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Dashle teach Obama to nominate people who won’t pay their taxes!*
*ban me if you must!
Tom Daschle is history’s greatest monster.
I got one word/guttural yelp fer ya: HYAH!!!!!!
Note to self. If I ever get rich:
- will clean my own house
- will raise my own kids
- won’t ride around in a free limo for years and never wonder about the whole arrangement.
Please, please let Barry appoint Jocelyn Elders to the job.
It is so hard to be a flaming douche-hack in this economic climate.
Doesn’t Caroline Kennedy need a job?
(I’m trying to support my fellow womenz. Totes, y’all!)
I hear Joe the Plumber’s looking for work (in between being a war reporter & advising the GOP). Ooops, he forgot to pay his taxes also!
He should’ve dropped out Friday…. he knows how the Game is played!
I strongly recommend that Barry look at this guy:
http://www.cozmo.dk/comics/bunsen_honeydew.gif
Fucking elitist South Dakotan! Go back to fucking Deadwood.
Terry: Well, then what’s the point of being rich if you have to do all that? I guess you can still console yourself with the four-diamond whores.
Clearly, a man who wears Sally Jesse Raphael glasses has more important things on his mind than paying plebeian taxes!
He’ll just pick another neanderthal republican senator. He’s turning out to be a dud.
I notice this article had 8 comments before it had any views. This sort of fraud will prevent Sara K. Smith from becoming Secretary of Puppies and Happiness, just you wait.
I heard it’s because the HHS only gets a towncar, not a limo.
Well, Blago is still available.
When your options are to either stay in the private sector and rake it in, or head up HHS, make as much money in a year as you just paid in delinquent taxes and hear every talking head call you the next Hillary, it’s kind of amazing he stayed in the running for as long as he did. Not that South Dakota in February is anything to come home to.
Can his replacement be Howard Dean, please?
Note to Obama: Never pick a man who wears red glasses. C’mon. Trust your instincts.
20-year-old joke:
What is Jesse Jackson’s plan to eliminate unemployment?
Expand the NBA to 5,000 teams
Update:
How will Obama eliminate the national debt?
Expand the Cabinet to 5,000 people. (If each nominee secretly owes $100K, that’s $5 billion minimum)
shortsshortsshorts: Haven’t the editorial board members at the NYT been through enough without us calling them names? They had to endorse Hillary, remember?
Colander:
I think Hillz should appoint Caroline Kennedy as her personal assistant. It would be just like “The Devil Wears Prada” which I know the plot to because I have totally seen it, being a ladiez like the rest of you Wonkette commenters, and not because any hypothetical wife of mine made me sit through it.
SayItWithWookies: Ha! As if Tom Daschle has ever set foot inside South Dakota during the last 20 years!
floraway: major win. Hyah!!!!1!!1
Poor guy will now have to go back to his $5 mill. lobbying job.
floraway: You mean, Chairman Doctor Governor Howard Dean, M.D.? A man who has a medical education, has practiced medicine, and has run a state government where he successfully brought health insurance to a big chunk of his state population, while under enormous political, only to be re-elected for his trouble? That guy? Really? Nahhhhhhhh….
Serolf Divad: But if you did have a wife, it would be a pretty steamy lesbian scenario. Not that I would care, being totally not a straight dude myself, but someone like David Denby might enjoy reading about it.
Really? No pull out jokes?
Bearbloke:
But he doesn’t have a TV show, so… FAIL.
Taxes, schmaxes. I’m just hope Barry won’t nominate someone with a clean tax history but a similarly cozy connection to the healthcare-industrial complex.
Just from the standpoint of encouraging better personal hygiene among the incontinent, I think that the next nominee should be David Vitter.
Bearbloke: If Dean were a Republican he’d be a shoo-in.
nycguy: Every time Hopey fucks up an appt, it does seem like he makes up for it by appointing a Republican douche. Shit. I like Daschle, though I’m not sure I’ll ever spell his name correctly.
Maybe people commented before reading so they could be at the top of the page. When you scroll down a long one, what should appear but Palin’s gaping maw. I know Ken needs the money, but damn, Campbell Brown is so much nicer.
Bearbloke: Howard Dean would be a partisan appointment. His qualifications won’t matter. I’m so sad.
shortsshortsshorts: Nah. Pay yer taxes, shorts, and you can set fire to anything you want, feminine mid-sectional hygiene and all.
Listen up. I paid taxes. (I think I did, “can’t remember”tm.)
Which means I get to set fire to whoever the cognitively-challenged dickhead is doing Hopy’s vetting. Or at least tar, feather, put dunce caps on the dumbfucks, and ride them out of town on a rail, in accordance with traditional American practice.
It’s not a crime to be so globally clueless, but maybe it oughta be. Where the FUCK FUCK FUCK is FUCKING Rahm Emanuel? Somebody tell him to stop dicking around with his new color-coded encrypted Blackberry and get on this.
Also.
Serolf Divad: My choice for Surgeon General has an international TV show also - so Let’s Rummmmmmble at Celebrity Deathmatch!
Maybe Obama ought to get somebody to get some information on these people before he gets all nominatey on them.
May be giving the impression he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Well, I suppose this is better than the demons that would get found out in GOP confirmation hearings, We’d out half of DC (and their escorts) with that circus. Dems are soooo boring.
DustBowlBlues: Aren’t all cabinet appointments partisan? At least the Congressional Dems know that Dean gets it done in all fifty states.
Sara, we need a picture of a mournful Daschle to lob snark at plz.
stopmebeforeitypeagain: Win! I thought Rahm’s was going to be the ruthlessly efficient fixer whose job is to Make It Happen, like Charles Foster Ofdensen! Heads must roll!
Lesson: Self-inflicted wounds are messy.
Also, if he had supported lower taxes all along, and then not paid, it would be different. Also. ‘Cause see, the right wing people love their country, but hate the paying taxes thing. But he’s a democrat. Put him in jail.
stopmebeforeitypeagain:
Build a man a fire, he’s warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, he’s warm for the rest of his life.
Wesley Snipes, please.
Anyone else see this as on par with such sad goodbyes as this one?
loudmouthredhead: Please feel free to lob all your snark in this direction, complete with red acid glasses, blackberry and unidentified blonde - wreckingballreport.com
Bearbloke: Dean’s definitely got the tickets. But one wonders if he has some skeletons in his closet–I don’t think the DNC chairman job gets vetted the way, and who knows what he’s done for money since being gov of VT?
Bearbloke:
Ah yes, the host for Loveline. I’m sure his fireside chats would be held on a bear rug, with a bottle of Courvoisier and leather clad vixen by his side.
I just hope the replacement is someone with solid credentials and is an abortionist…for giggles
V572625694: “gets vetted the way a cabinet secretary does” — damn work keeps interrupting my blog commenting.
Theodorick Of York: you just made my day, win.
Wish I had my campaign contribution back. Maybe then Hopey and Teh Kidz couldn’t afford any more bullets for toe-shooting.
In the long term, I will need the money for something besides peanut butter. In the short term, Pepto-Bismol.
V572625694: Don’t lie: we all know you have not this mystical thing called a “job”. Playing with yourself does not count as work, except for tax purposes.
ManchuCandidate: I’m in agreement only if he hires this man as well:
http://thetimetube.com/wp-content/uploads/Ugliest%20People/lyle_beaker.gif
Also.
Daschle just needed to look a little more tight-lippy in the pictures the MSM was shooting of him -
And I was afraid that in The Perfect Land of Hope we would not have anything about which to snark.
Leona Helmsley, COME OOOON DOWN!
Bet Daschle’s first move after withdrawing will be to go to the IRS and ask for his $128K back.
It just kills me watching MSNBC coverage of Tom Daschle’s tax issues and how he owes all these back taxes, but then these commercials come on where people give testimonials that “I owed $400,000 in back taxes, but Shyster & Shylock Esq. fixed it so I only had to pay $2500!” We’re conditioned to believe we should avoid paying taxes and back taxes at all costs, it’s encouraged in the damn commercials, and then the very party that encourages this vile behavior goes for the jugular of any opponent who dares to attempt to do it. Not that Daschle should have jerked around with his taxes, but still… well, I’m just glad to hear that Republicans will no longer gripe about paying taxes now. At least that’s over.
Now he finally has the time to go back to hosting his daytime talkshow about paternity tests and incest.
Sigh. Dammit. I know and am related to people who really need health care and don’t have it. He would have been good for the job. Depressing.
Oh no! Who will give voice to the concerns of pharmaceutical companies and health care lobbyists now?
And, contrary to popular opinion, legislation concerning health care can originate independent of the head of an executive agency: in fact, that’s why the until-now useless schlubs in the Senate are called LEGISLATORS.
After Caligula, we get Claudius. To quote Wikipedia: “Claudius was considered a rather unlikely man to become emperor. “
Tom Daschle will be forever remembered as the guy who didn’t believe in hope.
Bearbloke: We’re all post-partisan now. Except for the Republicans.
I want Dr McDreamy Howard Dean-ey
if I recall, one of Blago’s many rants on tape was that he wanted this job. See -one door closes and another one opens….lets hope he kicks off his campaign for this job on Letterman tonight.
I feel like such an idiot. Am I the only person in America who pays my fucking taxes? No wonder we have to borrow all our money from the People’s Bank of China.
Half my face is paralyzed (Bell’s Palsy–oh, have I already mentioned that?) and now this. I’m so depressed, I broke into the sack of goodies I was saving for Valentine’s Day and grabbed a two-pack of heart-shaped Peeps. Because I’d eaten all the Conversation Hearts even before this happened.
Larry McAwful: Agreed. And I’ve said it before, though it seems to be all about the taxes, it should have been primarily about his conflict of interest. The Times actually got it right, and I give them credit for it. This guy was by all definitions a lobbyist for industries which he would have been expected to regulate. That’s why he should have stepped down, not this other shit.
From here on it shall be known as the Department of Health & Human Sacrifices.
Larry McAwful: When it comes to taxes, we’re all French now.
DustBowlBlues: I just looked out the window. I think that I will give myself a tax deduction for that.
Oh, and my urologist, Dr. Peter Payne, just told me I had prostate cancer. And I had thought that it was the pain from Hopey kicking me in the ‘nads.