What Would Obama's Cabinet Be Without A Tax Scammer?

With Turbo Tax Tim Geithner on the way out, Team Obama is casting about for a good diversity pick, to wit, diversity in the area of tax compliance. Rumored Commerce pick Penny Pritzker, a top Obama fund raiser, looks like a great choice.

They told Glenn that if he voted for Romney we'd have tax-dodging billionaires running the Cabinet. But I say, let's continue to have a Cabinet that looks like America!

Comments

[rse]

You may want to cross out the Tax adjective and make scammer plural. Twould be the most accurate statement.

Government exists to enrich us and beggar our adversaries is probably an apt motto these days.

Off to read more of the governments create equality illusion.

[NK]

Stories about Penny Pritzker's ChiTown goings on from MelR in 3...2...

[Dave (in MA)]

So I don't have to quit writing TAX CHEAT on my newer bills?

[hit and run]

TM:
I say, let's continue to have a Cabinet that looks like America!

What George Washington has to say about Obama's cabinet:

[Threadkiller]

Ted Cruz is on now:

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

[Threadkiller]

At IP2P, we've addressed several articles about Patrick Fitzgerald's idea of truth.

However, the piece that may prove to be our most important chronicle is ahead. It involves a book titled Triple Cross.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's attack on investigative reporter and novelist Peter Lance, and his book Triple Cross, was Fitzgerald's war against the truth.

The Department of Justice declared war against the First Amendment when it allowed Fitzgerald to conduct his war on Lance, and on the publisher of his book, from within the U.S. Attorneys Office in Chicago.

Read about Fitzgerald's Attempts to silence Lance here:...

http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2013/02/06/u-s-attorney-patrick-fitzgeralds-war-against-the-truth/

[maryrose]

Jane:
I was at my first job in education in 78 and was making a similar amount of money. We got paid for every snow day so those early morning calls were a real treat. I kept wishing I could have gone away somewhere warmer if I knew ahead of time that we would be out the entire week.

[Neo]

According to Fishbowl DC, newly-installed CNN-chief Jeff Zucker has made or is contemplating a couple of smart moves. Apparently, John King has survived and just renewed his contract. That's the good news.

The great news is that the incorrigibly corrupt Candy Crowley might be headed for the door.

[Jane: Mock the Media]

Maryrose,

WE got paid too. I remember thinking it was a great racket!

[Neo]

The thing about this job, Pres Obama tells House Dems,
"the longer you’re in it - the more humble you get."

[matt]

“The United States military is not and should not be a global 911 service capable of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency around the world,” Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“What difference, at this point, does it make?” Clinton asked during a testy exchange with one Republican.

The President was absent from the discussion and the scene. The firefight lasted 5 hours. The Sec State did nothing. The Pentagon is blaming State for not requesting assistance.

What part of dereliction of duty do these people not understand?

[Rob Crawford]

What part of dereliction of duty do these people not understand?

Duty.

[NK]

RobC/Matt-- I would add,in the 5 months since Benghazi, what actions have the Obamaniacs taken to punish the Jihadis who murdered our Ambassador and the security contractors? Rhetorical question.. we know what they've done.

[maryrose]

matt:
You are absolutely correct. Dereliction of duty is too kind. Treason is a better word in my estimation. Both Clinton and Obama FAILED the 3am call. I bet this hurts Hil's chances in 2016. The election ads write themselves. Her political career is finished. No wonder Bammy wanted this covered up. If people knew he was gabbing on the phone with BiBi so he could send out his minions to woo the Jewish vote while Stevens was being dragged through the streets they would have dumped him in November. This is so horrendous. No surprise that re-election was far more important to him than the lives of 4 patriots. He should be impeached.Panetta is the only one willing to tell the truth. He must feel relieved not to be associated with this band of liars anymore.

[hit and run]

NK:
I would add,in the 5 months since Benghazi, what actions have the Obamaniacs taken to punish the Jihadis who murdered our Ambassador and the security contractors?

Rumor is the efforts to find the real killers are being spearheaded by O.J.

[BB Key]

Already dragged 3 code pinkers from the Brennan heraing and Feinstein is threatening to "clear" the comittee room .

[maryrose]

hit:
You win for comment of the day at2:47.
It is the most appalling thing. Our President and Secretary of State are Totally responsible for completely abandoning their specific duties of office. If this were Bush and Condi all hell woulld have broken loose. I wonder if any of the networks are covering this either now or will this evenin? I am speechless in view of their lack of caring and ineptitude. This was truly a CYA operation from start to finish. Rice is the only one to pay a price.

[maryrose]

What did Brennan know about Benghazi? Was he out of the loop also?

[maryrose]

Thank God we have Cruz asking the REAL questions. I bet Panetta is embarassed by Bammy's subterfuge. He thought Bill Clinton was bad...

[daddy]

Good Morning, TM

Prepare to be outraged. I believe you're from Connecticut, no?

Lincoln Movie Factual Flaw In Slavery Vote:

Spielberg falsely portrays Connecticut's Congressmen as voting against abolishing Slavery instead of their actual votes which were all in favor of abolishing Slavery.

Apparently back then they actually read the Bill before passing it, so that they knew what was in it. What a concept.

And perhaps Manti Teʻo was on the phone for 400 minutes with Dee Dee.

[bgates]

The United States military is not and should not be a global 911 service capable of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency around the world

If we were to rank the likelihoods of literally every emergency that could possibly arise anywhere on the surface of the earth, where on that list would Panetta put an attack
* on a US diplomatic outpost
* in the Middle East
* in a nation in which the US had assisted in the overthrow of an unfriendly dictator earlier in the year
* and which was embroiled in a civil war between the late dictator's faction and Islamists (both hostile to the US)
* given that the diplomatic outpost had been bombed earlier
* twice
* and the ambassador repeatedly communicated concerns over further attacks
* and the diplomatic outpost, the ambassador, and the CIA may have been involved in clandestine weapons transfers to other (nominally) anti-Islamist forces in the region
* and it was the anniversary of the most successful attack on America ever by an Islamist organization that had affiliates in the country and that attached great significance to important dates?

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

The Brennan drooling is telling.

[NK]

bgates@305-- WHAT DOES IT MATTER AT THIS POINT!!!!!!

[NK]

jane-- what is the fordham flash saying... other than drooling of course.

[It was ordained. Mebbe just duty.]

For awhile now, the cop on the beat has been a coalition of the democratic nations. I don't expect that to stop.

The US Navy was on the way to the Indonesian tsunami within hours. The decision took seconds.
====================

[maryrose]

bgates:
I share your outrage.What is our military for if not for protection for our wonderful soldiers and ambassadors overseas?

[daddy]

The corruption never stops: Interior Secretary nominee Sally Jewell received Obamacare waiver for REI

REI CEO Sally Jewell, President Obama’s nominee for Interior Secretary, received an Obamacare waiver in 2011 for her company’s health care coverage for 1,180 employees...

The controversial waivers were issued to select companies after Obama’s health care reform bill passed in 2008,..

Jewell participated in an Obama administration roundtable in 2009 to talk about the benefits of health care reform.

ObamaCare's such a great Program that she got a special waiver to avoid having to comply with it.

[NK]

Scratch REI off the e-retail list.

[pagar]

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/07/general-dempsey-surprised-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-about-cable-from-benghazi-consulate/

"General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared to be unaware that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified that she did not see a cable from Ambassador Christopher Stevens in August of 2012 in which the late ambassador warned the consulate in Benghazi was not safe from attack."

Not reassuring!

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

--in the 5 months since Benghazi, what actions have the Obamaniacs taken to punish the Jihadis who murdered our Ambassador and the security contractors?--

Well, they got that one guy down in LA tossed in jail over it.
Who says the law enforcement approach doesn't work with terrorism?

[Gus]

Matt. Benghazi never happened. No one died, except the guy with the GIANT BALLS. If you see placating muzztards as DUTY, there the only derelict was the former Seal lighting up the Muzztards with his laser.
And he waited,and he waited and he waited, UNTIL, he got lit up. BIG TIME.

Nothing was done, no one is responsible, Opie went to Vegas for campaign cash, and 4 Americans were murdered.

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE. HOPE AND CHANGE!!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

[NK]

Ig that's very clever, but I still can't laugh. I am spitting mad over the fact we have an anti-american CinC who'll get many more Americans killed before this is over.

[Old Lurker]

3 AM calls?

No problemo.

LUN

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

My goodness, the Rockefellor filibuster is embarrassing.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Uh oh. Nobody tell DoT, but Breitbart has detected a Republican Establishment and even named a member; Karl Rove.
Just another delusional conservative, I guess.

[centralcal]

Jane: I like John Podhoretz's recap of it:

Rockefeller: 20,000 word question
Brennan: Yes

[Gus]

3AM CALL: Hello this is Barack Hussein, I can't get to the phone right now, but if you leave your CREDIT CARD NUMBER, my campaign will get back to you. Allahu Akbar. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

[pagar]

Recalling 2008 thoughts from Scary Larry:

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/6590/obama-considering-the-mother-of-failed-sub-prime-lenders-for-secretary-of-commerce-position/

What has changed? IMO, every thing has gotten worse.

[NK]

Grifters hang with other grifters.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

That nails it CC.

[Beasts of England]

daddy@3:13 - Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

The Keystone XL debacle apparently wasn't enough insult to Canada by Barry.
Caroline Kennedy next US-Canuck ambassador?

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Carl Levin spending 8 minutes on the horrors of waterboarding - but loving those drones!

[lyle]

I don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere that the two ex-SEALs reportedly took out over sixty jihadis before they got killed. I so want to believe this is true.

I know it's considered gauche to reveal one's charitable giving but I sent a C-note to the Ty Woods Memorial Fund to support his wife and kids. I will send the same amount if anyone knows if there is one for his brother in arms.

[NK]

Caroline is lame but not an insult. Sending that scumbag, Chavez-loving, worthless POS, toady Joe Kennedy would have been an insult.

[lyle]

You know, I, you know, would like to, you know, express my...uh, you know, gratitude for the opportunity to, you know, be an ambassador to, you know, that country to our, you know, north. [sotto voce to aide: What is its name again?] Yes, an ambassador to, you know, Canada.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Were I a Canadian I would consider the appointment of a moron as the US ambassador an insult.

That her sleezy, slimy, corrupt moron cousin would be an even bigger insult is neither here nor there. :)

[Rob Crawford]

Carl Levin spending 8 minutes on the horrors of waterboarding - but loving those drones!

It is apparently better in the minds of the left to gag on your own blood as you die than to gag as a reflex under controlled, and safe, circumstances.

[jimmyk]

Speaking of sleezy, slimy corrupt moron cousins, I had the misfortune of running across drug-addled slut Kerry Kennedy on CNN last night consorting with Piers Morgan over how important it is to pass "gun control" legislation. She seemed genuinely drugged and robotic, but that's above average for a Kennedy.

[lyle]

Good point, Rob. Waterboarding can be called off and its effects overcome. Hellfire strikes can be called off, too, I guess but their effects are a bit more permanent.

[NK]

Well Caroline's grand daddy did "import" that Canadian Club libation.

[Porchlight]

Another major difference - you can avoid waterboarding entirely by giving up the info voluntarily.

I guess the same could be said of drones if the person in question turns themselves in to authorities.

[narciso]

Happy birthday, JiB, I was going to recommend the Tey book, about Richard 111,who seems to have gotten as raw a deal from Thomas More and the bard, as Machiavelli did for Caterina Sforza.

I'm reminded with the Lance/Fitzgerald affair, how it resembles what a certain overzealous cop , Michele Guittari, did to a reporter, Mario Spezi, re the Monster of Florence

[jimmyk]

Another difference is that waterboarding doesn't usually take out innocents or allies, as the drone did with Jaber.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

I can't believe how lackadaisical Brennan was about letting the Benghazi suspect go free. "NO big deal".

[pagar]

http://www.glendohertyfoundation.org/

Check Out Glen's Latest Book!
Navy Seal Sniper, An Intimate Look at the Sniper of the 21st Century - Written by: Brandon Webb & Glen Doherty

Should be a great read!

[Porchlight]

Happy birthday, JiB!

[lyle]

Thanks, pagar! I knew someone would come through.

[Jim Eagle]

Forget Margaritaville, you need to visit Obamaville.

Lead vocal by DuDa and back ups by BuBu and KaKa.

I know it's corny but so is the full court press we are getting without even fighting back. And I mean with pitchforks, schytes and even gibbets.

[Rob Crawford]

Rumors flying that Hagel won't disclose his finances because of funds received from "Friends of Hamas".

Obama is perplexed; he spoke at their dinner and it's never been a problem for him.

[MarkO]

Oh, hell. What difference does it make?

[Beasts of England]

Happy birthday, JiB!

[Jim Eagle]

Hate to disagree with NK as a valued on line compatriot and friend but: I have been a member of REI since 1972.

I have bought all my backpacking, snow gear, camping, skiing and biking gear from them for years. They are the most complete, knowledgeable company in the world much less America on outdoor equipment, survival and sports enjoyment. No one does it better but a lot like to emulate them.

I have so many maps, books, tools, equipment, gadgets, etc. from them that if I added up all the cost it would be in the 10's of thousands. Anyone with an intertest in hiking, backpacking, camping, climbing, skiing, biking etc. has probably had some experience with REI.

So what their CEO is a Obamaite? So are a lot of business leaders and icons of invention like Jobs. Are we going to boycott Apple, Citi, GE, and Hyatt and live on Chicken sandwiches and doing model building?

[Jim Eagle]

BoE,

Thanks and congratrs in getting the Numero Uno NSD class for 2013. I thought the Gators would score big since they were ranked number one but you dirty Pachyderms passed them.

Next year:)

/OSU thinks they are in the same league. Good luck with that.

[rse]

It continues to appear to me that the Common Core is actually a scam to change mindsets in the sort of way Vladimer and Joe and Leonid always dreamed of.

http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/mandating-global-citizenship-mindsets-by-assessing-whether-students-adopt-social-altruism/

A prof was trying to block what was really going on with global citizenship as an ideology in education. Not only did I know he was lying on several points but he cited a woman who I recognized as being really close to the line on funding terrorists.

Bad move. He is where I got the wonderful quote about Barber. Once I knew article existed I was able to find a copy of what is supposed to have been cleansed from the Internet.

Justice oriented citizens is definitely the sort of thing that would have drawn in Ayers. This is very Maoist thuggery.

Or Chicago.

[glasater]

I thought "At this point what does it matter" said she had spoken with BOzo later but during the Benghazi attacks?

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Most of my rock climbing gear came from REI back in the 70s and 80s but their prices didn't seem competitive to me in the 90's so I kind of quit shopping there for much of anything.
Have they come back to reality?

[lyle]

So what their CEO is a Obamaite? So are a lot of business leaders and icons of invention like Jobs. Are we going to boycott Apple, Citi, GE, and Hyatt and live on Chicken sandwiches and doing model building?

Agreed. My wife would NEVER give up our Costco membership.

[Threadkiller]

Feinstein has made it clear that al-Awlaki was not the kind of American that would make other Americans proud, suggesting that that is reason enough to have killed him.

Maybe "pride" will be the litmus test for our immigration reform.

[Jim Eagle]

Iggy,

REI quality was always ahead. I mean the Whitaker brothers founded the company for that reason. I have not seen the quality go low but that is a reason for pricing IMO.

[narciso]

She's big into 'sustainability' that words that sets both rse, and me, among others, chattering, she used to work for Mobil, but we can 'read the tea leaves' and bet she's not going to be for opening OCS, it's not in her nature, otherwise she wouldn't have been picked,

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Agreed JiB and one tends not to scrimp on things like, you know, ropes and carabiners but most of them were made by Kraut and Swiss firms not REI and when I started seeing identical equipment for much less at other retailers I kind of lost my REI buzz.
I think it was a pair of Raichle boots for about 50% more than I could get them somewhere else that put the final nail in the coffin.
I guess my loyalty gene is atrophied. :)

[Neo]

Obama 11/21/2011: "I will veto ANY attempt to prevent the sequester."

Obama 10/22/2012: “The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.”

[Jim Eagle]

From Iowahawk:

"Writing a manifesto doesn't necessarily mean you're insane. Writing a manifesto praising @piersmorgan probably does."

I take it everyone has been following the search for the cop killer who loves Obama and Piers Morgan.

[narciso]

Well he may just be misunderstood, sarc;

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/02/07/Concerned-Law-Enforcement-Veteran-Speaks-His-Mind

[Rob Crawford]

"Writing a manifesto doesn't necessarily mean you're insane. Writing a manifesto praising @piersmorgan probably does."

He also calls Margaret Cho "beautiful".

[Rob Crawford]

I'm feeling a bit guilty for cracking jokes over this LA nutcase. For one, he's killing people. For another, the LAPD has such piss-poor fire discipline they've shot three people out of mistaken identity.

[Jim Eagle]

Rob,

And not one word in the MSM as to who this guy really is and what his "manifesto" says.

[maryrose]

Too bad all these whack-a-doodle's seem to love Obama. He attracts strange people to himself.Perhaps because he is so unlike the rest of us.

[MarkO]

Yes. He really is unlike the rest of us, even those who love him.

[pagar]

Do leftists really believe?
If you scrub it, it never happened.

"News Media Scrub Cop Murderer’s Manifesto of Pro-Obama, Hillary, MSNBC, CNN, Gay, and Anti-Gun Comments"

http://www.soopermexican.com/2013/02/07/news-media-scrub-cop-murderers-manifesto-of-pro-obama-pro-hillary-loved-msnbc-pro-gay-and-anti-gun-comments/

[narciso]

Reminds me of this fellow;

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7c3_1249582446

[narciso]

'Rebecca' who seems to be the real life, Maya, from the Bergen book, has to be apoplectic;

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/02/07/brennan-wont-confirm-panetta-s-claim-enhanced-interrogations-led-us-b

[Extraneus]

So what their CEO is a Obamaite? So are a lot of business leaders and icons of invention like Jobs. Are we going to boycott Apple, Citi, GE, and Hyatt and live on Chicken sandwiches and doing model building?

What difference does it make if we reward people who hate us and fund our enemies with our own money?

[Jack is Back! (On his iPad)]

So, Ex, tell me your sanitized shopping list? Where do you shop? Where do you bank? What car do you buy and drive?

[narciso]

Flexibility, is an amazing thing, isn't it;

http://traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/i99ht_047_Tremble.html

And having Hagel having received pelf from Georgia's puppet president, priceless.

[Jack is Back! (On his iPad)]

Anyone a chess player?

Can Bishops defeat Kings?

You bet they can.

[narciso]

I heard a snippet of this on Rush;

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/02/07/Dr-Carson-Prayer-Breakfast-Speech-That-Slams-Obama-Debt-Right-In-Front-Of-Him

[Threadkiller]

From the manifesto:

You never questioned the fact that his former opponent, the honorable Senator John McCain, was not born in the CONUS..

This guy is nuts.

[narciso]

In other news, I noticed David Einhorn is doing probing maneuvers against Apple, you can almost hear the theme from Jaws, in the background,

[narciso]

I think I read that right;

http://in.news.yahoo.com/greenlights-einhorn-sues-apple-says-cash-problem-145757012--sector.html

[Beasts of England]

JiB@5:19 - A fine bunch of athletes, it appears. Although if I remember correctly, that Mark Ingram guy was only a three-star recruit! Certainly would be a tough job to assess talent in such young and still-growing cubs. And then you have to figure out how much to pay them...

[Threadkiller]

Speaking of nuts...

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2013/02/motion-filed-obama-defenders-shakedown-linda.html?m=1

[Extraneus]

"So what" was what I was commenting on, Jack.

[Jim Eagle]

Ex ? What are you saying?

[narciso]

Honestly, sometimes one needs a scrub brush, to get the stench of from these people;

http://twitchy.com/2013/02/07/disturbing-supporters-admirers-leap-to-alleged-murderer-christopher-dorners-defense/

[Jim Eagle]

Night to all from Jazz and Bandit:

You might not see Bandit.

[Ann]

Happy belated birthday, JIB!

Looks like my daughter is going to be a Cincinnati Bearcat. (Unless, we all move to Jane's island)

I can't tell you all how disgusted I am at what is going on. God, help us.

Cute, dogs!

[Threadkiller]

Rep. Susan Davis announced Thursday that she has joined fellow Democratic Congress members in introducing a constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on campaigns.

“We need to restore accountability in our political process,” said Davis, who represents La Mesa, Spring Valley and Lemon Grove in the 53rd District.

“We are supposed to have a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The integrity of our democracy is at stake when corporations can drown out the voices of the people in our elections.”

She said the Citizens United case “opened the floodgates to unrestricted special interest campaign spending in American elections—permitting corporations to spend unlimited funds, directly or through third parties and political action committees organized for those purposes, to influence federal elections and opened the door for the emergence of super PACs...”

http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/rep-susan-davis-joins-effort-to-overturn-citizens-united-decision-on-campaign-spending

[daddy]

Rereading my link above about TM's Connecticut Congressman upset about Spielberg's "Lincoln" Movie being inaccurate, I came across this quote from the Congressman and thought it comical:

“But in a movie based on significant real-life events — particularly a movie about a seminal moment in American history so closely associated with Doris Kearns Goodwin and her book, ‘Team of Rivals’ — accuracy is paramount.” Ha!

Watching O'Reilly just this instance, it looks like Rove has his white board out and is doing damage control.