Fine Charlie
The IRS should demand interest and penalties from Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel.
If you owned a condominium unit in a foreign country and earned income by renting it out and if you didn’t have your employer withhold enough money for taxes or make adequate quarterly payments, you probably owed a tax penalty. That is unless you were the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the committee responsible for writing US tax law. It seems that paying interest and penalties is optional if you have been in the House since 1970.
Why can’t Obama shake old man McCain?
Obama should be pulling away as if McCain had been chained to a stump.
After the 2006 elections, the polls showed an unnamed Democrat trouncing an unnamed Republican in the presidential race. Then McCain shut down a field of seriously flawed candidates (including himself) while it took Obama all spring to ice Hilary Clinton. Now that the candidates were known, a funny thing happened. Obama could not pull away from McCain. Poll after poll showed the race tightening until it was neck and neck leaving the conventions. How can this be? How can “The One” not be mopping the floor with “The Maverick”? The obvious answer is that it is attributable to race. I don’t buy it. Do a thought experiment and put Colin Powell in place of Obama. Still think it would be close? Could, the reason it is still close be that the Democratic agenda does not appeal to people that actually vote?
No-body expects the Alaskan Politician
With apologies to Michael Palin and Darby Conley
When Hilary Clinton lost the Democratic primary to Barrack Obama, the talking heads were all a twitter over the prospect of her supporters letting him twist in the wind. This made no sense to me as the positions adopted by Clinton and McCain were incongruous. Then my wife pointed out that issues have nothing to do with winning an election. Elections are little more than a popularity contest. Obama won by cultivating his image. It is a cult of personality. John McCain must have had the same realization when he picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Forget pandering to women or energizing the base. Sarah Palin was selected because she is a better story than any other Republican and just maybe Barrack Obama.