Announcement

I'd like to take such a "Super" day to announce my "Responsible Citizen's Economic Stimulus Package of 2009."

Given our nation's emergency economic situation and this news original h/t Instapundit

"If all you knew about Tom Daschle was that he used to be a senator, and he made a mistake and had to pay over $100,000 in back taxes, you have a right to be skeptical, even cynical. But if you know Tom Daschle, you know better," said Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. Durbin suggested Daschle, who was a lawmaker from 1978-2004, was overwhelmed by his newfound wealth when he entered private life.

I think it wise for all citizen's to withhold an amount up to and including $140,000

The Washington Post reported Sunday that Daschle paid $140,000 in back taxes and interest to the U.S. Treasury on Jan. 2

from our 2008 tax bills, while pledging to spend said monies immediately solely for the purposes of stimulating the economy with the same urgency our government demands.

As the recession is now over, or will be within a month given this incredible but necessary stimulus package, other than having a friend or relative who "knows" you write the IRS to assure them this was only done because as a citizen you were "overwhelmed" by the dire economic news out of Washington and desirous of doing only that which was best for the country, I encourage all citizens to return to their regularly scheduled programming.

Please defer any and all governmental questions or concerns to Senator Durbin, or your own Senator, if you prefer ... who I have no doubt will be your strong advocate in any potential tax proceedings ... because they care about you and this great nation more than anything else.

Addendum: Should you think this is a joke or a farce, then please consider that it is at the least no less or great a "joke" or a "farce" than is a bunch of corrupted Washington, DC insiders who manage to get themselves re-elected time after time covering for another corrupted DC insider with the audacity to absolutely ignore his own responsibilities as a US taxpayer while knowing full well that nothing would prevent his ascension to a position of high office should his own political party re-gain power.

It is time to start taking out the garbage in both parties as regards Washington if you ask me.

What the hell is it going to take for the people of this country, Right or Left, to say they've had ENOUGH???

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[Blacque Jacques Shellacque]

"What the hell is it going to take for the people of this country, Right or Left, to say they've had ENOUGH???"

A lot more than you might think. Remember, with much of the voting public, it's everyone else's representatives that are the scoundrels.

[Lala]

Linda Hall Daschle, who is a registered lobbyist with the Washington firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. (Roll Call and The Post are reporting that Linda Daschle is set to leave the firm and open her own shop focusing on transportation in January. “Although she does not have health care industry clients, the company does represent numerous health interests,”

At her current firm, she counts American Airlines, Boeing, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Lockheed Martin and L3 Communications among her clients, according to her online biography. She has been called a “major lobbying force” by associates, according to The Hill, and The New York Times said she is one of the “most influential professional lobbyists in the capital.”

Linda Daschle, a former acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, mainly lobbies for aerospace and airline industry clients, but has worked for some health care-related firms in the past, Senate lobbying disclosure reports show.

She was one of a few Baker Donelson lobbyists on accounts for the pharmaceutical company Amgen Inc. and cigarette makers Lorillard Tobacco and Philip Morris Cos. in 1999.

Daschle has some health care related connections of his own: He serves on the boards of Prime BioSolutions and the Mayo Clinic, among others, and his law firm lobbies for a number of industry clients, including CVS Caremark, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, Abbott Laboratories and HealthSouth. Daschle does not lobby himself, but his law firm has a lobbying arm.

http://tinyurl.com/5ftrpa

[Lala]

Daschle’s Problem Not New - Revisting his wife’s lobbyist ties in 2003

“The national press corps didn‘t bother to tell you why Tom Daschle, the Democrats’ Senate leader, decided at the 11th hour not to run for president: In the end, he calculated that he couldn‘t survive scrutiny of his persistent service to the clients of his wife. Linda Daschle has been one of the airline industry’s top lobbyists for two decades — when she wasn‘t busy running the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which explains why, just 11 days after the 911 attacks, her husband rushed through the Democratic Senate, which he controlled, the $15 billion bailout for the airline industry, a notorious taxpayer rip-off.

Right after then-Congressman Tom Daschle dumped his first wife for a younger, prettier one, the former Miss Kansas Linda Daschle went to work as chief lobbyist for the Air Transport Association, the airline industry’s main lobby; she then became the senior vice president of the American Association of Airport Executives; and these days hangs her hat at the pricey top Washington lawlobby shop Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, headed by former GOP Senate leader and ex–Reagan chief of staff Howard Baker — where she peddles influence on behalf of a long list of lucrative aviation clients. The clients for whom Linda lobbied brought more than $5.86 million into Baker, Donelson in one three-year period, including Northwest Airlines ($870,000 from 1997 through 2001) and American Airlines ($1.26 million in fees). Northwest was already teetering on the edge of bankruptcy even before 911. American, which has had six fatal crashes since 1994 (not counting 911) and has been repeatedly fined by the FAA for a skein of safety violations, had the reputation as the most unsafe major U.S. carrier.

Yet these two clients of Linda Daschle‘s got nearly $1 billion from the airline bailout her husband pushed into law — thanks to which Northwest (which was the second largest contributor to Senator Daschle’s 1998 campaign, and which scooped up $404 million in government cash) actually posted a $19 million profit in the third quarter after the twin-towers attacks. And, as the lone senator to vote against the bailout, Illinois GOPer Peter Fitzgerald, decried, “The only people who got bailed out were the shareholders. The 1 million airline employees were left twisting in the wind.” So much for the populist noises that occasionally come from Senator Daschle‘s mouth. The Daschles also made sure that the bailout exempted American (which has consistently lobbied against tougher airline safety standards) and other carriers with lousy safety records from any real liability to lawsuits from the families of 911 victims. Moreover, the General Accounting Office found that the airline industry’s representations to Congress to secure the bailout overstated its anticipated losses from 911 by as much as $5 billion.

Before 911, Senator Daschle pushed through the sleazy deal in the backrooms of Capitol Hill that forced the FAA to buy defective baggage scanners from one of Linda‘s other clients, L-3 International (from which Linda’s firm raked in $440,000 in the ‘97–’01 period). Under a provision Linda‘s husband had slipped into the 2000 budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the FAA was required to buy one of L-3’s scanners for every one it purchased from the company‘s competitors. The L-3 scanners were found to be substandard by DOT’s inspector general; FAA tests of the scanners showed high failure rates; and most have not yet been installed because of their defects (the one at the Dallas–Fort Worth airport — another of Linda‘s clients — leaked radiation), which is a major reason DOT says it won’t be able to screen all luggage for explosives for years to come.

http://tinyurl.com/dmqf9f

[WBestPresidentEver]

"What the hell is it going to take for the people of this country, Right or Left, to say they've had ENOUGH???"

A lot more than you might think. Remember, with much of the voting public, it's everyone else's representatives that are the scoundrels.

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The voting public that participates in kool aid drinking need to turn to Juice or something instead. Then maybe they will come down off that OBAMA cloud they are drifting on.
Some how, some way, term limits need to come into play. This country would be a hell of of a lot better off for it.

[Fioricet Online]

The clients for whom Linda lobbied brought more than $5.86 million into Baker, Donelson in one three-year period, including Northwest Airlines ($870,000 from 1997 through 2001) and American Airlines ($1.26 million in fees). Northwest was already teetering on the edge of bankruptcy even before 911. American, which has had six fatal crashes since 1994 (not counting 911) and has been repeatedly fined by the FAA for a skein of safety violations, had the reputation as the most unsafe major U.S. carrier.