stink on ice.”
You KNOW that if this was a GOP situation the Dems would be screaming all the way to the moon and back about this guy’s honesty and integrity.
And it wouldn’t be just a couple of Dems, they ALL would be in front of the camera. No matter the truth, the amount of ruckus raised alone would condemn him.
The Dems S.O.P. of leadership continues.
The GOP track record
of leadershipcontinues … sadly.We’re screwed.
Rules are for losers.
Where’s the outrage on the Left? I don’t mean this as a joke, but seriously.
One has to assume that this would be made political hay, speaking truth to power and all that, if it were a Republican. He would have been made out to be just another heartless banker who is stashing money while our kids are fighting battles and the poor are rummaging through garage cans for food.
Instead, we are all being told to MoveOn. Nothing to see here.
I’m reminded of the old souviet union when a ‘PARTY MEMBER’ in good standing could do anything they chose to do.
You have that right-we have been through several “routine” aduits and they are living nightmares. They are expensive, time consuming and disruptive of operations. We never complained, never filed on anyone and considered it part of doing business. And we were NEVER, EVER late with a tax payment of any kind- not income, payroll withholding, FICA, workman’s comp, unemployment, property or any other. And therefore I have NO sympathy, empathy or anything else but contempt for anyone excusing Tim Geithner’s “hic-up”.
More than once we had to with hold an ADDITIONAL 25% of an employee’s wage as a tax lien while he was in dispute with the IRS. That would be 25% of Gross. Hard times for hard men.
These weaklings and cowards in the House and Senate-GOP- are the enemies we need to concentrate on getting rid of now. The Obamanites are going to run right over us for awhile and there is little we can do about it. We will NEVER be able to stop the left until we get rid of the Quislings in the Party or perhaps leave the Party altogether.
Orrin Hatch, Lindsay Graham, Krauthammer, McCain and the rest of the cowards all have one thing in common with Tim Geithner: they are part of the IN and do not feel rules apply to them. They all talk of Law and Order- but only for the Great Unwashed. Unfortunately that is a disease that crosses ideology and partisan lines.
I wouldn’t say I am “outraged” but I do think this guy should be withdrawn.
And others have too. Check out (or not, I know this site is like poison to you) Kos’s diary entries on Geithner.
Many of them (and the comments) express skepticism that this is just a mistake.
Is there anyone at all BO associates with/chooses/admires that is not corrupt in some way? Anyone? Bueller?
No GOP opposition to Geithner? That’s just further evidence it: 1) has no spine and learned nothing from last election; 2) has more in common with the opposition across the aisle than with any conservatives; and 3) sees the primary goal as getting re-elected in perpetuity, just like its Democrat brethren.
4) is just another branch of the same political entity.
Or another branch of the same tree.
Or another tentacle on a very large squid -like bug eyed monster.
Has the Kos said “Screw him!” yet?
Back in the 80s when the IRS came gunning for the dealers’ tips, I got audited for 4 years of tax returns. The verdict? $11,000 in back taxes owed. I then had to meet with an agent with proof of my monthly expenses. The agent then declared what I needed month to month for necessities and gave me an allowance and the rest was to be confiscated by the IRS until the debt was paid.
I actually paid it off in a year, but only because I didn’t want my paycheck garnished. I didn’t trust them to stop when they were supposed to.
Now, this POS does this and it’s a “trivial mistake”? As I said before, SOS, different administration.
Yesterday DeMints office called looking for money. I said the R’s have completely abandoned the principles in the constitution and have adopted the “go along to get along” mode of operation. Please call back when these two errors have been corrected. Until then, I will hold onto my money. I then suggested the Senator could call me personally and we could discuss.
There’s just too much good political fodder for the GOP in having Geithner as a member of B Hussein Obama’s administration for the Republicans to block him.
I mean, just think of the reverse finger pointing, distractionary tactics and marginalization that the Republicans could use against the Obama administration in blocking their legislation.
I say, if Obama wants Geithner, let him have him: Because when Obama’s popularity tanks this summer, due to higher unemployment from increased taxes and spending, it’ll be to the GOP’s benefit for a lightning rod like Geithner to be charge of the Treasury.
Trivial mistakes…. like the mistakes Libby did?…. Bork?….. …… Allen?…….. they were deemed either jail able or not worthy!… This piece of crap treasury candidate should be challenged, tarred and feathered.
Sounds like they’re going to let Mr. Obama have his way with cabinet appointments so they won’t be viewed as hindering his ability to “govern”. Chalk it up to the honeymoon period. It had better not carry over to the coming SCOTUS openings.
DeMint is one of the good guys, though.
I’m a very success, loud mouthed, self employed conservative. I have had an audit every year for the past 25 years. They have never found anything wrong. Who ever is flagging my returns, I only hope the die before I do.
opps!
thetheyWell put and thrifty: thank you b-cat, thank you very much.
Per the Kos quick poll…..
Well there you go. And Im going to guess that the negative votes were from MM posters
Here’s a guy who can’t manage his own money, yet he’s still a “go” for our nation’s Treasury Secretary?
I guess Obama can do no wrong.
BlameAmericaLast – you have to remember that he is the ObamaMessiah. He is The One.
So A guy who can’t do his own taxes is going to be running the IRS.
HECKOFAJOB OBAMA!!!
while working in the military at Edwards AFB, I had several trustee prisoners working in my records room. Their convictions were for not paying their taxes some for as little as 2 years…hmmm…do I smell a double standard here…yep…oh and they had 18-24 month sentences….
Joe the plumber some $1100.00 in taxes owed and gets a lien put on him, This guy some $43,000.00 owed but where is the tax lien?
Double standard? You bet!
Got myself into this situation at one time and they didn’t waste anytime putting a lien on me.
I Don’t know what it is, exactly, that makes this guy so “qualified” for this position other than being a liberal, but I just find it hard to believe that in this entire country, someone else just as qualified, cannot be located. And, I might add, someone who has no tax issues.
I guess we can always look on the bright side, maybe if he doesn’t care about paying taxes, he won’t be so gung-ho about enforcement if we don’t pay ours.
I know, I know, but doesn’t hurt to try to find a bright side.
It seems like our fearless leaders have learned to largely ingnore their constituency. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be making excuses for one of their own elitist members (Geithner) while thumbing their noses at the masses, any one of whom would be facing possible criminal charges if they had done what Geithner did. Senators congresspersons, presidents, etc. have made it increasing difficult to effectively contact them (phone calls to talking heads and letters and e-mail messages that are answered with computer-generated form letters don’t count). How do we get through to these clueless, elistist, morons? Does anyone know if there is a GOP national office that can be contacted to deliver complaints about their complacency? And complaints about Orin Hatch and Graham?
Socky – I know DeMint is one of the good guys. It’s his associations – as in associated with the R’s.
When his office is calling on behalf of the R’s, it’s over the line. If his office had been calling on behalf of him, it would have been different.
Yep, the state of CA did this to me once, and when I finally clarified the situation (I didn’t owe anything), I nicely asked the state of CA to remove the lien notice off my credit report.
Nope. The guy absolutely refused to do so. When I asked why? He said because I took too long to clarify the situation and he could do nothing about it.
Amazing…I get a tax lien, clarify the situation with the state, owe nothing, yet still get screwed for 7 years.
Nice. Typical, power hungry, “I love to screw with people’s lives” mentality.
But don’t worry – apparently most Americans (chap too) want more government.
My company just yesterday resolved a gov’t idiocy. We got a contract, shipped the right stuff. They put it on quality hold. Turns out, the dimensions they measured to were inches but the drawing was metric. (We had made the parts correctly). Anyway, it only took 4 months to sort that out. We’re finally getting paid. But guess what, we still will have the quaility deficiency on our record.
Rules are for the unwashed peons, not the elitist snobs who make the rules. This is part of the theme of the book “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg, who argues that the true fascists are the left-wing liberals. Unfortunately, it appears that some conservatives are rolling over to this view as well. Senator “Bride-to-Nowhere” Stevens, Orin Hatch, Lindsey Graham, Charles Krauthamer, to name a few. Funny, most of the sheeple would bridle at the idea that America is fascist and becoming more and more fascist ever day with the rise of liberalism and so-called “democratic” control of our lifes and resources.
That sounds worst than the “Peter Principal”, where you rise to the level of your incompetence.
Fire them all, and start over.
conservativesRus I tried government contracts years ago. The profits we minimal and the headaches were maximum. I would charge three times what I charged the private sector for the same product, but made only one third the profits.
Your a brave man Rus.
HOPE! CHANGE!
Just words.
I can’t wait until Mexico collapses, just to see how THE ONE skillfully averts disaster. His rhetoric alone has healing powers.
Geithner was paid for his taxes.
Example:
$100,000 His Pay
$ 30,000 to pay for his taxes
Do you think he noticed the extra $30,000?
He is a tax cheater.
Any GOP Senator that votes for this guy should be run out of office.
If that should happen, TEH ONE will open wide the border gates to the flood of refugees, or “God’s Children”, as Juan McCainito would put it, escaping such a calamity.
Come to think of it, Juan would probably be on the border acting as TEH ONE’s personal bipartisan representative, and our very own national Wal-Mart greeter, so to speak, for all our new additional Democratic voters, er, residents.
Actually he has the right idea…
We should ALL stop paying taxes!!!
The Beltway bureaucracy has long been overdue for an enema.
From what I understand, the IRS and state tax collecting agencies love to go after self-employed entreprenuers and small businesses who have little time, money, or a bank of tax-savvy attorneys to defend them against the tyranny of the tax collectors.
The Peter Principal run amok! Can’t we just airlift a few tons of Kwell and douse D.C. and start over?
.” President-elect Obama is standing by a nominee who would oversee the IRS, but might not even qualify for a lesser job at the agency. This is insanity.
Same could be said for the one himself.
He couldn’t qualify for a position with the secret service to protect himself as POTUS.
That’s Vichy Republicans, Michelle.
Vichy Republicans.
I called McConnell’s office, and was told he had no “statement” on the tax dodger, but they were taking “remarks”! That was when I said we are sick and tired of all GOP reps sitting on their hands and acting like they are spineless weasels!!
Wouldn’t the Government, peace be upon it, force the border patrol to be the Wal-Mart greeter for the hordes coming from down south?
And, yes, Government (big G) is our new savior, so the pbui is warranted.
I don’t think IRS will cut me any slack if I mess up on my taxes.
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Geithner didn’t notice a $30k increase in his pay? Pleezee–I notice a $20 error in my finances every month when I review my checkbook. However, I’m just an engineer (aka peon)–not a financial expert (aka tax cheating prince) like he is.
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The liberals will excuse and approve any wrong behavior by their fellow libs. Check out Hillary Clinton’s conflicts of interest–tens of millions of dollars of foreign government contributions to “B.J.” Clinton. No problems here!
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The only time the libs see something wrong is when it is a conservative. Larry Craig (R) gets trashed for “toe tapping” in the stall–Barney Frank (D) gets a pass on a gay prostitution ring being run by a lover in his house!
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Don’t do as I do–do as I say–suckers!
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John Bibb
Time for a rant.
Remember Robert Bork? Ted Kennedy, the DWI Killer, said he’d bring back segregated lunch counters to the South, and he got rejected by the Senate, forcing Reagan to nominate Anthony Kennedy, he of no particular judicial philosophy, that votes with Ruth Bader Ginsburg about half the time.
Speaking of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, shoe on the other foot, now Republicans control the Senate. She is more ideologically left than Bork was right. She was the chief abortion rights litigator for the ACLU, a known communist front organization. She sails through like 96-2 or something.
Republicans control the Congress, Dems fight everything, kicking and screaming. Using every arcane rule of procedure, especially in the Senate, the last decade, to stop bills, and especially derail court appointments. The threat of a filibuster, never an actual filibuster, is enough to stop consideration of candidates.
When the Dems run the Congress, they get what they want, and the Republicans follow Marquis of Queensbury rules while the Democrats bring knives and bats to the fight. When the GOP ran the Congress, they forgot about how badly they and their nominees were treated by the Dems.
Bader-Ginsburg should have been borked, and she wasn’t. If by some miracle the GOP regains the Senate in 2010, Obama could probably nominate Bernadine Dohrn to the federal bench, and the Republicans would give her an up or down full Senate vote.
Sickening.
Didn’t WE just send millions of $$$ to them to fight drugs on THEIR southern border?
Wonder where the $$$ actually went?
Hey, rocketman,
How could expect someone to know there’s a homosexual prostitution ring being run in the basement of their home? He’s just a congressman.
I suppose you’d always know when a bunch of men were performing sodomy on each other in your house?
Like I said, rules are for losers and right now the GOP doesn’t even have a copy of the rule book based of their recent posturings.
The now departed Jerry Studds (D-Massachusetts) was actually caught in the act of being a HHP*, with a 16 year old Congressional page, turned his back on Tip O’Neill when a non-binding censure resolution was read, accusing the House of homophobia, and was re-elected to eight more terms in the House.
Compare and contrast to the Republican SBBP*, who just sent suggestive e-mails to 16 year old boys.
*Colorful acronyms for rump rangers…
Ummm, you havent been tracking the stock market index for cut vs non-stepped-on street cost of coke this month? It dropped massively and is now a value buy proposition.
You might want to act now before all of the felons (that the states are about to release) buy up the excess surplus that is flooding the market.
Waterboyz,
Didn’t sending all of your tax dollars to Mexicans who could slit your throat and get away with it make you feel more patriotic?
Didn’t it make you FEEL BETTER to know you were helping disenfranchised minorities?
But of course. Juan will need assistance in dispensing TEH ONE’s “welcome wagon” gifts and information packets containing valuable information about all the benefits to which our new neighbors will be entitled.
Also the border patrol would need to make sure our new neighbors aren’t harassed by the Minutement and other misguided citizens.
I think we are already there as a country.
Hey, hawkeye,
Jokes on them…we won’t have the money to fund the welfare state after a while. No more free rides.
Wouldn’t it be great if all the people that work and kept their guns clean started hunting the freeloaders for their meat?
Imagine how soft and tender they would be, having never put in a hard day’s work and all.
I am in the process of purchasing a new home and I was doing a new loan pre-approval last week. (I already had a successful pre-approval last summer that I let lapse)
During the credit check, they found a $25 oustanding bill from 2003 that only showed up on only one credit reporting companies listing and the bank refused to approve me because it dropped my credit score by almost 90 points. (fyi i know that because when I paid the $25, my score jumped that much)
Now note that I have no real debt other than a car loan and that the net cost of my new home will be cheaper than the month-to-month apartment I am leasing at the moment.
So basically, I was credit unworthy for a new home for the cost of less than what I paid for 4 cases of soft drinks at Wal-Mart yesterday.
I have a tax accountant too, but this guys going to become the Treasury Secretary when he cant even get his own finances straight.
Ugh! I’d immagine them to be too fatty and poor in quality as their diet as a rule is less than desirable.
Anyway, as a non-hunter, I’ll stick with the traditional beef, pork and poulty thank you very much.
That is until were forced to consume Soylent Green as a result of TEH ONE’s policies.: )
Soylent Green is…is…illegals!
And, it’s delicious! Spicy!
A guy like Tim Geithner, who thinks nothing of evading payment of his taxes, probably has other dirt that, with any luck, will turn up eventually. There’s probably some prostitute somewhere that’s serviced him that will hopefully come forward.
Doesn’t matter. He’s a Democrat, which means he’s absolved of anything short of murder (conviction only), or having been discovered to have contributed to Prop 8 in California.
PRO Prop 8, that is.
This is not a test of the Republican party in the Senate.
This is a test of the Democrats.
Can the Democrats in the Senate stand up for the rule of law, or does the tax law not apply to democrat members of the government.
I did my part earlier today. I contacted both of our GOP Senators and made it very clear WHO elected them and WHAT is expected of them in the Geithner Senate confirmation process. Not just because Tim is a crook, but because the rebuilding of the GOP begins now. If our Senate represenatives can’t establish the difference between GOP and Democrat politics, we don’t need them..
You answer to part 1 is no, unless applied to a Republican nominee, and to part 2, emphatically, no, at least to high ranking memebers.
Can anyone blame the G man from avoiding paying his taxes? We are a society who is not taxed enough! Why, just look at this small list of “investments” we are TOLD to pay….
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline At x (44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax=2 0
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal,
State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
…oh, and you can be sure there are more to come! Is this the ultimate Pay to Play scheme?
Laws dont apply to democrats
What should be disheartening to even the Democrats is that this tax dodger was nominated!
*I thought it possible the GOP was operating a stealth campaign to rubber stamp all PEBO nominees so that the house of cards would surely fall over time, but with PEBO bum boy Lindsey Grahamnesty leading the charge, I think not.
*The House will be all Pelosi, all the time, but in the Senate, you will see a Gang of RINO’s emerge, led by McCain and Grahamnesty; You will see them rarely supportive of conservative initiatives, and will for the most part do what they do, toss the constitution aside and betray the American people.
*At that point in time, and it will be easily evident this year, the GOP and the RNC will have one final chance to decide on their future viability; If they go the McCain/Grahamnesty route, they are toast, and members such as DeMint, Coburn, Sessions, Inhofe, etc. will be looking for a place to go; I suggest the “Founders Party”, and if they can be led by someone like DeMint, I’ll have some money for them.
There is nothing any of us can do about these incompetents. The vote is faudulent beyond anyones imagination.
Normal God fearing, God believing persons of this country might as well get used to the new political oligarchy. Without fair and balanced news this country is destined to failure.
Anyone think that FOX is fair and balanced still? They report what they want so you can decide, not on what we really want to decide on….Obama’s citizenship, illegal immigration, joblessness(illegal immigration), jobs gone overseas, fake global warming…..
Agreeing with others that our so-called conservative critters are doing what they want, talking down to their constituents like they’re idiots, supporting causes alien to their own base, and simply cannot imagine our not voting for them come election time.
My wallet is closed to anyone running for reelection that doesn’t show/prove they have some kind of spine in the next two years. The national committee can pound sand as well. They are gutless and betrayed all of us.
Charles Grassly – another RINO puke. Any wonder the GOP has no balls anymore?
Drassly, Spector, Graham, and on and on.
Well written. I bet inside the beltway they really hate reading the true truth.
Does Geithner live in a castle with slaves? With this type of attitude, I would guess he does.
Day by day, the inside the beltway elite become closer and closer to the nobility in Europe.
We fought a war in the 18th century to rid us of kings, princes, dukes, earls, and the like. 21st century US politicians are making it fashionable again for the political class to lord over us peasants who, after all, are guilty of thinking in small political terms. Lindsay is just sure we couldn’t possibly understand.
There isn’t one of them in DC that I would bother to pi$$ on if they were on fire. The few that are OK today will catch the disease by next week.
Remember way back when we had laws that applied to everyone? It was cool…
I am having a hard time getting used to this “serf-thing.” I liked being a free man much better. Oh, for the good old days.
So we have a tax cheat as head of the IRS. Remember when Clinton used the IRS as a weapon? Get ready. Beginings of a corrupt administration.
My kind does not have anywhere to go if they are caught poaching the kings deer again.
I have told everyone that droping the deer, hogs, or chickens an individual can run much faster.
Compromise=Go along to get along.
Some Democrats are now questioning the Queen Bee about her rushing through legislation without their ability to actually legislate…translation: Queen Nan is running this country, so you can either jump aboard this runaway train, or get out of the way. Try to object at your own peril…
“with civility, bi-partisanship, blah, blah, bleech!”
I checked on Turbo Tax and it did not offer a ‘opt out of taxes’ option.
What the hell?
Havoc : You must have the conservative version.
I have a small C Corp. I file 32 different tax reports every year. Miss one and they will notice.
On a personal note. Twenty five years ago I was audited because the IRS somehow noticed a $40 deposit that I was not even aware of that my late wife had deposited in our joint account and was not reported as income.
After a several month audit of that year and the previous and following years, turns out it was a non-taxable check from my wife’s mother reimbursing her for purchasing Christmas gifts.
The IRS did not find anything wrong in any of the three years returns. In fact, I got a $900 refund. The bad news is I apparently landed on some watch list and have been audited every three years since before the statute of limitations expires on the oldest unaudited return.
I have never had to pay any tax, penalty or interest but I guess they will keep trying until they get that $900 back.
Current crop of RINOs in the congress are a herd of deers caught staring at the headlights of an coming vehicle.
Since no new Republican has been elected to congress this year, I can state that all of these bafoons are responsible for the runaway big government explosion under Bush Presidency.
Not much difference between these RINOs and Socialist Democrats.
My gut says that for the next eight years, the ranks of RINOs in the congress is going to steadily shrink.
Hussain Obama is lucky. He will be able to steer the country sharply to the left without much opposition.
Everyone is talking apples and oranges. He is a Dhimmocrap and the rest of us are conservatives. Dhimmocraps don’t have to follow the rules. The rest of us do.
Speaking of financial implosions, I noticed that Circuit City went bust. Hmm. I bought my laptop there about a year ago, and am still paying it off monthly.
I wonder if I’ll be excused from paying the rest of the amount owed? I also have a Circuit City Visa card. Wonder if that will be excused as well? Bail me OUT! Oh, yeah. Gimme some free gas too. And pay my rent, wouldja? Thanks.
Actually I think he has the “gainfully employed” version – or maybe the “non-government teat” version.
The two versions just mentioned certainly have that box.
You can judge a persons character by the company they keep. Obama must not know anyone who behaves ethically.
correction – the two version mentioned above do NOT have that box. The “complimentary” versions do have the box.
yea
A Criminal Conspiracy
Michelle, it couldn’t be said better. This guy is a creep.
We are very shortly going to be living under the auspices of the Greatest Criminal Conspiracy in world history. The gang of “conspirators” consist of the Obama Transition Team, his Cabinet appointees, background characters such as George Soros, and the bulk of our United States Congress.
This Cabal is aided and abetted by a totally corrupt court system and equally corrupt state and municipal Governments.
We The People have just demonstrated that we are incapable of governing ourselves. We have listened to the idiots in the media and from the maniacal left and voted for even more of the likes of Frank, Schumer , Murtha, Reid ,Pelosi, McCain (almost), Dodd, Biden, Obama, et. al.
If you think me harsh, first answer the question: where did over $8Trillion of American wealth go. Not only that but they are preparing to add $2Trillion or more to that figure. This totals together to approximately $33,000.00 per Man, woman, and Child in the United States.
This money is being stolen from the people and is being done against the express wishes of the people. They have repeatedly been against these “bailouts” when ever asked. No gang of crooks in history has ever come anywhere close to achieving this level of outright thievery.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
I am of course not implying by the following that anyone should fail to pay their taxes.
Possible letter to the IRS
To whom it may concern,
Please cease all withholding of Federal Income, Social Security, and Medicare Taxes from my pay effect immediately. I will also no longer report my income to you. I will be happy to resume our normal relationship (as well as pay all back taxes) as soon as the President of the United States appoints me as a member of his cabinet. I would especially like to be Secretary of (indicate your preferred department here).
Thank you,
(Your Name Here)
This guy couldn’t get a lower interest loan from his own bank. God I love that bunch in Washington.
As tax errors go this one actually was understandable. He got a W-2 from which no employment taxes were withheld. He had to pay not only his share (which as I understand it he did) but also the employer’s share. It’s a unique situation in the tax code… Basically, even though he got a W-2, he should have treated it as a 1099 and filed a Schedule C. TurboTax doesn’t warn you about this. Accountants Geithner hired missed this twice.
The real problem is that when his error was caught by the IRS, he didn’t voluntarily go back and fix all the previous years’ returns, with interest. This failure to make a good faith effort to clear it up as soon as the problem emerged is what disqualifies Geithner from the job at Treasury.
The really real problem is that the business of Congress is selling favors under the tax code, and this has created a 65,000 page monstrosity that no one understands and that makes any kind of planning or sensible economic activity impossible. It will only gets worse.
Hey hey hey! What’s the big surprise or problem here? Just Chicago politics as usual. Get used to this kind of thing folks. We’re in for four years or so of just this kind of crap.