That post-dates his nomination problems but just goes to show how much ‘due diligence’ Bush did. My feeling is that is a crook tries to hide stuff and does a good job then the appointer, be they Bush or Obama, are also to some extent victims.
I’d lay odds there isn’t one set of completely clean hands in either House.
Is tax cheating the only offense that counts? Didn’t we have our share of GOP scandals in the Bush era?
Seems a tad askew to me, as well. It’s easy to make a mistake with taxes, and the IRS will slap a lien on your bank account in a heartbeat. Happened to my wife when she failed to send in a form telling the IRS she had terminated the woman caring for her mother. Even though she paid the woman’s social security and all, the IRS placed a lien on our bank account until it was all resolved.
If there’s not more to this issue, then it’s probably better that someone who panics easily is not in the cabinet.
Oh, and fuck Tom Daschle.
Shorter Bricker: I will make the effort to rightly call others out on their specious reasoning, and then turn around and spew some of my own right back.
Shorter chefguy: Yeah! And then some!
This is an example of a strawman: argument from incompetance.
Particularly when you deliberately and egregiously misquote me.
I never specified a crime. Just speculating something far more serious than tax witholding less than $1000, rectified long ago. You jumped the gun here.
Could be a medical condition, could be an affair. Hell, I don’t know . Its really difficult to provide a cite for my own speculation.
Then just shut up. It’s the obvious solution.
Seriously? Did you actually read the link? Total conspiracy theory logic going on.
Get back to us again when you have any shred of evidence at all. This is worse than Obama’s Birth Certificate conspiracy loonies.
Or Sarah Palin?
I didn’t misquote you. I paraphrased your argument.
Nor does your disavowal of the specific accusation of “crime” help your case. Your speculation is simply that - speculation. In debate, a gratuitous assertion may be equally gratuitously denied. Your “speculation” is intended to make the point that she has something to hide, especially in view of the thread title and original post for this thread, which also came from you.
I’ve just spent eight years listening to ignorant yammerheads mutter darkly about Bush’s administration; one post above cites a column that talks about how Bush “may” have evaded taxes with only speculation in place of evidence. I see that now that the shoe is on the other foot, rationality isn’t going to spring up. You cannot accuse based on ungrounded speculation, you can’t lump Democrats together as “crooks,” and expect to be taken seriously.
Wasn’t it Charlie Rangle, chair of Ways and Means, the ones who WRITE the tax code caught up in a tax scandal recently? His excuse? (Paraphrased) “I didn’t understand the tax law.”
Joe Biden himself said it was patriotic to pay taxes during the campaign. Funny how the missteps of Obama somehow still rile up the anti-Bush crowd. I remember as of January 21, 2001 conservatives weren’t allowed to utter the name Clinton without a barrage of left-wingers complaining.
Well, I guess we got our change.
Yes. Daschle was on the Senate Finance Committee, though, which does the same thing. I don’t really understand the point of your post, though.
It sounds like you’re calling out Democrats (or possibly even Republicans) for being consistent.