Hey, it worked for Eric Massa, why didn’t it work for ex-Rep. Nathan Deal? We’re talking about resigning quickly so that the Ethics people don’t release hilarious findings about you! This is what has happened to Nathan “Ghetto Grandmothers” Deal, now. He resigned immediately after last week’s health care vote, a resignation he had already delayed in his heroic, selfless attempt to kill ObamaCare and socialism. He is running for Georgia governor and needed to scoot out of the ol’ House before the Ethics Nannies shat all over him, which they did anyway.
But on Monday, The Office of Congressional Ethics released its report anyway, concluding that the Georgia Republican appeared to have improperly used his office staff to pressure Georgia state officials to continue a state vehicle inspection program that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for his family’s auto salvage business.
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After voting against the health care bill, Mr. Deal resigned March 21, just minutes before a deadline that would have required the House ethics committee to investigate the allegations further or dismiss the case. It must take such a step within 45 days of getting a preliminary investigative report from the Office of Congressional Ethics.
The ethics office inquiry found that Mr. Deal had described his income from the salvage business in his official financial disclosure report as dividends, indicating that he was a passive investor. But his 2008 tax return in fact showed that this money was paid as wages, according to the report.
Again, he actually tried to pass off wages from his politically-pushed family-owned car junk business as Corporate Dividends.
In other words, capitalism happened, what’s the problem?
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Dear Lord, what’s he doing to that roasted turkey on his desk?!
This scandal is pretty boring. Not a hooker in sight.
I blame ACORN.
Isn’t that tax fraud, too, since dividends are taxed at a much lower rate than income, thanks to George Dubya “My Daddy Said So” Goatfucker?
Hey, he worked hard for that money. Those state officials are not going to lobby themselves.
I’m shocked, shocked, I tells ya.
He should have reported the income as capital gains on his tax return, that way he could enjoy a lower tax rate. But he didn’t, so he’s a socialist.
Peaches and Crackers. A Southern Treat.
SCANDAL! Used-Car-Salesman Swindles! Extra Extra!
He lied confusing his more heavily taxed salary and called it dividends? On the salary there would be Social Security and Medicare tax. On dividends there would not be any such tax. So he is either monumentally ignorant of the tax laws or a lying scumbag republican from Georgia. Hmmm, that is difficult to discern.
[re=543588]Terry[/re]: Or no wide stance or dirty diaper either.
I can already hear Fox and friends now: “How dare the ethics committee engage in such partisan trickery, releasing this information even though the good Congressman already weaseled out of the investigation!” Fox will also label him, “Norman Deal (D-GA)”.
How long before he enlists the help of the Southern Heritage Investigative Trust legal defense team? If he held up a Confederate flag in one hand and a picture of Erica Massa and drawled, “At least I ain’t a homo” he’d be found a million percent innocent. He’d be required to wear a sear sucker suit with one NASCAR patch.
So, there would have been an advantage to dragging the health care vote out by another day, am I hearing this right?
So he deals with older cars, and his last name is actually “Deal?” That’s the kind of graft I only wish I could aspire to.
Wait a minute, someone in the auto salvage business is bent. Really? It’s kind of a shame because now where are Georgia mobsters — if there are any — going to go to dispose of bodies?
Deal Denies Dealing Dented Deal
From Zoë Baird to Kimba Wood, you would think people would have learned by now that ethnic nannies are nothing but trouble.
Hey, a state vehicle inspection sticker is a fucking valuable thing. You don’t just give them away!
How can a socialist society expect anyone to know what they represented on their tax returns? If there weren’t so many socialist taxes this wouldn’t have happened.
The Greased Pig Scramble was always one of my favorite 4-H activities.
Just sayin’, is all.
Another southern gentleman caught playing wih his junk but hey he’s receiving the monies instead of payin.He just needs to cash out early.
[re=543618]give us a bob[/re]: So he deals with older cars, and his last name is actually “Deal?”
All that AND a congressman!
Don’t worry – he won’t get away with this. Fox News will be running stories on in, non-stop, for a full week. Besides, some guy threatened him – I believe it was a school yard bully back in his grade school days, but I’m just saying….
Hey! His family’s junkyard is four blocks from where I used to live in Georgia. And the slob was on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Bwahaaa.
This is why politicians need to vacate the private sector, liquidate all their assets, break ties with their families, and live out of cardboard boxes if the want to run for public office. It’s the only way, man.
[re=543653]germansteel[/re]: Yes, they’ll have non-stop coverage of Congressman Deal (D-GA)
[re=543588]Terry[/re]: “This scandal is pretty boring. Not a hooker in sight.”
His family was in the auto salvage business. No doubt the hookers wound up in the car crusher.
Please say this means another “Very Special Episode” of Glen Beck! Please say this means another “Very Special Episode” of Glen Beck!
Another brilliant conjunction of capitalist scum-bag and politico scumbag. And,hey, its Republician flavored !
This isn’t a proper GOPer scandal. No diapers. No teenage boys. No underage females.
What’s wrong with the GOP?
[re=543611]JMP[/re]: He was a Democrat … he was elected as one (in … lessee… 1993), then switched parties a few years later … in time to vote against Pres. Clinton. Now he wants to be governor. This will be a big help with that. And he didn’t even stop socialism and the end of our way of life.
[re=543655]Katydid[/re]: So Wonkette shouldn’t joke about it?
But did he see Rahm naked? Inquiring and horny minds want to know.
[re=543670]ManchuCandidate[/re]: There only a minority party righ now..give them a break. When their day of wrath comes against the Demoncrats and their allies, then the Republicians will have the power to indulge in all the gay sex, prosititues,and general kinkiness that we have all come to love/cringe at.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
-10 Whore Diamonds.
[re=543592]blkblt[/re]: yea, and a state vehicle inspection is a fucking valuable thing. You dont just fucking give it away.
[re=543670]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Needz moar pedophilia
[re=543618]give us a bob[/re]: I see a great opportunity for a signpainter here.
[re=543618]give us a bob[/re]: Georgians are grateful his family name is not “Analrape” or “Cockgobbler”.
Neads moar horse-bits.
Requiring state auto inspections in Georgia?!? Three-quarters of the population here wouldn’t have transportation if inspections were required on the falling apart, tail pipes draggin’ on the road, puffin” out great clouds of black and/or white smoke, ridin’ on bald tires vehicles that pass for automobiles in this state!
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