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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (290594)	2/2/2009 12:44:06 PM
From: mph	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793964

Of course, he does. The persistent selection and backing of tax cheats is going to have an effect when they try to cram higher taxes down the throats of taxpayers. At least the ones who have a brain.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (290594)	2/2/2009 12:47:17 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793964

I have heard some pretty lame excuses, sob stories really, about how these mistakes got made.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (290594)	2/2/2009 1:43:44 PM
From: KLP	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Obama: "absolutely" standing by Daschle Wonder how the IRS would look at it if the ENTIRE country of taxpayers did what Rangle, Daschle AND the new boss of the Treasury and the IRS, did??? Are we citizens just to gather that it's OK and SOP for Democrats especially Deems from Chicago that OK this type of thievery?

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (290594)	2/2/2009 4:30:34 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793964

Driving Mr. Daschle Tax avoidance and Democratic Party standards FEBRUARY 2, 2009, 9:33 A.M. ET So Tom Daschle, the erstwhile prairie populist and scourge of multiple Presidential nominees, failed to disclose and pay taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars of income. He also waited months to pay up and told the Obama transition team about his tax oversights only days before his Senate confirmation hearing to become Secretary of Health and Human Services. This one is going to be fascinating to watch, less for what it says about Mr. Daschle than what it will reveal about Democratic standards. Every Republican in America knows that if Mr. Daschle were a Reagan or Bush nominee he'd now be headed back to private life faster than you can say John Tower. That's the way Democrats have treated GOP nominees who were accused of far lesser transgressions than Mr. Daschle's tax, er, avoidance. The question is whether Democrats are going to treat Mr. Daschle according to the standard that Mr. Daschle set when he was running the Senate. And what standard was that? Well, on taxes, you may recall that Mr. Daschle's Senate Democrats led the campaign against ... Message 25378194