O'S ETHICS 'EXCEPTIONS' (Change? None that seems to matter)

NY POST ^ | 2/3/09 | EDITORIAL

[Liz]

Does the Dems' party platform require their top dogs to have tax problems? Tom Daschle failed to pay more than $120,000 in taxes ....and raked in a staggering $5.2 million from the health-care industry which he'd regulate.........tax delinquencies of Treasury Secy Timothy Geithner and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rangel make you wonder whether these guys have any shame at all.

[Liz]

Candidate Daschle made a big deal in campaign ads that he drove an old beat-up car. Now people find out he gets chauffered around---tax-free---while working class taxpayers struggle to feed their families.

TOM AND LINDA

S.D. MANSION (there's also a D.C. estate where the Daschles held fund-raisers for Hillary).

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All of the following report is copyrighted © 2003 Talon News which reserves all rights.

On June 10, 2003, the New York Times reported on a $20 billion Pentagon plan to lease air refueling tankers from the Boeing Company. The newspaper cited that liberal and conservative groups opposed to the arrangement called it a "sweetheart deal" that must be approved by Congress.

The article pointed out that Boeing has hired lobbyist Linda Daschle, the wife of the Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) to represent the company.

South Dakota's largest newspaper, the Argus Leader, is not reporting the story. In fact, the Argus Leader never prints a story about the lobbying of Linda Daschle. In recent weeks, Executive Editor Randell Beck has been quoted as saying that this is because the Argus Leader doesn't report on the wives of candidates.

The Argus Leader did write a 1995 editorial critical of Marianne Gingrich, wife of the House Speaker, Republican Newt Gingrich, for taking a position with Israel Export Development Company. The newspaper wrote, "The spouses of U.S. leaders should be held to a high standard: Not only should they avoid impropriety, they should avoid all appearances of impropriety."

In 1990, the South Dakota newspaper published a thirty-six paragraph article about Harriet Pressler, wife of Republican Sen. Larry Pressler that suggested the senator had used his office to help his wife's real estate business. By contrast, the recent purchase of a $2 million Washington, DC home by Sen. Daschle and his wife is mentioned by the paper in only five sentences.

Last week, South Dakota businessman Neal Tapio accused the Argus Leader and its political reporter David Kranz of covering up a long association between the senator and Kranz that goes back 30 years. The Argus Leader has refused to acknowledge or disclose that relationship. Tapio implies that the newspaper's reporting has been skewed in favor of the powerful senator and against his critics.

Linda Daschle's lobbying has long been a source of potential conflict of interest issues. Her firm's clients include American Airlines, a recent recipient of billions in taxpayer funds to keep the company in business. Another client, L-3 International, a manufacturer of baggage screening equipment, won a lucrative contract from the Federal Aviation Administration in 2000.

Mrs. Daschle had been an official with the FAA before joining the lobbying firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman and Caldwell.

None of this makes it to the pages of the Argus Leader. Even the Daschles' refusal to make their income tax returns public didn't get a notice from the same publication that aggressively pursued Harriet Pressler a decade ago.

When Kranz was with the Mitchell Daily Republic in 1982, he wrote an opinion piece that praised Mr. Daschle for releasing his income tax returns and criticized his opponent Clint Roberts for not doing so. Kranz wrote, "We believe it is the obligation of a candidate to produce the financial health as represented in his federal income tax returns."

Kranz has yet to call for the release of the Daschles' returns that would reveal a combined income estimated at $6 million.

[Ann Archy]

It’s pretty obvious that TAX CHEATING is COMMON amongst DEMOCRATS!!! Obama had MANY, MANY people to choose from and he KNEW about the TAX CHEATING......hmmmmm....is Obama CHEATING on HIS TAXES??

[bushfamfan]

Republicans are driven in shame from positions for far less and here are the Demonrats, who love to tell us how we should all pay more and more taxes, involved in tax cheating. These people clearly show they are the elite and think they have a different set of rules. It’s time for a collective outrage and these people need to be hounded daily so the public is aware and never forgets this. This is huge and the reality of what Demonrats are.

[The Duke]

Does the Dems' party platform require their top dogs to have tax problems?

In the Dem's defense, they will take the occasional pedophile.

[jwparkerjr]

For shame to drive someone from office or to materially affect their behavior that shame must be on their part, perceived by them, not those making the accusations. Because the Left knows no shame it's simply not effective to attempt them to shame them into anything. It's not unlike telling atheists that God is saddened by their lack of faith in Him.

While shame is a conservative virtue, it's a liberal’s weapon. Frequently the weapon of choice. Remember, for a weapon to be truly effective it can't be so against the one who wields it but deadly to those on whom it's unleashed. Liberals feel safe using shame, full strength, because they apparently have genetic defenses against it.

[WayneS]

...make you wonder whether these guys have any shame at all.

I don't wonder.

[WayneS]

...so they got THAT goin’ for them... Which is NICE!

[Liz]

Does the Dems' party platform require their top dogs to have tax problems?....... In the Dem's defense, they will take the occasional pedophile.

Hmmmm..... I seem to remember gay-fellater RINO Rooty Guiliani (who marched in a gay parade under the NAMBLA banner) named a pedophile to a top city job.

The guy---Russel Harding----proceeded to loot the city treasury, surfed kiddie porn, took trips with gay friends with city money, and ended up in jail.

However, the perv's father was the Liberal Party honcho that got Rooty elected----so it was OK.

"Tolerance and compassionate" in action.

[Liz]

"Change" has come to Washington.

Obama promised us a "perfect" world....and who better for Treasury Secy than a tax cheat?

Obama's making history everyday. We now have a tax cheat at Treasury who runs the IRS, who has trust over billions of US tax dollars.

Geithner owes the department he now oversees almost $40,000. But was able to escape penalties and interest on $40,000.

Ordinary citizens hounded by the IRS for a small fraction of that amount.........small business owners threatened w/ jail........ in order to extract payment. Penalties and interest often outweigh the original amount owed.

A tax cheat overseeing the IRS is an abomination.

[woollyone]

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