"How is it possible that a Congress with an overall approval rating of 13 percent saw 95 percent of its incumbent representation win reelection along with 88 percent of its incumbent senators? Common sense tells us those two things cannot possibly go together--yet it happened. Why? Because veteran politicians have written the rules to favor themselves and the two mainstream political parties."
"Six of President Obama's nominees were either tangled up in the tax code's complexity (over sixty-seven thousand pages) or were simply crooks who sought to defraud the government. But since they were all well-traveled in political circles, Congress graciously excused their tax 'issues' as honest mistakes.
But what if they weren't? What if some of the people now working in the highest levels of our government are no different than imprisoned tax cheats Wesley Snipes or Richard Hatch, who conveniently 'forgot' to declare the million dollars he won on Survivor as income?
Here's the problem: we'll never know because both the media and the people failed the Republic. Why did no one demand that each of these nominees explain their behavior under oath in televised hearings? Why did no one demand that the harshest of penalties be imposed on every one of these people for what they'd done--even if it was a mistake? After all, if you leave some income off your taxes, I'm pretty sure the IRS will not be accepting 'sorry', 'I forgot', or 'I used TurboTax' as an excuse.
And that brings us to admitted tax violator Timothy Geithner. As Treasury Secretary, he is responsible for not only leading America out of her economic crisis, but also for overseeing the IRS and enforcing the very laws he failed to obey.
Here is a man we were told was 'the only person smart enough' for the Treasury job, and yet he wasn't smart enough to pay for his payroll tax? He's a 'brilliant' economist and yet he wasn't brilliant enough to figure out his tax bill, even though his employer (the IMF) had done the math, cut him a check for the right amount, and made him sign an affidavit acknowledging that the check was to be used for his payroll tax?"
More later, I'm leaving now. And yes, this is from 'Glenn Beck's Common Sense', obviously by Glenn Beck. And before you cry 'partisan', he's mentioned and criticized Bush numerous times.
