Jan 31, 2009 9:52am
Today’s Obamicon
On Jan. 2, President Obama’s nominee to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human services, former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., filed amended tax returns to pay $140,167 in unpaid taxes. Read more about it HERE and HERE. Obamicon software and image courtesy of our friends at Paste magazine. – jpt
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Maybe if all the people in the Obama administration would pay their taxes we would not need a stimulus package.
Posted by: R Gee | January 31, 2009, 9:58 am 9:58 am
Does this mean, according to Biden, that Geithner and Daschle are unpatriotic?
Posted by: Just askin' | January 31, 2009, 10:05 am 10:05 am
It is a scary picture.
Posted by: anonymous | January 31, 2009, 10:15 am 10:15 am
Who will be next?????
Change, change, cahnge we can count on.
Posted by: Lizzie | January 31, 2009, 10:23 am 10:23 am
Note to Obama: People don’t like to pay taxes. Even “wealthy” people don’t like to pay taxes. “Wealthy” people will obviously go to great lengths to not pay them when they get too high.
Please learn from this that raising taxes is not the answer.
Posted by: MayBee | January 31, 2009, 10:34 am 10:34 am
His cabinet truly is an Obamanation!!
Posted by: hkdakota | January 31, 2009, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Tax cheats should not be allowed to hold an office that taxpayers are footing the bill for.
They should be hung out to dry as a deterrent to anybody else in high office thinking about it.
We already know that Republicons and those who support them, as a matter of course do everything in their power to avoid contributing financially to running this country.
Now it seems there are plenty of members of the Democratic party as well.
No amount of publicly shaming any of these people will be too much.
Posted by: Truth Matters | January 31, 2009, 10:35 am 10:35 am
Wasn’t Al Capone given 11 years for income tax evasion?
Posted by: James Villa | January 31, 2009, 10:54 am 10:54 am
How many of us could get away with not paying $140,000 in taxes? It is really sad to see parent struggling to feed their children when you have rich liberals who won’t pay their taxes. Where is their shame? Aren’t they the ones who claim everyone else should pay higher taxes so they can spend money on their special interst buddies?
If you supported Obama in the election, I want to hear why you support Daschle or Geithner. After all, if the Obama campaign could send their goons to look through Joe the plumbers background, why can’t they look at the background of these people with the same intensity?
Posted by: James | January 31, 2009, 10:57 am 10:57 am
Obama = Corruption
Once a member of the Chicago Machine, always a member of the Chicago Machine.
Al Capone was convicted of income-tax evasion in 1931. Today he would have been given a cabinet post. I guess it was just Al’s dumb luck to become a cheat and a criminal before the age of Obama.
The Audacity of a fraud continues.
Posted by: Alicia | January 31, 2009, 11:02 am 11:02 am
Alicia… Wake up! It is not Obama that did not pay his taxes – it happens to be people he has chosen for his Administration. The problem Obama has is either these people lied to him or they weren’t vetted properly.
The Audacity of Stupidity continues…
Posted by: Sandee | January 31, 2009, 11:25 am 11:25 am
How do these tax cheats fit into Obama’s “age of responsibility” that he talked about during the inauguration?
57 million of us already knew BO was a fraud and hypocrite.
Posted by: meggie | January 31, 2009, 11:26 am 11:26 am
aw give it a rest folks.
good job tappy
way to attract all the flies to your blog.
Posted by: Omentum | January 31, 2009, 11:27 am 11:27 am
If he doesn’t get the position FINE. Stop linking this to obama.
Fired CEOs for poor performance make ten times that much.
Posted by: Omentum | January 31, 2009, 11:29 am 11:29 am
Now we know why Obama’s friends support higher taxes–they are not required to pay them.
Posted by: sammy | January 31, 2009, 11:29 am 11:29 am
Change apparently is a mirage America.
Posted by: James Villa | January 31, 2009, 11:50 am 11:50 am
I see how Obama won the election.
50% of Americans do not have to pay taxes and Obama is sending them a check.
The rich refuse to pay taxes and they get away with it.
With Geither in charge of the IRS Obama is a cinch for reelection.
Posted by: riley | January 31, 2009, 11:57 am 11:57 am
Only an idiot would claim that less than 100% of Americans pay taxes. In fact, not only do all Americans pay taxes, so do all illegal immigrants (most of whom are in fact already American, but I digress).
Posted by: Flash Override | January 31, 2009, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
I dont think that this tax issue is comparable to Geithner’s but all the same if it was knowingly done, it is condemnable but it is something that can readily escape anyone. Geithner’s was more deliberate but this one was discovered by the transition team in their vetting process and they quickly corrected it. I believe Tom is going to be confirmed still.
Posted by: jayjay | January 31, 2009, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm
good job tappy
way to attract all the flies to your blog.
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It’s obviously not honey that’s attracting them, but something a tad nasty. I think this was inspired by the swarms the earlier reports on Daschle produced. I detect a reciprocity here between blogging and “journalism.”
Posted by: kathy | January 31, 2009, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm
I see so many Obama bashers. Waoh, Obama is only thirteen days in office and yet he has so many opposition already. For now, just relax, he will make a mistake but I do not see any yet. Instead, I see his popularity increasing.
Posted by: jayjay | January 31, 2009, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm
JayJay,
The change I was expecting has become a mirage. Wake up pal you’ve been had but apparently that doesn’t bother you for many reasons i’m sure.
Posted by: James Villa | January 31, 2009, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
“Instead, I see his popularity increasing.”
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Contrary to the mirage his detractors around here construct and the punditry of some talking heads.
Posted by: kathy | January 31, 2009, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm
Yea Kathy, Al Capone got 11 years for income tax evasion. If he were alive i’m sure he would have voted for Obama and been appointed to head up the ATF.
Posted by: James Villa | January 31, 2009, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm
At least be truthful. Obama’s approval ratings have fallen since the inauguration. Right now, they are about the same as Jimmy Carter’s were at this time in his presidency. Interesting…
From Berkowitz in the wsj:
“…Bush hatred and Obama euphoria — which tend to reveal more about those who feel them than the men at which they are directed — are opposite sides of the same coin. Both represent the triumph of passion over reason. Both are intolerant of dissent. Those wallowing in Bush hatred and those reveling in Obama euphoria frequently regard those who do not share their passion as contemptible and beyond the reach of civilized discussion. Bush hatred and Obama euphoria typically coexist in the same soul…
“…Bush hatred and Obama euphoria are particularly toxic because they thrive in and have been promoted by the news media, whose professional responsibility, it has long been thought, is to gather the facts and analyze their significance, and by the academy, whose scholarly training, it is commonly assumed, reflects an aptitude for and dedication to systematic study and impartial inquiry…”
Posted by: Facts | January 31, 2009, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
“Instead, I see his popularity increasing.”
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Democracy Corps released a poll that shows Obama’s approval rating at 55%. This is nearly a 30 point drop since his inauguration. The American people are beggining to see Obama for who he is and what he believes. I predict he will be below a 50% approval rating in six months. I am actually surprised, I really though Obama was smart enough to avoid establishing such a left-wing persona so early on in his administration. Does not bode well for him over the next four years.
Posted by: James | January 31, 2009, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
This is a bad way to start off. People don’t have any confidence in government and Obama picks people who don’t pay taxes.
Posted by: Vi | January 31, 2009, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
Jake Tapper rocks!
Posted by: Carl | January 31, 2009, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm
Shameful not only describes wallstreet but is a perfect word to describe the Pelosi house stimulus plan. Immediate aide requires direct action. You cannot stay warm, feed the hunger or house those put on the street by storm, eviction, forclosure with the garbage expenditures included in this folly. Obama will see how quickly the Independence will turn away if he does not act to rein in his DNC CA I sincerely hope that the Senate steps up to adjust the content of this bill.
Posted by: cjvwise1 | January 31, 2009, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
Democracy Corps released a poll that shows Obama’s approval rating at 55%. This is nearly a 30 point drop since his inauguration.
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I’ve never heard of Democracy Corps. On 1-21 , the day after inauguration, Obama had a 69% approval rating according to Gallup. The only other person to have a higher approval since WW II was Kennedy, who had a 72% rating on 2-15-61. Source: Time
Today’s Gallup poll has him at 67%. for approval. No precipitous drop as claimed ever happened. No president in US history has ever had a 30 point drop in approval over a period of ten days.
Posted by: kathy | January 31, 2009, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
Democracy Corps released a poll that shows Obama’s approval rating at 55%. This is nearly a 30 point drop since his inauguration.
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I took a look at Democracy Corps. There is nothing about any 30 point drop in approval rating, but there are very strong polling numbers for the stimulus bill.
It appears my previous posting didn’t go through. But sufffice to say, no president in US history has ever undergone a 30 point drop in 10 days, not even his predecessor.
Posted by: kathy | January 31, 2009, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm
DOCTOR DEAN FOR HSS SECRETARY
Posted by: the obvious choice | January 31, 2009, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm
*Sigh* it doesn’t matter. His brand of transparency is “here’s what I’m gonna do, and there’s not thing one any of you voters can do about it.” Sounds really, really familiar, doesn’t it?
Daschle will be in…who’s next?
What’s saddest is that SOME people people find this acceptable…because he’s Obama. What freakin’ sense does that make? How can you bash one and not another who does basically the same thing? That’s just unhinged. People wanted honesty, or so they said. How can they accept this?
And yes, SOME responses to this will prove my point. And won’t be worth a response from me.
Posted by: LaughingCynic | January 31, 2009, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
the article was worth reading. keep it up!!
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