RSSWhat is it With Obama Democratic Cabinet Nominees and Not Paying Taxes, First Geithner Now Daschle
There are now three certainties … Nothing is certain but DEATH, TAXES and Democrats 
will get a free pass and a Cabinet position after having not paid their taxes. Obama choice for Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle has not paid his taxes either? Does anyone not see a real issues with this and a double standard? Think the IRS will be so generous and understanding to you?
A funny thing has happened on the way to Barack Obama choosing his Presidential Cabinet, he is finding that this superior intellect Democrats have not paid their taxes. This time it’s Heath and Human Secretary designate Tom Daschle who has not paid taxes to the IRS. The tax issue was learned by the White House during the vetting process of Daschle. He recently filed amended tax returns to report $128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 interest.
Most of the additional taxes resulted from unreported income from the use of a car service provided him by a close friend and business associate, Leo Hindery Jr. The unreported income for that service totaled more than $250,000 over three years.
Daschle also had unreported consulting income of $88,333, in 2007. He also had reductions to charitable contributions totaling about $15,000 over the three years covered, according to the Senate Finance Committee document. The document, marked “Confidential Draft,” is a committee statement concerning Daschle’s nomination.
In the past such an embarrassing hit as being a tax cheat would have been fatal to a nominee; however, not when the Obamamessiah has chosen you and is committed to your nomination. Once again we are learning that there are a different set of rules for Democrats.
Posted January 31, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, Bizarre, Corruption, Government, Politics, WTF | 26 comments |
Back on The Market: Drew Peterson Dumped by Christina Raines
DREW PETERSON IS BACK ON THE MARKET AND AVAILABLE!!!
If you can get past how anyone can find this guy remotely engaging, you are probably 
one of those, “There’s a lid for every pot” people. That being said, if your singles profile has the box checked for: man most likely to be a murderer and indicted soon, then you will be glad to know Drew Peterson is up for grabs again.
Christina Raines, 24, mother of 2 and waitress in Bolingbrook, Ill was given an ultimatum by her Daddy. Ernie Raines came to Peterson’s home Friday morning with a news crew and the police and demanded that his daughter leave. She returned the ring ,cell phone and with any luck her common sense. While it is a better exit strategy than Kathleen Savio and Stacy Peterson got, I am at a loss as to who would risk a trip in the big blue barrel for this *person*.
Christina’s Father is to be commended. I don’t even care if he got paid to do it. She’s out, in one piece as were her children; crisis averted for now.
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Hearing Today in the Casey/Caylee Anthony Case
Casey Anthony seen smiling in court today:
1. VISIT CRIME SCENE - APPROVED
The hearing began at 8:35am with Judge Stan Strickland quickly supporting the defense’s motion to gain access to the scene where Caylee’s remains were found. Sheaffer told Eyewitness News the defense team’s insistence on examining the crime scene at this point defies logic.
“I’m some what mystified to find a logical point for this repeated motion to visit the crime scene. It can yield nothing of evidentiary value either to the state or to the defense at this time,” said Sheaffer.
2. OBTAIN TES SEARCH RECORDS/SEARCHER INFO – judge will rule on this afternoon but will likely be denied.
The second motion involved Texas EquuSearch, the group that searched for Caylee Anthony. Baez was seeking more information from the group about their searches. The judge said he would rule Friday afternoon, but said he would deny the motion if Baez couldn’t provide more support for his arguments by noon. A third motion, filed by the state and involving the defense’s witness list, was determined to be moot due to an amended witness list that was provided after the state had already filed their motion.
3. EMERGENCY MOTION TO RECUSE THE PROSECUTORS – DENIED
The final motion involved Baez’s emergency motion to recuse . Baez filed the motion to have prosecutors working on the case thrown off. Baez said the State Attorney’s complaint to the Florida Bar against him was prejudicial and an attempt to interfere with Casey’s right to council.
Will update this afternoon with judges final decision on the TES issue.
UPDATE I: Equusearch motion DENIED
Posted January 30, 2009 by Klaasend Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, Crime, Legal - Court Room - Trial, Texas Equusearch | 177 comments |
Bye, Bye Blago … Illinois Governor Blagojevich Impeached 59-0
Thursday as the Illinois Senate convened to determine Governor Rod Blagojevich’s future there were 3 certainties … death, taxes and that Blago would be impeached. The Illinois Senate did not disappoint as they voted 59–0 to impeach and oust Rod Blagojevich as Governor of Illinois.
The Illinois Senate removed Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich from office Thursday, convicting him on an article of impeachment that alleged a pattern of abuse of power.
The vote, 59 to 0, ended nearly two months of political spectacle in which Mr. Blagojevich, a second-term Democrat who rose from the ranks of Chicago ward politics on the strength of his charisma and the connections of his wife’s family, sought to salvage his career and reputation.
As Blago insisted that he was innocent, committed no crimes and his goal was always to help the people, the Illinois Senate for good measure then passed another vote 59–0 barred Democrat Blagojevich from ever again holding public office in the state.
Posted January 30, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Bizarre, Blagogate, Corruption, Government, Politics, Senate, WTF | 8 comments |
Casey/Caylee Anthony Case: Why we SO Care How Team Baez et al, is Getting Paid
Losing his round of judicial dodge ball has defense attorney to Casey Anthony 
muttering something about mincemeat. “Anonymous” from the State’s attorney’s office, who apparently takes their ethical responsibilities as an officer of the court seriously, filed a complaint against Baez, citing his own spokesperson’s words. Yep, Blink, we are all up to date on that, where ya going with this? Glad you asked. The actual video of Baez stating that Black does work for “us” meaning his defense team, notwithstanding, the potential for a possible conflict of interest on the part of Baez is the 800 lb Gorilla in every law office in Florida.
I have spoken with the two highest profile attorneys in the state who wish to be anonymous for this article. They expressed their sense is that the legal community in general is outraged at the egregious lack of professionalism and mockery of Floridian Jurisprudence Baez is exhibiting with his playground antics. That isn’t the half of it. If there is ANY *whiff* of truth that Baez fees are being paid through an entertainment or rights agreement this needs to investigated immediately. What I am clueless about is why this has not been done already. I have personally been told by people that were in the house or offices when the negotiations and/or discussions were going on about this, that it is true. Get Leo on the horn, call Skip Davis, and ask THEM YOURSELF, and then call ACAP already.
Conflict of interest and YOU- The Taxpayer
“Everyone involved in this case gets body-slammed..” my dear friend Tim Miller says.
He’s right. I have, he has, OCSO has, and you all have vicariously. However, there is the potential for very serious financial fallout to the taxpayers of Florida in the midst of a recession. Warning: This will frost your shorts.
Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary – Friday, January 30, 2009 – Oh, Greta, Greta, Greta
- Dana questions the quality of Greta’s investigative journalism when a “key piece of evidence” in the Caylee Anthony case is a ham sandwich.
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Posted January 30, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, Podcast, Scared Monkeys Radio | 4 comments |
Todd Black Who? Blink34 New Spokesperson for Casey Anthony Defense Baez Law Firm, Part 2
The following is a condensed version of an article that appeared on Rozzie Franco’s column on www.monsters.fm Rozzie can be seen these days on HLN’s show Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell.
Is Todd Black Gil Cabot?
Hinky – Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.
If your like us, your collective hinky alarms sounded at defcon 3 when this character in the Casey Anthony saga was introduced to be the spokesperson for Attorney Jose Baez.
Was it the fact that his pressers’ read like the work of my 12 year old’s submission from “if you had this career, what would you sound like” contest? Perhaps the fact that it appears he used an ACTUAL typewriter? For most, the clincher was definitely the CNN assertions of Baby Caylee’s death. There is only one reason a PR *cough* rep does not get canned after such a debacle.
He owns or has the right to own, a slice of your hide.
A quick search on IMD… Todd Black is a very well known, highly successful Hollywood producer. I would expect the man to have a part on Entourage any day. Not this Todd.
From his first presser, where he included the TN phone number, owned by him, as a principal of the inactive Aim Production Company, in Nashville, TN, Mr. Black earned himself a file.
Gil Cabot, apparently a bi-coastal expert in adverse media coverage, albeit his own, is probably not the best representative for Mr. Baez’s office as “Gil Cabot”. The elusive and camera shy, newest alter-ego of Gil Cabot bursts into the Big Top. No clown car arrival as apparently there really is a limit as to how many aliases can fit in there at once. Gil was just plain Gil for his stints in the big house in the late 80’s and 90’s for grand theft and attempted extortion of Entertainment Tonight’s Jann Carl during a meeting. His criminal file also reflects the alias Jerome Bradley.
Introducing Gilbert A Cabot, aka , Jerome Bradley
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Repeating quote from above apparently “hot” site:
“… Today’s Media is the worst enemy of justice. Larry King might be the last of honest journalism.”
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Barack Obama is Human After All … Those Pesky Trick White House Windows … Where’s the Door?
Finally, proof positive that Barack Obama is not the Messiah. It would appear that President Obama has not figured out which are the windows and which are the doors at the Oval Office. Will we see this picture over and over on cable and comedy shows? Hardly, because something as funny as a President walking into a window is only relegated for Republicans and GWB. The perception of Obama being a rookie President cannot be the image sent out to the people, even though it was damn funny. Late night comedy talk shows have said they don’t do skits on Obama, because there is no funny material. Really?
Can you imagine is George W. Bush had done something like this? Oh wait, he did. The 2005 departure from a press conference in Bejing China when GWB tugged on the locked door handles. To his defense, at least it did have a door handle. Of course with media bias, one event is lightly reported, the other becomes and endless video loop.
Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary – Thursday, January 29, 2009 – Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Takes Aim At Rush Limbaugh
- Dana discusses Rush’s latest controversy.
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Rush Limbaugh Calls it a Democratic “Porkulus” plan
I believe the wrong kind is precisely what President Barack Obama has proposed. I don’t believe his is a “stimulus plan” at all — I don’t think it stimulates anything but the Democratic Party. This “porkulus” bill is designed to repair the Democratic Party’s power losses from the 1990s forward, and to cement the party’s majority power for decades.
Notwithstanding the media blitz in support of the Obama stimulus plan, most Americans, according to a new Rasmussen poll, are skeptical. Rasmussen finds that 59% fear that Congress and the president will increase government spending too much. Only 17% worry they will cut taxes too much. Since the American people are not certain that the Obama stimulus plan is the way to go, it seems to me there’s an opportunity for genuine compromise. At the same time, we can garner evidence on how to deal with future recessions, so every occurrence will no longer become a matter of partisan debate.
Posted January 29, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Democratic National Convention, Podcast, Scared Monkeys Radio | 14 comments |
Stimulus Sticker Shock: Obama Open to Compromise on $825B Stimulus bill … $900 Billion
Stimulus Package … Deal, or No Deal?
Stimulus package vote ready to go; however, it seems many have issues with this colossal bill that will put our children into debt for years to come. Obama stated that he is ready to make changes to the stimulus bill; can’t we all just get along?
How much of this $825–$900 billion stimulus is just more governmental wasteful spending? What did they say prior to the election about tax and spend liberals?
“The Democrat bill won’t stimulate anything but more government and more debt,” Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, chairman of the Republican conference, said Tuesday. “The slow and wasteful spending in the House Democrat bill is a disservice to millions of Americans who want to see this Congress take immediate action to get this economy moving again.”
On the eve of a key vote, President Barack Obama privately promised Republicans he stands ready to accept changes in the $825 billion economic stimulus legislation, invoked Ronald Reagan to rebut conservative critics and urged lawmakers to “put politics aside” in the interest of creating jobs.
“The American people expect action,” Obama said Tuesday as he shuttled between closed-door meetings with House and Senate Republicans on a trip to the Capitol that blended substance with political symbolism.
John Boehner to GOP: Vote against stimulus. Obama’s Democrats control the House and the Senate and could certainly pass this bill with little to no help from the minority Republican party. However, there also seem to be some fearful Democrats as well. So why does Obama want Republican support? It’s not about can’t we all get a long, it’s about Democrats better not be the only one’s that support a massive stimulus package that fails or when even more $’s need to be requested in the future. It is about the CYA political reelection game.
The $825 billion stimulus package in now creepy closer to $900 billion. Why don’t they just make it an even trillion and call it a day? Will the MSM report on the pork in this stimulus package? Looks like Republicans are accusing Obama of being Bush-like in creating crisis and widespread panic” just like its predecessor in order to get Congress to act expeditiously.
The economic stimulus package proposed by Democratic House leaders totals $825 billion and includes three broad pieces: a $365.6 billion spending measure for such brick-and-mortar projects as highways and bridges; a $180 billion measure to boost jobless benefits and Medicaid, among other things; and a $275 billion tax-relief package, which includes a plan to give a $500 payroll tax holiday to all workers, a proposal from Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign.
Nancy Pelosi’s Contraceptive Measure dropped from Stimulus. Looks like Obama has shown Pelosi who has a greater approval rating.
