Tax cheater in charge of IRS??

[Winehole23]

Oh really? What about checks and balances? And you might refresh my memory - how did the Dems handle Bush's appointees? That's right - they blocked them every chance they got!!

Really? My brief googling search shows about 10% of Bush's judicial nominees rejected. That may be a comparatively high ratio for all I know, but it's hardly "every chance."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Dec12.html

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200504/041105b.html

As for Cabinet appointees rejected, I find only Linda Chavez and Bernard Kerik for GWB . Twice that number were withdrawn under Clinton: Zoe Baird, Lani Guinier, Bobby Ray Inman and Anthony Lake.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer

[jack sommerset]

This is so simple. A guy is interviewing for a job. His job is head of the IRS. For whatever reason he does not pay his own taxes you go interview someome else.

Ok, it was a accident. Thats what I am going to say when HIS employees ask me why I did not pay my 2008 taxes. I highly doubt they will have pity on me. Our country is ed up and people are actually defending this guy. Noone is saying put the guy in jail. Look for another job.

[Winehole23]

This is so simple. A guy is interviewing for a job. His job is head of the IRS. For whatever reason he does not pay his own taxes you go interview someome else.

This is a highly respectable take, but it probably won't win the day. Why not?

I'm not exactly sure.

[doobs]

Really? My brief googling search shows about 10% of Bush's judicial nominees rejected. That may be a comparatively high ratio for all I know, but it's hardly "every chance."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Dec12.html

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200504/041105b.html

As for Cabinet appointees rejected, I find only Linda Chavez and Bernard Kerik for GWB . Twice that number were withdrawn under Clinton: Zoe Baird, Lani Guinier, Bobby Ray Inman and Anthony Lake.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer

I will say the Democratic opposition to Bush's judicial appointments was almost unprecedented--except by Democrats in years past, because they are so scared of Roe v. Wade being overturned. In other words, because they disagree with the views of conservative judges, not because they doubt their qualifications.

[Winehole23]

We don't need this. I had questions on Geithner because of his background anyway. Does anyone realize this guy is an elbow-grease economist? He doesn't have the credentials for the position! Why did President Obama nominate him?

Because he's a former branch president for the Fed. The banks wanted him, so they'll get him.




"But Daddy! I want an Oompa- Loompa now!"

[Winehole23]

[SnakeBoy]

Kinda reminds me of Ben Linus.

[Winehole23]

I will say the Democratic opposition to Bush's judicial appointments was almost unprecedented--except by Democrats in years past, because they are so scared of Roe v. Wade being overturned. In other words, because they disagree with the views of conservative judges, not because they doubt their qualifications.

Ebenezer Hoar's nomination to the SC was rejected because he had the temerity to suggest to US Senators that judges ought to be qualified in the first place.

My point is that deference to qualifications may serve fairness and comity, but it sounds a little silly to suggest political considerations oughtn't to enter into political appointments. How else do you keep someone with an objectionable character or programme out of government? Or get your cronies in?

[ClingingMars]

destroy the IRS

-Mars