Why Daschle Withdrew His Nomination

What a shame. It’s a loss for all of America.

Another bad apple. Democrats wants to use your taxes and say as Biden said “its a your patriotic duty to pay taxes” I wander who is the true America now, I guess not the democrats according to Biden. Go Democrats keep make fools of yourself.

I’ll bet there was more to come out.

Sorry George, I respect your sources and your opinions, but this came from Obama. Daschle is like almost every other Senator, they feel they have a different set of rules and they can stonewall past any indisgression until it goes away. See Chris Dodd and the sweetheart Countrywide loans.
Daschle wanted this post and he knew that with a press that still falls all over itself for the Messiah and backing by the hypocritcal Senate Dems, he would get confirmed. He only cared about this post and his own cause. If he cared one lick about Obama, he would have told him about his tax issue before he was nominated. He purposely did not tell him because he wanted the job.
But Obama realized that he has been losing credibility and he has numerous daggers over his head already. It’s only so long before a Clinton contribution eruption occurs, he has enough lobbyists or fringe lobbyists in his administration to make Bush blush and he just had an AG confirmed that has shown in the past that he will ignore what is right when he is told to do so. And he has someone over the IRS who decided he didn’t want to pay all of his taxes.
Daschle might have been the straw that could even have MSNBC begin to ask if Obama is really the Messiah or not. I guarantee you that Mr. Unflappable was PO’d when he first found out about Daschle’s tax issue. And then the man who promised transparency, decided to stand by his man in public while his Chicago hatchet boy Rahm called Tom and convinced him to withdraw.

I agree with russ 100%. Geroge do you think we are stupid. Oh, now I remembered you are another Deocrat who worked for B.C. and trying to give excuses for Daschle. If he is so distress of his brother’s illeness he would withdrawl before all this happened. Sorry George, but I have to say you are another hack.

I guess these are the Whitehouse talking points George got on his morning conference call with Emmanuel.

George, are you a true reporter or a cover-up for the corrupt Democrats?

All gloves are off.
You Repugs can be salivating about your victory in pushing Daschle and Kellifer out.
We are waiting for your turn.
Hypocrite Republicans.
What Daschle and Kellifer are accused of is pitence compared to what Republicans have done to this country.
We shall bury you Repugs in 2010.

George, the main-stream becomes the joke of the town. Why you don’t go and ask the hard questions and find out what is the true reason why he is withdrawing? od do you only rely on Mr. Gibbs explanation and take it without even questioning it. What a shame you become a tool to be used by this administration.

Hey, They want the rich to pay their fare share. Well, what’s stopping you?

Zero has shown his elitist instincts to excuse his cronies from what average Americans are expected to do. Remember how the Obama campaign and the media villified citizen Joe the Plumber for having a $1,000 tax lien, suggesting that somehow he was unqualified to even ask a question? Talk about double standards!

It would be tough for him to soldier on with a $134,000 oversight after Nancy had to bow out of $250. That would be like the biggest double standard ever.

“Free Turbo Tax” sponsored link accompanying this piece is kind of funny…didn’t Geithner cast some blame their way for his tax woes?

To You Senator Daschle: What a fine Senator you are…and your honesty is above the lax of this fight that continues in Washington…What can the President do..His faith in you shine with many of us who are not heard…Many who hold public office down below do not deserve the credit nor the respect you have shown to us! I commend you Seantor for standing strong….The Republican white-wash is all about shove and push..I am sorry you felt this blow…But there is something greater for sure…We welcome you down below…You are a wise man and many would tell you so….I am Proud as an American can be that President Obama selected You! Blessings to a fitting Man who cares about the People…We have lost so many against the “red hat” of the Republican cruelty…So, much we face at home….not about family anymore…its all about who gets, and no matter what it takes to get His! Apachecheynne

Don’t bother to go to comedy central. this is it- George is the Obama jester.Remember Daschel was and is dirty, He was voted out of office by his own state. Look for more dirty appointees. The folks are angry and are overtaxing the white house switchboard.They have had it with lies and crooked politicians-The little boy obama is being led around by the nose by polosi and reid. Daschel was their choice. Look for more, stuff happens

Democratic hypocrits.
Remind me to check the “brother with brain cancer” box on my 1040 next year.

Daschle did the honorable thing. He made mistakes and had become a distraction. We’ve got to keep our eye on the goal of universal health care coverage for every single American. That’s the fight we must win.

People, people
Give it a rest. It pains me to say this about our government, but do you honestly think ANYONE in Congress, DEM or REP don’t have their hand in a cookie jar or have an intern or two hidden away from his wife somewhere. Right now it’s just the Dems catching the flack. How many Reps do you think have just paid some back taxes?
Washington politics, politics in general, is so dirty there is not enough clorox in the world to clean it up. I believe that there are some politicians that start out clean and have good intentions, but in order to play with the big boys you have to learn how to get down and dirty. It’s all a big game. Most of them don’t really give a da..mn about us except when it looks good for them and earns them brownie points with their constituents. The career politicians are the worst. Power tripping has gone to their heads and they think they are above reproach until payback has a way of sometimes catching up with them.
I believe Obama really does want to do the right thing. Look at his message, and career choices. It has always been the same. However, if he wants to succeed, he’s going to have start taking down and dirty lessons from some of his Reps and Dem buddies. He’s not weak, otherwise he would not have survived this long. However, he is going to have to show everybody that they cannot take his willingness to compromise as a weakness, and take off the kid gloves.

And the repub blogger gloat fest begins. So far the post-election republicans are full of the we don’t know what to do but we are still sure you are wrong blues. Something is seriously wrong when a person takes more pleasure in someone else’s mistakes than in their own accomplishments. I hated Bush during his presidency, but I never was happy when he flubbed a line or messed up. I would rather have seen him succeed against my own inclinations and put this country in better standing. What I see on many of these posts is rather depressing.

“Daschle did the honorable thing. He made mistakes and had become a distraction.”
Signed
Richard Nixon

Why did he withdraw? For the same reason any man withdraws – because he is finished.

Oh and frankly I bet that if you put any longterm senator or congressman through a similar vetting process they would fail just as badly, whether democrat or republican. And you know what, I don’t even know if I have filed my own taxes correctly and I make a fraction of what they do with way less ambiguity of services and gifts and what not. Sometimes a mistake was probably a mistake, and sometimes they probably did it on purpose and how in the world can we tell the difference?

Oh come on… not one word about this being such a mortifying display of willfully avoiding the law that he was shamed into doing the “right thng?”
The man and those who support him have no shame.. none whatsoever.And what sort of boyscouts does Obama have vetting these guys? Obviously, Geithner, Daschle, et al were/are just to important and connected to check out.

Donna said: “Give it a rest. It pains me to say this about our government, but do you honestly think ANYONE in Congress, DEM or REP don’t have their hand in a cookie jar or have an intern or two hidden away from his wife somewhere.”
Fine… find out AND KICK THEM ALL OUT. NO EXCUSES. People like you make excuses, and we get more of this. Don’t you see that?
A crook is a crook.
I would rather see Congress filled with farmers and police officers rather than a SINGLE LAWYER.

Dee said: “The man stepped down, give it a rest and get a life!”
I agree. 8 years of Bush bashing must have you exhausted.
How does it fell, Dee?

Gus: “I see no difference between the tax cheating Obama appointees and the Wall Street crowd.”
I think that about sums up Republican’s relevance. They view not reporting as income a free car service with people who lost literally trillions of dollars while pocketing billions of dollars in bonuses and engineering the collapse of the world financial markets.
Exactly the same in the eyes of the Republicans, and the state of our economy reflects that.

No loss there appear to be literally thousands of wealthy Democratic tax cheats to chose from

Donna: The problem is that Obama said that he was going to change Washington, but if he let Daschle the head of HHS in spite of his failure to pay his taxes, and taking money from those whom he sought to oversee would have been a violation of what he promised. I am not a right wing republican I am a moderate Democrat, and instead of decrying that that is just the ways of politics you sould be praising me and others who are just trying to help President Obama keep his promise to change Whasington and not let Whasington change him. This decesion was a no brainer and should have been made sooner!

Howardddd Deannnn….c,mon down!!!!!!!

democrats have proven their integrity – can’t say the same about rush’s republicans or george’s war

Ster1 said: Fine… find out AND KICK THEM ALL OUT. NO EXCUSES. People like you make excuses, and we get more of this. Don’t you see that?
A crook is a crook.
I would rather see Congress filled with farmers and police officers rather than a SINGLE LAWYER.
Great,
Do you know 635 farmers and police officers? You might also want to keep a running list so that when one of them crews up, they can be replaced.
I’m not making excuses for anybody. I’m just stating what I believe is a common practice in politics. I didn’t say it was right, but I deal in realities. And realty is, a whole lot of scumbags in Congress are going to stay there until some reporter accidentally uncovers the dirt.

The new form 1040Dem, inspired by the Geithner and Daschle tax chiseling:
Line 1: Are you a Democrat?
Line 2: How much income [d]o you want to declare for this year?
Line 3: How much tax do you feel like paying on that income?

Here we go with the canned democratic response. Choose one:
(1) Sure he cheated, but so did republicans, only soooo much worse. (Cant wait till your kids spring that one on you)
(2) He made a mistake, but he’s sooooo smart, and the only one of 250 million people who can do that job
(3) Democrats = honorable, misquided
Rebublicans = lying liars who lie

I do hate that this happened to Daschle, but he did the right thing in stepping down. He would have made a great HHS.

Hey George … did you learn this during one of your conference calls w/ Emanuel, Carville and Begala?
Typical liberals … do what we say not what we do. Rules are for the rest of us … not the elite.

George, did you get that right from Rham on the morning conference call? What a crock, Dashole had more troubles coming and could not withstand another week of this because his vote was not coming until next week.

These guys are all crooks. This is what we have to look forward to for the next four years.

“I do hate that this happened to Daschle.”
Democrats are deranged, and not just about Bush. Since when is cheating on your taxes something that happens TO you, like a hail storm, or acne?
Is it also a shame what “happened to” Tim McVeigh?

what really sad is that this shows how many people are in the top echelons of Washington are tainted.
in a lot of ways they live in the same world as Hollywood stars and New York ballplayers … setting their own priorities and picking and choosing the rules that apply to them.
just look at the number of DC elite who see no problem with Daschle not paying $100k in taxes until it was going to become an issue in getting a cabinet appointment
still hoping that some reality will be injected … but not holding my breath

What is really a joke here is how the left treats this like republicans did this to him. I guess it was W’s fault that Dashole defrauded the government by not paying his taxes, by hiding services he received and not disclosing them, by claiming questionable charitable donations. The man is a crook and no republican made him one either.

I blame it all on George W. Bush. It happened during his administraion. He was responsible for advising Daschle not to cheat on his taxes.

poor Daschle his accountant screwed him or its all Bush’s fault… He had nothing to do with it… he would have made such a great head of HHS. What a joke

Can you guys blame George for thinking we are all stupid?

Come on George. You are always making excuses for these corrupt socialist criminals.Dashle is almost certainly a bloody crook.

George S., since you have been out of government for 8 years, maybe you’ve paid your taxes and the SS taxes for your nanny, etc, and could survive the softball barrage from Baucus … Why don’t you call up the Obamatron and cash in your chips?

Thanks for the White House talking points from Emmanuel, I may have missed these points on CNN. It is time for you to join Daschle, on the way out don’t let the door hit your….

George it looks like they are in desperate need for a press secretary that way instead of a phone call in the morning you could use the intercom instead of a phone .

What cracks me up is that Daschle asked his accountant to look into it in June but they didn’t get an answer until December.
Call any CPA in America and ask him if personal use of a limosine is taxable income and he’ll tell you in 5 seconds that yes it is. So in June Tom knew he owed the IRS money. Sure it takes some time to get the records and determine the percent of business and personal use. But Tom knew in June he owed taxes but made no efforts to pay them until the Cabinet position became his.
And any of you Dems that think this is no big deal, you’re full of yourself. To me it’s a big deal whether it was a Republican or a Dem. To you it’s only a big deal if it’s one of Bush’s guys.

Conclusion
It was never about Katrina, or ethics, or the war, or the economy. It is about power.
What is the stimulus bill about? Stimulus? Or liberal payoffs to generate votes in the next election cycle.
Wake up – elections have consequences.

As a lifelong Democrat who saw this horrible presidency coming due just to people like George and his Media friends, I refused to support Obama. The media is a joke after the past 2 years. I used to hate FoxNews, but after the way every other network including George treated Hillary, I found Fox to be the only fair network to watch.
Hillary and her campaign managers all said FoxNews was the only network that treated her fairly! I totally agree! After listening to CNN, MSNBC(Obama network), ABC, NBC, and CBS, I am proud that I voted for McCain!
This 2008 election will hand the country over to the GOP starting in 2012! No one really believed Obama anyway. They just took him at his word and will never make that mistake again!
Obama and his Socialist Generational Bankrupting bill both SUCK!!!

Imagine… George Stephanopulous ‘reporting’ on Tom Daschle… What MSM “in the Tank for Obama” media whitewash.
Daschle purposely avoided paying taxes. Most people would be roasted for that, but NOT an Elite Liberal Democrat.
No questions about the $5M and car, and Driver that Daschle was provided with… Life is good when you are a Liberal Obama Democrat.
So much for the Democrats being the party of the “little man”, or even the “Middle Class”. This is the party of the very Wealthy & Privileged class.

As one leading Democrat put it: “Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.”
That Democrat was then-Sen. Tom Daschle in 1998.
George, thanks for getting Rahm’s, David Axelrod’s and Paul Begala’s talking points out there right away.
My question to ABC brass is how long do you want to put with a Administration stooge masquerading as an objective journalist hosting your premier Sunday talk show and are you willing to follow in the tracks of MSNBC. NBC and CBS?

Though I did not like Daschle much when he was Senate Majority Leader, I think he was the right choice for HHS and would have been good for the country; he actually knows HHS. His apparently voluntary withdrawal either tells us a lot about his character (good) or something worrisome about Obama’s (no stomach for a fight). Obama should have asked him to fight through this – our betters at NYT notwithstanding.
Let’s be realistic – not paying taxes on some phantom car service income is not a capital crime, just human nature. I would rather have people sitting in the highest offices who have been humbled a bit than people who truly know they are no different than the rest of us, but have escaped criticism.

You know why Democrats want tax increases? Easy! They don’t pay any.

The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget

Georgie Stephanopolous, Spin Conduit.

Typical of Democrats: Do as I say, not as I do. They scream like stuck pigs when they get caught disobeying the law. Poor Daschle did not have the stomach for the fight? Classic Beltway-speak for not having enough votes to get the nomination.
Tommy we hardly knew ye!

George S.=Another compromised psuedo journalist.
MRC’s Bozell Urges Action on Stephanopoulos
By NB Staff | February 2, 2009 – 17:01
Last week, Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell issued a statement expressing displeasure with “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos, who, reported the January 27 edition of Politico, has daily message and strategy chats with Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel and fellow Clinton administration alumni James Carville and Paul Begala. [click here]
The Media Research Center’s MRCAction.org quickly took action, working with its grassroots members to present ABC News with a recusal petition (accessible here) and by informing members how they can call ABC News to complain about Stephanopoulos conflict of interest.
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ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos is engaged in daily private phone briefings with Obama Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel.
He then presents himself as a credible journalist and nonpartisan commentator in reporting about the administration. Such a move crosses journalistic lines, is a clear conflict of interest and must be stopped immediately.
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The Media Research Center is calling on MRC Action Team members to email Stephanopoulos, David Westin, the President of ABC News and Westin’s boss, Anne Sweeney, Co-Chairman of Disney, and Sweeney’s bosses, ABC/Disney’s Board of Directors, demanding an immediate end to this obvious conflict of interest.
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Thanks for the info! I just signed it and encourage others who demand truth over propaganda to sign up.

Glad to see this dirtbag go. BTW what about the $80k of unreported salary from a hedge fund consulting gig? That sounds like a better reason than cancer in the family (which by the way is bad and my smypathy goes to Daschle’s brother).
Anyways, Daschle is done with. Next on deck is the grand pork “stimulus” nonsense – the brainchild of messiah and Pelosi.

If this is the best news conservatives have had in several years, that says a lot about the poor condition they’re in.

Daschle should not have been nominated for this position because of his multi-million dollar consulting work (AKA lobbying) with the health care industry. We can’t expect someone who works for the industry to reform the same industry. I’m disappointed in the naivete of the Obama team to have tried to install Daschle into this job. His tax issues are nearly irrelevant compared to this basic prerequisite for the job.

I will say what the MSM will not write or say ” Tom Daschle is a tax cheat”

Dorothy…Close you eyes, click your heels together twice and say “there’s no place like Illinois…there’s no place like Illinois”.
I’m sure they were the ooooonly ones in the wwwwwwworld who were qualified for the jobs. They are also weally…weally…. sawwwy..sorry they are getting caught.
Really George…did Rahm Emmanuel proof read your script today.

George are you getting any pay from the White House or it’s affiliates for the job you do for them…because that would change your title from unbiased reporter to “White House consultant to Rahm Emmanuel Chief of Staff.”

I have nothing to say about the story, but I must confess that I am excited about the high number of comments I have read. Is it possible that America is waking up and realizing that our country is being governed by a bunch yahoos?

Why does no one realize that our economy was doing great until about 6 months after the the Dem congress took control in Jan 2007. Nothing but downhill ever since! When will our country wake up/
Plus, did you see the interview on Oprah where they cut to George S who was on a screen behind her. George’s wife was on with Oprah at the time and was telling her that George cried when he was at the election HQ for ABC and they announced Obama won! The show continued and all of them including George gushed at how great it was for our country and the best ever election outcome in history!
Isn’t that sweet!!!!!

Dr Howard Dean is in order, he would be my first choice for Health and Human Services Secretary.

George needs to go the way of Daschle and step down as a “reporter” for ABC. His liberal media collusion with the Obama administration should not be taken lightly.

P.S. You are such a flippin’ partisan George Steph – It makes me sick – true journalism is so dead..

George S. writes:
The Administration was appearing to set one standard for its allies, and another for the rest of Washington.
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Where I come from we call it HYPOCRISY……………………but then again that is the modus operandi of the left. The times they are a changing???

Never mind Daschle. The real story is that GS has lost all credibility as a journalist from rading these comments.
ABC needs to deal with this before things get worst.

I hope his brother makes out ok, sometimes brain cancer can be dealt with in a positive way. His brother is lucky he is in America, and not one of those countries with universal health insurance, but devoid of actual healthcare.Don’t worry Tom he has a chance here with the greatest system in the history of the world. If you wanna pay back the doctors and nurses and others who help, do something to keep the savages of the trial bar from destroying them.

George as a journalist is a joke, does he think we are all stupid (some of us overcame our liberal brainwashing in public schools).
Daschle – typical lear jet liberal
Obama – one termer
American public – suckers for falling for this crap. Change, hope, yes we can, right….

I’m sorry, I’m just still reeling from Steve’s idea that somehow the gloves against the Republicans just came off.
It’s so nice to know that they’ve been playing patty cake with the Republicans up until now.
He would have made such a good government official…blah blah blah. That’s like saying, he would have been a great validictorian if the school hadn’t been a stickler about not cheating.
I’m also tired of the new spin from the WH that the people they pick are the sole individuals on the face of the Earth with all of the answers and the only ones capable of rescuing us.
It’s silly. So Dems. Pay your taxes like the rest of us and you too can decide if maybe, just maybe, you’ld like to pay less.

how could someone write an article on this subject and not use the word “taxes”

I am enjoying reading the attempted defense of the liberals here. LOL. I would feel better about Obama if he had actually asked Daschle to drop out instead of defending yet another tax cheat.

What about John Edwards?
He gets over the bar in the Obama vetting process doesn’t he?

George: did you write this piece of spinning or did you get it faxed straight from the White House?

This is too bad. He was the right pick for the job.. I pray will can get health care reform now..

Now that 3 of the selections for appointed posts in the Obama camp have not paid their taxes, what’s next? The hard working Americans struggle to pay taxes and if they are behind, the IRS levies their pay and property.
They would have gone on forever if not caught now. The IRS needs to be much more lenient on the American tax payer.

1. Welcome to a very light version of what you Dems did to Bush for 8 years.
2. Stephanopolous is a hack, he is a Clintonite, so that assumption is a given, he’s covering up somewhat with this article. Admit the least offenses and neglect the worst.
3. Dems, stop committing crime and Republicans will stop calling you on it. It’s as simple as that.

George S, you hack,
Daschle dropped out because there are even more things under the rug, things that were preparing to come to light. He was told, simply, drop out or be tarred and feathered.
You are a shameless POS Obama enabler, plain and simple.
Do you also consider taxpaying as voluntary, George? It seems to be a demonrantic illness, this ‘forgetting’ to pay one’s taxes.
You hack.
p.s. Your glasses are even uglier than Daschole’s.

I’m so sad and have been upset all day. I’ve watched Tom Daschle for years and been impressed with his wisdom, political savy and public service. I was thrilled he would lead healthcare reform. I’m really distressed he will not guide US in that battle against the powerful entrenched interests and fear for the success of essential healthcare reform this nation must enact for our future economic and social well-being. The Enwrong Republicans wouldn’t wink if one of theirs had a tax problem. They are such a hypocritical, repugnant lot.

Over the past several years, it seems ethics violations only matter if you are a republican. I am surprised Daschle withdrew since the other tax cheat was confirmed as head of the Treasury.

George, you are as bad as Mr. Gibbs and Rahm Emanuel and the rest of the CHICAGO Crooks and Liars.
Hey George, lets see your taxes ???
Put em out there and let us take a look.
You are just as crooked as the rest of your buddies and you know it.
Shame in you for trying to excuse all these crooks an liars. Shame on you.

hey Georgie did you get that quote
“He didnt have the stomach for a fight”
from your unethical conference calls with Rahm Emanuel every morning?
You are a propagandist in the employ of Obama, ABC is a disgrace for not firing you.

“I think that about sums up Republican’s relevance. They view not reporting as income a free car service with people who lost literally trillions of dollars while pocketing billions of dollars in bonuses and engineering the collapse of the world financial markets.”
jhw539,
It in NOT just about a free car service. You should know that!
“The back taxes plus $12,000 in interest and penalties involved unreported consulting fees, questionable charitable contributions, and a car and driver provided by a private equity firm run by entrepreneur and longtime Democratic Party donor Leo Hindery Jr., according to a “confidential draft” report prepared by Senate Finance Committee staff.”
“Also, the financial disclosure form Daschle filed about a week ago shows that he made more than $200,000 in the past two years speaking to members of the industry that President Barack Obama wants him to reform.”
This one is a DIRECT CONFLICT with Obama’s OWN ETHICS RULES!
From Obama’s Own Site…
“Close the Revolving Door on Former and Future Employers: No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.”
There was more than the “mistake” on the taxes that made Daschle a major ethics issue for Obama.
This goes to his inexperience in assembling a goverment. He was the one who laid down these rules. He should have thought a bit longer & deeper about the real impact of those rules.
If you want to pull in someone with experience in certain field or industry to help your Presidency, you should be writing ethics rules that outright prohibit it!

Gee George, did you get this softball story from your daily conference call with the still avoiding prosecution in chicago Raum Emanuel?

Things look really strange right now. I am beginning to fear the close relationship between the “News reporters” and the Whitehouse.

It is now time to start weeding out the media. George needs to go. There is no way he can give an unbiased report on anything going on in Washington. You know there was no way he was not going to be a part of this “historic” administration. If that is how he rolls…..it is time to show him how we roll. OUR turn to do some layoffs, starting with you George.

Although, the name of the game is hits, not content, so maybe they’re buddies. Who knows. Drudge is a freak, so nothing would surprise me. You know those Republicans and their closets.

Bob22 – That was spot on.
Only thing Dems are interested in is when the next hand out will be coming their way. This country has truly lost it’s way. George S. and the rest of the “so called” journalist have sold their souls to satan himself.

Hey Half-wit – They voted in 2008 or did you forget.

Your the half-wit. Those on “welfare” did vote in 2008,

Dr. Howard Dean is the obvious choice.
Medical Doctor. Established universal heath care for children in Vermont. Administrative experience as Governor and DNC Chair.

Lay off. Georgie-Boy has our back.
He’s out there spinning for the administration. Looks like he sold out his integrity and any claims to being a
impartial journalist just to provide the liberal spin for the benefit of his fellow democrats.
We should be thanking him. To sell out one’s integrity must be like selling a piece of one’s soul.
Back-off everyone.

We could pay for the stimulus package by simply collecting the taxes Democrats don’t pay.

The Republicans can pay their taxes because they are sticking it to the working man. Look at Bush and Cheyney. I am sure they lined their pockets before they left. Nothing but a bunch of crimimals on the right side of the aisle.

Sorry first for the bad english, but this is what i think President Obama should say instead and also what have not been said regarding the Stimulus Bill so far.
President Sarkosy of France said about PM Brown of England that he ruined his country but cutting taxes, it didn’t work and it broke the entire UK economy , and now they are in a serious recession, you bet Brown did not like it, but they did that because their economy is essentially based on the banking system and consumer spending and they have very little if not less factories, manufacturies, i mean not much of industrial sector to stimulate, but unfortunately for him (Brown), it was just the truth. Sarkosy says instead he would build bridges, hospitals, schools, revive the automobile industry, invest in science and technology, education, and that at the end of the tunnel what you have are assets, something upon which you can build up.
So instead of President Obama saying if my plan doesn’t work you will have a new president as he said last night, he should say that if my plan doesn’t work, we will have assets : new schools, secure bridges, best water system, best hospitals but also assets in the people: which means better educated people, more competitive in this new technology era, more healthy because of a much improved heath system, better formed people because of investment in technology and so on…, those things that we don’t have now.
And of Course this would create jobs, because you need teachers, workers,… to achieve that.
As president Sarkosy said, if you give tax cut to someone now, he would not spend because he is scared for his job because of the bad economy, he would keep that money for bad times in case he loose his job, in contrary if we invest in infrastructure and people, we have tangible assets but we also have assets in the people themselves.
So we wiil be better off than we are now, better armed with those assets to look forward in the future if the economy does not improve and remains as it is now.
So here no gamble, in the worst case scenario we have the most important in our people and for us.