Poor little Puffy. He’s really sorry for cheating on his taxes and now claims to be embarrassed.
OK, so if you’re embarrassed, reject the cabinet nomination and go away. You and your fat-cat lobbyist wife don’t have to worry about finances like the little people.
Thomas A. Daschle, picked by President Barack Obama to be Health and Human Services secretary, said he was “deeply embarrassed†about $128,000 in errors on his taxes, and promised in a letter to answer all questions about how it happened.
The letter was sent to the ranking members of the Senate Finance Committee prior to a meeting today between the panel and the former U.S. senator, according to a person who provided the correspondence to Bloomberg. Daschle amended his returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007, and paid $140,000 in taxes and interest.
Daschle’s nomination must be confirmed by the finance committee. Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona, a panel member, said on “Fox News Sunday†that it’s too early to tell whether the nomination is in trouble. Daschle refiled his returns Jan. 2 to add unreported consulting fees, unspecified charitable contributions and a car and driver provided by Leo Hindery Jr., a founder of the private-equity firm InterMedia Advisors, a committee draft report said.
Virtually any other American busted for avoiding taxes for three years would be facing jail time.
Roy Subrosa, at the VV, continues to characterize the PJM contract as wingnut welfare on the basis of Roger having done so himself. I don’t know how his social workers at the VV remunerate Roy on their dole. Obama stamps? Carbon credits? Inquiring minds want to know.
Mike Hendrix on the New Outlawry
Most of us would be deeply in the shit if we owed the IRS more than $100,000 in back taxes and penalties. We might be considering Chapter 13 bankruptcy (even if you cannot easily discharge money owed to the IRS) and figuring out how we save our home from foreclosure.
But Tommy D operates at a different level. Hell, if Geithner can get in at Treasury, why not Daschel too.
Do you know why, Joe? They’re too big to fail.
NPR is the biggest welfare slut around and it’s as dirty socialist as they come. I think these people are being highly selective in their criticisms. Maybe they want to point to a contrived tension between “wingnut welfare” and individualism, but I think the tension between being a dirty socialist tool for Baracky while claiming journalistic independence is much more glaring.
Tom Daschle is corrupt. Simple as that. He took monies that traded on his official influence and didn’t report them while advocating higher taxes for his former constituents. People what condone his corruption are corrupt. Simple as that. Baracky condones his corruption. We are in big big trouble is what this points to.
Over at Salon Glen Greenwald really lays into Cheeseburger Tom.
Money quote from Matt Taibbi…. “In Washington there are whores and there are whores, and then there is Tom Daschle. Tom Daschle would suck off a corpse for a cheeseburger.”
http://tinyurl.com/ca3q2f
“Daschle’s nomination must be confirmed by the finance committee. Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona, a panel member, said on “Fox News Sunday†that it’s too early to tell whether the nomination is in trouble.”
That’s because there’s a “D” after his name.
At this point an “R” would be consigned to the deepest bowels of Lubyanka Prison with his very own personal interrogator.
“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.â€Â
–Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507.
A better scam for Tom would have been for him to have a disease where he only had 3 years to live, then not pay his taxes. Because now he’d be dead and the IRS wouldn’t come after him. That would have been the better play in my opinion.
Wow, I never thought I’d see this day…
I am default cool, edgy and with it again; and I don’t even know what it is…
The artists, the hip, the rebels and the poets are squares man!, and have now been employed in the service of The Man! and pushing his agenda…
I feel light, happy, carefree, and righteous…
Kinda like a hippy I guess…Only I bathe…And eat meat…And don’t smoke grass anymore…And have a job…And don’t expect others to provide my living…
Alright, so I’m no neo-hippy…
I’m an OUTLAW!
That’s exactly it, Bob. You bad, bad man.
“The artists, the hip, the rebels and the poets are squares man!, and have now been employed in the service of The Man! and pushing his agenda…”
Kinda like this?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18011.html
That is decidedly one element of it Pink…
It’s just one I didn’t mention; the stealth Propagandists…
Effin’ CNN and ABC should be forced to runa disclaimer evey time one of those guys opens their mouth…
Hey, that check fraud guy they made the movie about (Catch Me If You Can) made an honest living as a fraud consultant. See what I’m getting at?
You know, some of these people could probably use better fraud consultancy.
I see the PajamasTV ads are still running.
Now that’s Outlaw!
The contract goes through March 31, snippy.
Roger L. Simon said you were welcome to stop running the ads if you wanted to, Dan.
And your point is what? snippy?
If PW was really offended by Simon’s characterization of the checks they get for running his ads as “the dole’ wouldn’t you think they’d stop running the ads instead of trying to get a final suckle of the teat?
“If PW was really offended by Simon’s characterization of the checks they get for running his ads as “the dole’ wouldn’t you think they’d stop running the ads instead of trying to get a final suckle of the teat?”
What part of having a contract is it that you don’t understand?
Announcement: At Jeff’s upcoming wrassling seminar I have paid in full for a very high class Chicago hooker to attend. Anyone who first recognizes the street hooker midst the PW hooker-faced regulars and states “Thor is God†gets a free hummer, at least a hummer that is, you might get even more action from a PW regular after being so bold but I can’t guarantee that.
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Not only will I fulfill me part of the contract, but all this attention is raising my page views and ensuring that PJM has to pump out even more cash.
I feel like I’m having extra kids so that I can get that big screen I’ve had my eye on!
Once Sen Daschle takes over as your new health czar, this is the kind of thing you can look forward to paying for.
A list of the administrators that regularly contact a typical British Family doctor.
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A list of administrators
“I feel like I’m having extra kids so that I can get that big screen I’ve had my eye on!”
I dunno Jeff,
If you pump out enough of those puppies you can make the payments on a new Escalade…
But Don’t! Get a prius instead; do it for gaia…
Kevin, that list is frightening.
#1 Joe:
If either of us owed the IRS over $100,000 in back taxes we would be fleeing for our lives, hoping we lose the federal hounds in the swamps before the alligators find us down.
Now if you are a big-wig Democrat, and discover that you owe over $100,000 in taxes your servants will bring you soothing drinks as a flunky is sent out to to explain to the masses that it is all their fault that you are now so upset.
Isn’t Edroso formerly of WarbloggerWatch?
I guess they had a certain entertainment value. Jackass, the blog.
As the political class becomes the new nobility, to whom the rules apply not, it only seems logical that the rest of us become the new peasants, to whom all the rules apply.
The only happiness that can result from this continuing spiral is the hope of a nice bloody Jacquerie every now and again.
Once radicalized and admitted to the politburo, members can do no material wrong. They can only commit ideological errors, which may result in anything from temporary exile to complete death (where memories of you are hounded into oblivion).
The rest of the citizenry are permitted to live if they keep their yaps shut and wait patiently in line for whatever it is they have a ration coupon for. The left has no room for expressed opposition, and as evidenced by so many lefty leaders, those who cannot be radicalized must be prevented from passing on their genetic material.
So far we only suffer this virtually.
Simply put, Daschle is just another slimy, crooked, cocksucking Democrat politician. Oh, that’s not quite right! Sorry about that. That would be Barney Frank. Daschle is just a scumsucking, dishonest politician protecting the common man; just like Chris Dodd, or William Jefferson, or Geithner, or Rangel or Blagejovich, or Clinton, or Reid, or Pelosi, or……, or…..take your pick of any elected prick in Washington DC or any state capitol, or any major city, or any small city
Am I becoming too cynical? Sadly, I feel my hopitude and changiness slipping away.
Yep, that shallow bench problem rears it’s head again. Can’t sack the crackheads when you gotta fill out the roster from the shallow end.
Our Public School systems look about the same.
I guess we’ve gone from “Most Ethical Congress in History” to “Most Ethical Cabinet” in history. Really, democrats should just rename themselves the Ethicrats, because they oooze, literally ooze ethics.
Also, what does PJM ads have to with anything in this thread. Care to discuss Tom Daschle, tax cheat, snippy ? Or how about Charlie Rangel, mortgage cheat. Cause there’s some good material there.
“Only little people pay taxes.” – Leona Helmsley.
The new motto of the Democrats.
Daschle is just trying to show that he’s down with the Chicago Way. Remember, they charged Al Capone with tax evasion..
Al Capone’s problem is that he wasn’t a politician.
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