Another tax criminal in the Obama cabal of tax cheats

Yeah, how many more of these criminals are we going to tolerate (from the Washington Times);

Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas, has agreed to pay around $9,975 in back taxes from 2005 to 2007, the Senate Finance Committee said.

Much of the unpaid taxes came from speaking fees Mr. Kirk had failed to report because he had donated the honorarium to his alma mater, Austin College, and from tickets to professional basketball games that he had deducted as professional entertainment expenses.

The White House, however, is “confident that Mayor Kirk will be confirmed,” said spokesman Ben LaBolt.

According to the Washington Post, he took some other liberties with his taxes, too;

Kirk also overstated the value of a television he donated, valuing it at $3,000 instead of $1,500, the committee found. And he did not have an acknowledgment letter for a $900 donation.

Despite these obvious lies, Max Baucus is willing to confirm him;

“Mayor Kirk is the right person for this job and I will work to move his nomination quickly,” Baucus said. “I am confident he can successfully restore the confidence of Congress and the American people in a balanced international trade agenda.”

And Grassley is ready to cave – he just won’t tell us;

Baucus’s Republican counterpart, Sen. Charles Grassley, will “reserve judgment” until a hearing is completed, said to his spokeswoman, Jill Gerber. The committee plans to hold a hearing on Kirk’s nomination next Monday.

Of course he’ll be confirmed because the Republicans are too busy being distracted by the Steele/Limbaugh death match. We’re great at tearing each other apart – we’re quick to agree with Democrats while taking pot shots at each other. That’s how you pack a cabinet with criminals and REALLY lose your civil rights.

And Obama (along with Associated Press) is feeding the irrational BDS by releasing top secret Morocco Mole documents about fighting terrorism;

The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing that, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks, government lawyers were already discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations without warrants.

Sounds pretty serious doesn’t it? Well, if you’re not blinded by rage, the next line, one single sentence, hints that it’s not that bad really;

The Bush administration eventually abandoned many of the legal conclusions, but the documents themselves had been closely held.

In other words, lawyers were noodling and the people who had to actually execute the decisions disagreed and did the right thing. But you really have to be paying attention to catch that single line out of the entire article. So all this is really about is protecting the discussion, not protecting actual criminal acts. Ya know like people who don’t pay their taxes and get in charge of departments of governments who’d tear our arms off if we didn’t pay all of our taxes.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Legal, Politics