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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Clinton administration coverup?
The NYTimes reports today that prosecutor David M. Barrett, the independent counsel in the investigation into possible Clinton-era coverups involving the IRS, has issued a “scathing report accusing Clinton administration officials of thwarting an inquiry into whether Mr. Cisneros [former HUD Secretary] evaded paying income taxes.” Here’s more:
But it was not widely known that Mr. Barrett believed that Mr. Cisneros’s handling of the payments to the former mistress might have violated tax laws or that he suspected Justice Department and I.R.S. officials of criminal obstruction to help Mr. Cisneros avoid scrutiny. The New York Daily News reported on Wednesday that Mr. Barrett would issue a report alleging a Clinton administration cover-up of Mr. Cisneros’s tax problems.
The report included statements, in appendices, from former Justice Department and I.R.S. officials sharply disputing Mr. Barrett’s assertions. In addition, Barry S. Simon, a lawyer for Mr. Cisneros, said in a letter dated Nov. 8, 2005, and included in the report, “Materials that are now being publicly released are simply an effort to ‘try’ the case that” Mr. Barrett’s office could not win in court.
Mr. Barrett’s 746-page report said that the tax and obstruction phase of the inquiry ended without a definitive conclusion, but it declared: “These agencies’ treatment of possible charges against Cisneros was at best questionable and at worst represented serious wrongdoing. There seems to be no question that Cisneros was given special consideration and more limited scrutiny because of who he was – an important political appointee.”
Read the whole thing, and note the usual suspects’ attempt at discrediting the investigation. Surprise surprise.
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So what’s your solution? Raise taxes and take more of their income?
Bak, you really want to haar the garbage steve has between his ears? I’ll be surprised if he can sugar coat the vile things he wants. I’m not reading his mind, but recalling his various posts.
tommy, that ain’t going to cut it. You were wrong. You are out of bounds here. No one said anything about veterans until you tried to play the victimized vet card. You aren’t taking responsibility for your words nor for your reactions to your words.
tommy, you lose big time on this one.
Yeah right PCD get a clue.
Steve – tommy…. then I take you don’t agree when a leader says things like:
“The leaders of states who would use terrorist means against us, as well as those who would consider using in one way or another weapons of mass destruction, must understand that they would lay themselves open to a firm and adapted response on our part,”
- You both would be saying Bush is out of his mind and warring on people and this is just hawkish rhetoric I suppose. Do you see any reason to the so called war on terror?
- Bang –
I’m a victim too PCD!
Do you want to be one?
We’ll all be one !!!
Now we can justify saying anything we want !
Henry got in trouble as Mayor of San Antonio for messing around on his wife before he joined the Clinton’s in DC.
B-b-b-but I thought the brotherhood of the great Utopian Socialisms had their fingers on the “right and wrong” of the world. Believed in “love thy neighboor and make love not war, and hug your enemy. How the “elites” have seen the “truth” for all the unwashed masses and can deliver us from the evil of ChimpyMcHalliburtonHitlerBush and all the wicked Neocons….. ect ect ect”?????????
- Except….Ummmmmm….. for one tiny detail….
- That quote isn’t by GW Bush….
- That quote, delivered in a speech just this morning is from…..
(wait for it)…..
“Charles Chirac!!!!!”
Heres the link
- Discuss
- Bang
Erm…. make that Jacques… Charles is his nephew….. *snort*
- Bang
Bang,
You smoked the 4:49 commenter with that one.
OK. Bad “smoked” pun.
- Yeh Bak… I had just finished a Krauthammer article…. Think I need a break…. Lefty baiting is fun, but tiring sometimes… *chuckle*
- Bang
- Well well well….Looks like that little girl Haleigh Poutre , of Springfield Mass., whom the social services people were trying so hard to kill, has suddenly shown signs of responding to stimulus, and breathing on her own. Damn… another victim escapes from the “right to kill” people.
- I only hope she makes a full and quick recovery. Heres the link
- Bank
Just think of the world as a bigger wherever you live. Where you live there are a few whack jobs that work their magic so the local cops role them up. The terrorists are like that in the world, some are just common crooks and some are political crooks. Both groups use violence to extort what they want. Every country on earth has terrorists. You cannot kill them out of existence. You can discredit them out of business by being smarter and less brutal. All violence is counter-productive. Peace
- I understand where you’re coming from Steve…I really do…Its a beautiful thought…If we caould all just get along.
- Unfortunately there are people in this world who don’t share your dreams or care about you and your family, beyond any way they can victimize you in some manner.
- I’m assuming you’ve made arrangements with close friends or some other male member of your family to protect your home, with force if neccessary, should anyone attack your property of family members….
- Peace indeed. Tempered by common sense.
- Bang
Tommy- I respect you for admitting that there is a a good chance that just maybe there is some truth to Barretts report.
I will only take issue with this corporate welfare B.S. that I keep seeing. (it is not limited to you) Take a look at the past 2 years IRS receipts from businesses. The receipts have been their highest and that is with Katrina figured in. Businesses create jobs. Businesses paying taxes in the U.S. are vital to our economy.
Tommy, I have more than a clue. I’ve been proven right more times in our jousts. You have been beaten into submission more times than I care to count. You are the one that needs a clue. Too bad you don’t see the number of times you admitted you were wrong as a clue.
Hey I do sort of take issue with Tommy’s insinuation that the mid west has a problem with meth. Alot of the reason that the meth is made here is due to the extreme openess of the countryside. You could easily get lost in the tens of thousands of miles of gravel roads in Iowa alone, and it is impossible to patrol those roads and so mobile meth labs were created to avoid detection. Which shows alot of the problem with law enforcement, be it meth or terrorists, if law enforcement is looking at it, there is a good possibility the criminally minded have adapted. Meth was made in alot of rural homes out here, but not so much anymore as the police started to patrol those homes more and more, so they went mobile. I believe that the actions by both Iowa and Illinois will virtually stop meth production when they made it illegal to buy sinus medication in vast quantities. But like I just said, the criminally minded will adapt one way or another. – Lorica