Dadmocracy

Alrighty then, we have a new president! The inauguration speech was a’ight. A phrase or two did stick with me:

“The question we ask today is not whether our Government is too big or too small, but whether it works…”

Um, no, I’m definitely still asking that question, Mr. President. Got anything else?

“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history.”

“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility…”

Holy crap am I gonna hold you to those…Good luck, President Obama. I will be praying for you.

Kicking off the new “Era of Responsibility”:
Tax-evader Timothy Geitner is going to be the new Treasury Secretary! When you run the IRS there’s a slim chance of getting audited again…

“During the hothouse days of the presidential campaign, Joe Wurzelbacher became famous because he got Barack Obama to confess that he likes to spread the wealth around. Better known as Joe the Plumber, the Toledo, Ohio, laborer became the target of bottomless venom and scorn because he seemed like an obstacle to Obama’s coronation.

One of the main talking points, particularly among left-wing bloggers, was that Wurzelbacher was a tax cheat because, it was revealed by ABC News, he had a tax lien of $1,182 for back Ohio state taxes. This fueled the argument that he was a fraud, his opinion didn’t matter. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Fast-forward to today. Timothy Geithner, President Obama’s choice to be the next treasury secretary, quite clearly tried to defraud the government of tens of thousands in payroll taxes while working at the International Monetary Fund. The IMF does not withhold such taxes but does compensate American employees who must pay them out of pocket. Geithner took the compensation — which involves considerable paperwork — but then simply pocketed the money…

I thought the Democrats believed the financial implosion was caused by arrogant and greedy men who thought the rules didn’t apply to them because they were so important. I guess they didn’t mean it.”

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“After poking fun at George W. Bush for eight years — often drawing him with big ears and a severe overbite, or as a gung-ho Joe College type, or simply as a clueless doofus — political cartoonists are finding Barack Obama a more elusive target.

Bush’s emotive facial expressions, easy-to-caricature physical features and, most of, all his deeply unpopular political decisions were fodder for liberal-leaning cartoonists. But the cool and detached Obama enters the White House at a time of considerable economic anxiety, bolstered by wishes of goodwill even from some political opponents.

‘I had all my villains in place for eight years and they’ve been taken away,’ lamented Pulitzer Prize winner Pat Oliphant, one of the most widely syndicated cartoonists. ‘I don’t know that I’ve ever had this experience before, of a president I maybe like. This is an antagonistic art. We’re supposed to concentrate on finding things wrong. There’s no point in drawing a cartoon that’s favorable.’”

What a load of sycophantic BS. I accept your challenge, Mr. Mark. Oh, yes, I accept…

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