Turning up heat on Democrat culture of corruption
The Democrats bloodied Republicans with the “culture of corruption” cudgel.
Republicans are finally performing some political jujitsu.
Keep repeating it and don’t give them a pass:
Action Demanded on Rangel/Geithner Tax Violations
(WASHINGTON, DC) — While Democrats continue their plan for a federal takeover of the nation’s healthcare industry, new revelations show they are incapable of effectively managing even their own members in the U.S. House of Representatives.
House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter (TX-31) and other GOP Members on Tuesday night demanded that the House take ethics action against the obvious double-standard IRS treatment of House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) and U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
Carter was joined on the House floor tonight by fellow U.S. Representatives Phil Gingrey (R-GA), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Lynn Westmoreland, M.D. (R-GA), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and Michael Burgess, M.D.(R-TX) in calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to take action to enforce House rules and the law.
New reports in August revealed Rangel’s previous tax evasion problems now under investigation by the Ethics Committee are just the tip of long-standing failures to report income to the IRS or under House disclosure rules, prompting calls for his resignation.
“The rule of law does and should prevail in this nation,” Carter said. “It’s the glue that holds this society together. And when we see people causing the glue to weaken, I think it’s our responsibility to step up and say, ‘This has to stop.’ We as a Congress should hold each other to those rules.”
Rangel recently reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed assets, including a checking account worth up to half-a-million dollars, stock in PepsiCo and mutual fund investments. Carter is calling for the Ethics Committee to step up and take action.
“We need to get behind the business of policing up this House,” he said. “The Ethics Committee should not be deadlocked along political lines but should resolve this issue. The American people are more and more distrusting of this Congress for reasons like this.”
Geithner testified in January that he failed to pay nearly $50,000 in taxes he blamed on a Turbo Tax glitch. Rangel and Geithner’s failure to pay taxes and a lack of penalty is an example of American citizens using their power to side step the law.
“People in power are getting special treatment over ordinary folks,” Carter said. “Ordinary people and people who have positions of influence should pay similar penalties. There should be no exceptions for the prince nor for the pauper.”
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Amen!
The people who want higher taxes and more government spending are the very people who don’t pay their own taxes and hide their extra income.
The 2010 elections are going to be all kinds of fun!
What! Rules don’t apply to “The Chosen Ones!” What are you thinking! Go back to digging in the muck, peons! These lofty matters don’t concern the likes of you!
Read Paglia…. and she’s a hardened Democrat. The ice dam has broken.
two unethical frauds and tax cheats, rangel should be playing patty cakes with bubba in some prison cell instead of stiffing taxpayers. and geitner should be in the cell next door.
Can’t wait to see 9/12, much more important than the “speech” tonight. I think this will be more of a lecture. He can’t help himself.
Failure to pay 10 bucks is a “glitch!”
Failure to pay 50 Grand is “tax evasion!”
Let’s get that straight right now!
Are your feet burning, Nancy?
I write the rules here. Do as I say, not as I do. Now go away peasants.
Pelosi and Obama…king and queen of a house of straw.
It’s such bull that Turbo Tax was the cause of his failure to pay. I’ve used Turbo Tax for years, and not only does it specifically ask for those taxes, but the prior-to-filing review would have flagged the omission.
He would have had to make a deliberate decision to ignore the omission and file anyhow.
WOW!!! Talk about letting them have it with both barrels. Did she ever.
Hey, he gave me a shout out! How kewl is that?!
If I was Intuit, I’d be fighting that badmouth publicity in court. Saying “Prove that gleeotch beeotch!”
On Pelosi’s “swamp draining” – it appears that while she fretted over the Republicans puddle, the Democrats had a tidal pool tucked away.
I can see no honest reason why Rangel should be allowed to keep his chairmanship in deciding our nation’s tax policy while – when faced with an audit/inquiry – his fits of clarity keep resulting in the conveniently forgotten ownership of high-end assets and outrageous amounts of cash, most of which were left off his own tax returns.
This paragraph from Camile Pagalia is REALLY something. I would think that Rush has got to comment on this.
These politicians on both sides produce nothing and yet become millionaires in the process. It’s all summed up in the “Tale of the Jets”. Like the puddle and the tidal pool analogy.
Paglia sees the “cesspool”.
It won’t matter…Democrats live by their own rules. Nothing will ever happen and Rangel (along with loser Pelosi and others) will easily get reelected back into office. Blame the low IQ morons who put them there in the first place.
That’s the least of Rangel’s problems.
Who is going to tell him about his hair?
I’m actually looking forward to the 2010 election cycle. It won’t make any difference here in the People’s Republic of Hawaii, but what will happen on the mainland promises to be exciting.
BTW, someone needs to tell Hannity he can’t do personal endorsements for General Motors and remain a leader of our cause.
I loved my ’67 Camaro, but I’ll never buy another one.
I have a dream. Its that one honorable Member of Congress, of either party, will stand and demand that President Obama be placed under oath before he gives testimony before congress tonight. And at the conclusion of his testimony he be afforded the opportunity to revise and extend his remarks by answering questions from the assembled members.
Now that would be fun to watch.
First question…Have you read any of the proposals, Mr. President?
Time for Pelosi to drain that swamp, and when she does, she should jump in and go down the drain too. This is getting REALLY interesting. Truth is powerful stuff!!
Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) were two of the Representatives who were there when I went to the “Texas Tea Party” protest on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in August 2008.
I had the pleasure of meeting them both, and they are “the real deal”.
It’s good to see a few good men and women who still have backbone to stand up for what’s right.
Read the comments afterward. She regularly criticizes Democrats in this manner and is shunned because she is one of the few sane voices in her party. Instead of refuting her or even considering the validity of her criticism they stick their heads in the sand and viciously attack her.
Liberals are bitter clingers and refuse to see the world the way it is. They prefer to destroy this country and themselves trying to impose their failed worldview on reality and are willing to take everybody else down with them in the process.
Glenn Beck not the Joker from Bataman depicted in Posters, Glenn Beck is the Riddler.
You know, ITookTheRedPill #085, your Reps may seem like the “real deal” but in this Congress, seems to me the Repubs don’t fight hard enough, yell loud enough, demand enough, of themselves and their peers. It all excused away with the term, “this is how the game is played in Washington.” If they are the real deal, they will NOT play games with our freedoms…they will yell, scream, fight, raise hell to protect our Constitution. Sorry, they all have to go…they just aren’t patriot enough for me.
Stones.
Glass houses.
Eye patch underwear.
Energy lobbyist mistresses.
If enough people follow your suggestion, the Rule of the Left will continue until the end of time.
Ranting is not the way to victory. It never is. Our Founders did not throw off English rule by ranting. It just makes you look stupid.
There are good people in Congress fighting to defend our Constitution. Help them. Don’t be a nut.
That includes Paglia. That is why she still clings to the Democrat Party.
Her thinking seems to give hope she is in a process whereby she comes to her senses, but I will believe it when I see it. Obama will just have to do one or two things that aren’t anti-liberty, and she will be singing his praises again.
Paglia is a “my body, my choice” fanatic who is wilfully blind to the “there is another PERSON there” argument. That will trump everything else when the rubber meets the road.
The Right’s loss of power has zero to do with “patriotism.” ZERO. If you fail on multiple fronts as legislators and create widespread distrust, you lose. This is what the conservative movement has to grapple with. Not the nonsense of fringe issues like Nickelodeon campaigns or ACORN or what someone might (not really) be wearing in a Dunkin Donuts ad. Conservatives endorsed and continue to endorse a failed and misguided war, a massive tax cut that cost twice as much as the current healthcare proposal, an insanely expensive prescription drug benefit, and made repeated excuses for their shoddy handling of any number of issues, be it Katrina or Iraq or Afghanistan or immigration or healthcare or Wall Street. You can only fail for so long before people want something else. This game of claiming to “represent real America” is the fastest way of representing none of America.
Wrong Roland. We, the people, do not do enough “ranting” and if calling out politicians for being anti-Constitution makes me sound “stupid” then so be it. We should be in the streets RANTING at the top of our lungs. If there are so many good people in Congress “fighting” to defend our Constitution, then why are so many of them criminals and why are we in the mess we’re in now? I’m not buying your argument.
What was that old saying? “The bigger they are…” – no, that’s not it.
Oh yeah! The Golden Rule: “He who has the gold makes the rules”.
Sure, an argument could be made that neoconservatism was more to blame.
I was not saying all or even most of the congresscritters are good people. There are some. Failing to recognize that reality plays into the hands of their enemies. The Constitutionalists in Congress need our help, not our blanket condemnation.
And ranting does not work. Ever. About anything. Good people who disagree with you just get angry right back at you, and sociopaths snicker at you behind your back … or to your face if they’re angling to get an even ‘better’ reaction from you.
SHOOTING is sometimes necessary.
Oops. Though true, I didn’t mean to include that in the post without further elaboration. Darned word processing.
Damn! She sounds like…well, ME!
Yup. That’s me!
Roland – we MUST preserve a representative government or we will lose the Republic. The only way we seem to be heard at all is “RANTING” at Town Halls and Tea Parties. I don’t give a rat’s patootie which of these Marxist sociopaths snicker at me to my face or behind my back. We have been silent waaaay to long and it has cost us dearly. Why do you think Congresscritters have adopted their elistist attitudes? Why are they enriched personally when the job doesn’t pay a million a year? Let’s get real here. What this country needs, IMHO, is lots of yelling and protesting by those ready to defend the Republic. Who gives a damn what their response is…and, yes, if we say and do nothing (as we have done in the past) it may come to shooting (hope not,) but I’m prepared to defend the Constitution. I have a CCP, and a fully loaded 9mm ready.
The “ranting” at the tea parties and town halls is not what broke through congresscritter awareness. It was the fact of and numbers at the tea parties, and the numbers objecting at the town halls.
Congresscritters care about votes. Whatever gets them more votes is what they want. The ranting didn’t lose them votes. In fact, it was played by the complicit media as a way to belittle our objections.
However, to be clear, I do not regard shouts of anger from a crowd that’s being dissed by someone who is supposed to be their SERVANT as “ranting.”
With all respect, it is not obvious that we currently enjoy “representative government.” It is also not clear that we still enjoy any of the benefits of a “republic.”
How do you “preserve” what you don’t currently have? Throwing ALL of them out is looking like the only option left if we want to regain representative and republican form of government. The GOP has proven it isn’t interested in conservative principles over the last 8 years.
The LoTE argument just doesn’t offer much promise any longer.
No reporting about the “numbers” of attendees at town halls and especially the Tea Parties was produced by the MSM. If anything, large numbers were denied by the press. The only reporting was about the angry “mobs” protesting health care at Town Halls. Your argument that numbers suddenly caused these clue-less politicians to pay attention is bogus. When you say that all politicians care about are votes–you are spot on. They don’t give a damn about the country, the people, the Constitution—my point exactly. ALL they care about is reelection at any price – usually ours!!Why not give them hell and often? If they were patriots, they would put the country before their own political careers. Shouts of anger is what these current politicians should expect to hear from us—we’ve been their quiet servant long enough!
WarEagle, our problem is that we have met the enemy, and he really IS ‘us,’ not that we no longer have a representative democracy.
These voters DO NOT WANT our Constitution. Really. Not when they see what it keeps them from stealing.
Very interesting to see Paglia use the word “apparatchiks” in describing the modern Democrat[ic Socialist] Party:
Victimhood! April 15th Tea Party attendance (all from “MSM” sources — CBS, the New York Post, the Des Moines Register, the New York Times, NBC, etc.):
Atlanta, GA* – 15,000
Denver, CO – 5,000
Phoenix, AZ – 5,000
Madison, WI – 5,000
Bossier City, LA – 5,000
San Antonio, TX – 4,500
Olympia, WA – 4,500 (average of two estimates)
Lansing, MI – 4,500 (average of two estimates)
Jacksonville, FL – 4,500
Oklahoma City, OK – 4,500 (average of two estimates)
Dallas, TX – 4,000
Fort Myers, FL – 4,000
Fort Worth, TX – 3,750 (average of two estimates)
Indianapolis, IN – 3,625 (average of two estimates)
Vero Beach, FL – 3,500
Sacramento, CA – 3,500 (average of two estimates)
New York, NY* – 3,500 (average of two estimates)
Tulsa, OK – 3,200
Hartford, CT – 3,000
Sioux Falls, SD – 3,000
Cincinnati, OH – 3,000 (average of two estimates)
Richmond, VA – 3,000
Des Monies, IA* – 3,000
Naples, FL – 3,000 (two events)
Nashville, TN – 2,900
Annapolis, MD – 2,750 (average of two estimates)
Columbus, OH – 2,700
Bakersfield, CA – 2,650 (two events)
Columbia, SC – 2,650 (average of two estimates)
Jackson, MS – 2,500
Boise, ID – 2,500
Canton, OH – 2,500
Boston, MA* – 2,500 (two events)
Charleston, SC – 2,500
Spokane, WA – 2,300
Havasu, AZ – 2,250
Chattanooga, TN – 2,000
St. Louis, MO – 2,000
Escondido, CA – 2,000 (two locations)
Stuart, FL – 2,000
Grand Junction, CO – 2,000
Colorado Springs, CO – 2,000
Pleasanton, CA – 2,000
Wheeling, WV – 2,000
Columbus, IN – 2,000
St. Paul, MN – 2,000
Houston, TX – 2,000
Huntsville, AL – 2,000
Des Monies, IA – 2,000 (average of two estimates)
Troy, MI – 2,000
Prescott, AZ – 2,000
Providence, RI – 2,000
Belton, TX – 2,000
Chicago, IL – 2,000
Carson City, NV – 2,000
Fort Lauderdale, FL – 1,750
Tucson, AZ – 1,750 (average of two estimates)
Augusta, GA – 1,700
Knoxville, TN – 1,700
Anchorage, AK – 1,500
Topeka, KS – 1,500
Cleveland, OH – 1,500
Charlotte, NC – 1,500
Charlottesville, VA – 1,500
Tallahassee, FL – 1,500
Tyler, TX – 1,500
Bellingham, WA – 1,500
Deland, FL – 1,500
Salt Lake City, UT – 1,500 (average of two estimates)
Salem, OR – 1,500 (average of two estimates)
Austin, TX – 1,250 (average of two estimates)
New Bern, NC – 1,200
Raleigh, NC – 1,200
Lynchburg, VA – 1,200
Bend, OR – 1,200
Seattle, WA – 1,100
Waco, TX – 1,100
Washington, DC – 1,000
Medina, OH – 1,000
Beaumount, TX – 1,000
Wilmington, DE – 1,000
Carmel Mountain Ranch, CA – 1,000
Temecula, CA – 1,000
Palm Springs, CA – 1,000
Hudsonville, MI – 1,000
Fort Collins, CO – 1,000
Kansas City, MO – 1,000
Marble Falls, TX – 1,000
Manchester, NH – 1,000
Baxter, AR – 1,000
Yuma, AZ – 1,000
Lisle, IL – 1,000
Plymouth, MI – 1,000
Mobile, AL – 1,000
Seal Beach, CA – 1,000
Oceanside, CA – 1,000
Ocala, FL – 1,000
Cullman, AL – 1,000
Memphis, TN – 1,000
Greensboro, NC 1,000
Albuquerque, NM – 1,000
New Haven, CT – 1,000
Montgomery, AL – 1,000
Natrona, WY – 1,000
Albany, NY – 1,000
Rapid City, SD – 1,000
Loveland, CO – 1,000
Ventura, CA – 1,000
Wichita, KS – 1,000
Portland, OR – 1,000
Gainesville, FL – 1,000
San Jose, CA – 1,000
Gilbert, AZ – 1,000
Louisville, KY – 1,000
Fresno, CA – 1,000
Joplin, MO – 1,000
Santa Ana, CA – 1,000
Baton Rouge, LA – 1,000
Denton, TX – 950
Winston-Salem, NC – 900
Wasilla, AK – 850
Astacadero, CA – 850
Abilene, TX – 800
Doral, FL – 800
Wichita Falls, TX – 800
Roseburg, OR – 750
Rochester, NY – 750
Fayetteville, AR – 700 (average of two estimates)
Virginia Beach, VA – 650
Pocatello, ID – 650 (average of two estimates)
Longview, TX – 650
Farmington, NM – 600
Hyannis, MA – 600
Cedar Rapids, IA – 600
Houma, LA – 600 (two events)
Augusta, ME – 600
Morristown, NJ – 600 (average of three estimates)
Duluth, MN – 600 (average of two estimates)
Yakima, WA – 600
Tuscaloosa, AL – 600
Concord, NH – 600
Monterey, CA – 600
Ashland, OH – 600
Matamoras, PA – 600
West Palm Beach, FL – 600
Charleston, WV – 550 (average of two estimates)
Billings, MT – 500
Peoria, IL – 500
Piscataway, NJ – 500
Clarksville, TN – 500
Port St. Lucie, FL – 500
Pensacola, FL – 500
San Diego, CA – 500
Redlands, CA – 500
Corpus Christi, TX – 500
Las Vegas, NV – 500
Santa Rosa, CA – 500
St. Simons Island, FL – 500
Chico, CA – 500
Burleson, TX – 500
Lisbon, OH – 500
Naperville, IL – 500
Tampa, FL – 500
Southlake, TX – 500
San Francisco, CA – 500
Little Rock, AR – 500
Montpelier, VT – 500
Missoula, MT – 500
Fishersville, VA – 500
Myrtle Beach, SC – 500
Fort Smith, AR – 500
Marietta, WV – 500
Pearland, TX – 450
St. Cloud, MN – 450
Jackson, MI – 450
Hollidaysburg, PA – 450
Springfield, IL – 400
Livonia, MI – 400
Champaign, IL – 400
Honolulu, HI – 400
Columbus, MS – 400
Lexington, NE – 400
Elba, AL – 400
Valdosta, GA – 400
Trenton, NJ – 400
Syracuse, NY – 400
Abingdon, VA – 400
Lancaster, PA – 400
Modesto, CA – 400
Chillicothe, OH – 400
Edenton, NC – 400
Gardiner, NY – 400
Florence, AL – 350
Thousand Oaks, CA – 338 (average of two estimates)
Sandusky, OH – 300
Friendswood, TX – 300
Fayetteville, NC – 300 (two events)
Camdenton, MO – 300
Bangor, ME – 300
Cheyenne, WY – 300
Muskegon, MI – 300
Joliet, IL – 300
Rutland, VT – 300
Massapequa, NY – 300
Lakewood Ranch, FL – 300
Harrisburg, IL – 300
Fon du Lac, WI – 300
Minden, LA – 300
El Dorado, AR – 300
Columbus, GA – 300
Iowa City, IA – 300
Harrison, AR – 300
York, SC – 300
New Braunfels, TX – 300
Parkersburg, WV – 300
Goldsboro, NC – 300
Martinsburg, WV – 300
Borger, TX – 275
Elizabethtown, KY – 275
Glendale, CA – 275 (average of two estimates)
Bethlehem, PA – 275 (average of two estimates)
Ashtabula, OH – 275
Chelsea, MI – 250
Kahului, HI – 250
Nicholasville, KY – 250
Newport News, VA – 250
San Mateo, CA – 250
Cody, WY – 250 (average of two estimates)
Frankfort, KY – 250
Miami, OK – 250
Gilmer, TX – 250
Norwalk, OH – 250
Craig, CO – 221
Hannibal, MO – 200
Ann Arbor, MI – 200
Seguin, TX – 200
Neunan, GA – 200
Pappilon, NE – 200
Walton, FL – 200
Cleveland, TN – 200
Jefferson City, MO – 200
Merced, CA – 200
Pismo Beach, CA – 200
Coldwater, MI – 200
Dickinson, ND – 200
Fort Scott, KS – 200
Reno, NV – 200
Rockford, IL – 200
Flemington, NJ – 200
Bellevue, WA – 200
Palmer Township, PA – 200
Youngstown, OH – 200
Helena, MT – 200
Fayetteville, GA – 200
Crystal Lake, IL – 200
Bartow, FL – 200
Scranton, PA – 200
Rowlett, TX – 200
Dekalb, AL – 200
Portsmouth, NH – 200
Rochester, NH – 200
Mankato, MN – 200
Greenville, NC – 200
Ada, OK – 200
Superior, WI – 200
Bloomington, IN – 200
Oswego, IL – 200
Philadelphia, PA – 200
Yucaipa, CA – 200
Stockton, CA – 200
Defiance, OH – 175
Reading, PA – 150
Buffalo, NY – 150
Watkinsville, GA – 150
Pullman, WA – 150
South Kitsap, WA – 150
Baltimore, MD – 150
Currituck, NC – 150
Emporia, KS – 150
Elizabeth City, NC – 150
Simi Valley, CA – 150
Kalispell, MT – 150
Omaha, NE – 150
Council Bluffs, IA – 150
Evansville, IN – 150 (average of two estimates)
Albany, OR – 140
Dover, NH – 125
Boiling Springs, SC – 120
San Bernardino, CA – 100
Kingston, NY – 100
Camden, NY – 100
Moscow, ID – 100
Anderson, IN – 100
Bremerton, WA – 100
Chico, WA – 100
Oak Harbor, WA – 100
Meridian, MS – 100
Staunton, VA – 100
Gastonia, NC – 100
Bristol, TN – 100
Greenville, TN – 100
Shelton, CT – 100
Glenwood Springs, CO – 100
Marion, IL – 100
Plattsburgh, NY – 100
Crown Point, IN- 100
Fremont, OH – 100
Astoria, OR – 100
Coos Bay, OR – 100
Bad Axe, MI – 100
Pittsfield, NY – 100
Vineland, NJ – 100
San Marcos, TX – 90
Milwaukee, WI – 80
Fort Mill, SC – 80
New Richmond, WI – 80
Cotulla, TX – 80
Chester, NY – 80
Bradenton, FL – 75
Natchez, MS – 75
Corona, CA – 65 (two locations)
Herrin, IL – 65
West Covina, CA – 60
Richmond Hill, GA – 60
Newark, NJ – 50
Opelousas, AL – 50
Nicholson, GA – 50
Napa, CA – 50
North Platte, NE – 50
Westerville, OH – 50
Oakland, CA – 50
Frisco, CO – 50
Pittsburg/Antoich, CA – 50
Carbondale, IL – 50
Sevierville, TN – 40
Carterville, IL – 40
Nobelsville, IN – 35
Gadsden, AL – 35
Pataskala, OH – 30
Green Cove Springs, FL – 30
Richmond, CA – 30
Selma, AL – 30
Lake City, WA – 24
Bound Book, NJ – 20
Plainville, CT – 13
Sitka, AK – 12
Fort Plain, NY – 12
Please submit the link(s) next time. 12 pages for a single comment is a bit excessive.
Since the commenter clearly has no use for links or looking things up that are easy to find, I think my way of posting made the point I desired to make. I would agree with you in most cases, though.
see no evil, hear no evil and speak to no evil conservatives. the motto of the msm
Oh, please neocon527. I am so impressed that you listed all those numbers—too bad I never saw all of that in the papers I read. I wasn’t even talking to you and you missed my point entirely!!
Well, gosh, if they weren’t in the papers YOU read…then they must not be real. Here’s a few links though to other papers, which I imagine would fall under the umbrella of the MSM:
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/politics/19184864/detail.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/politics/that_tax_with_tea_aegy7VN0Zp0LAJTBbORNGN
http://www.nbc12.com/global/story.asp?s=10192328
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/politics/16taxday.html?_r=1&ref=your-money
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12147073
http://www.kypost.com/content/wcposhared/story/Cincinnati-Tea-Party-Tax-Protest-Draws-4-000/vYvao8Kynk2VTD70KE-E9g.cspx
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2009/apr/15/tax-protest-draws-huge-crowd-riverfront/?breakingnews
If your uninformed whining had a point other than that you don’t know about the availability of the information you claim does not exist, I guess I did miss it.
I see. So, it’s okay when you wish to make a point. Got it.
Was that supposed to be a zinger, Salt? I made my point the way I wanted to make it. I disagreed with the sentiments of the post I was responding to and also knew it was inaccurate. I didn’t say it was okay for me to make a point and not okay for someone else.
It’s about time. I’m thinking anyone penalized for any reason since April 15th under our tax laws should file suit under the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. Within a few weeks, it could turn into a Class Action suit.
Absolutely. The makers of Turbo Tax should force him to provide proof, or sue for damages.
FIFY
Okay, neocon527 – just keep drinking your Obamagrape Kool-Aid until you are drunk enough to believe that the current bunch in Congress give a fig about this country.
John Adams cautioned, “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
Not that you care….I won’t waste my time responding to any further comment you make.
Sigh. How hard is it to just say, I thought the MSM failed to report attendance numbers from the tea parties, but I was wrong? You can still hate every member of Congress for all I care. Since I never mentioned members of Congress or whether or not they “give a fig” about the country, it’s not of much importance to me. I mean, it’s awesome that you made the Kool-Aid grape. And you quoted John Adams, which obviously makes your snark much more important. But you still can’t deal with the fact that the entire point was that you were wrong. Sorry. That was my one and only point. No more, no less.