"I am my brothers keeper"

A few weeks ago, The One blessed us with this platitude

“These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation: that is, that we look out for one another; that is, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper. And in the wealthiest nation in the world right now we are neglecting to live up to that call.”

But has anyone in the media called out The One for his generosity towards his family members, especially his half brothers and sisters in Kenya?

Now the POTUS and VOTUS have released their tax returns do you think anyone will challenge Joe Biden for the paltry 1.5% he donated to charity last year?

But give the guy credit. Someone must have whispered in his ear and said "giving $300 a year isn't good PR" because he did ratchet up his donations to $5,500 this year.

But don't forget this guy gets free room and board as well as a full security detail on his principle home in Delaware. If those items were taxable (which they would be for any other profession), his percentage would be even more paltry.

As a tax preparer I generally don't judge people on the charitable donations because many people support family members or family friends that don't count as a tax deduction.

But I have no problem calling bullshit on a president and vice-president who want to call me stingy because I'm not all that fired up about paying more taxes for our government to waste.

I just wonder when the liberal media types are going to call out these clowns for the hypocrites they are.

The party of racists, sexists and anti semites

Let's just look at the laundry list of racist acts & statements attributable to one political party

Asians

Former Washington DC Mayor, Marion Barry, is back in the news. He won a Democratic primary to seek re-election as a DC councilman last week and, in the middle of an incoherent victory speech, the 76-year old suddenly went a bit racist. “We've got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses – those dirty shops," he said. “They ought to go. I'll just say that right now, you know. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.”

Barry has since apologised for his remarks, but not before confirming a general air of senility and superiority. He told the Washington Examiner that he was “one of the most successful elected officials in America,” and that he was doing “God’s work … I have made public service my ministry. God gave me a great brain, courage, charisma, vision and the kinds of things that make leaders.” Barry’s overlong, reckless career is a testament to the horribly broken state of local politics in DC. The city is a single party state that routinely neglects its constituents.

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Latinos

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a family member of George Zimmerman asked the nation’s top law enforcement officer why he has chosen to not arrest members of the New Black Panther Party for their rhetoric — some of which may fit the federal government’s definition of a hate crime — throughout the Trayvon Martin case.

The family member believes the reason Holder hasn’t made those arrests is because he, like the members of the New Black Panther Party, is black.

“I am writing you to ask you why, when the law of the land is crystal clear, is your office not arresting the New Black Panthers for hate crimes?” the family member wrote to Holder.

“The Zimmerman family is in hiding because of the threats that have been made against us, yet the DOJ has maintained an eerie silence on this matter. These threats are very public. If you haven’t been paying attention just do a Google search and you will find plenty. Since when can a group of people in the United States put a bounty on someone’s head, circulate Wanted posters publicly, and still be walking the streets?”

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Women

Even for Obama, who's both an avid golfer and staunch backer of women's rights, questions of gender equity have arisen. According to Mark Knoller of CBS News — who keeps close track of such matters — Obama has included women among his playing partners only twice in 93 rounds of golf since taking office.

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Jews

The staffers in Washington and Chicago, the sources said, viewed Wasserman Schultz's insistence, over a period of months, on the hire as a matter of the chairwoman putting her own politics and fundraising ahead of the interests of the re-election campaign on one of the most delicate areas of politics and policy, Obama's relationship with the Jewish community. They also worried that the daughter of a powerful donor could be a difficult fit in what was theoretically a junior role.

The Democratic sources described the episode as the latest in a series of tensions between Wasserman Schultz's own agenda, focused on her Florida political career and her own broad fundraising base, and the interests of the re-elect. It was also the most recent incident in which the chairwoman, who Democrats had hoped would be a capable and visible spokeswoman for the president, has instead proved a distraction.

The years-old photographs from Gilbert's Facebook page were reported by the conservative Washington Free Beacon" the same day her hiring was announced — sending Democrats again into damage control on Jewish issues. The photographs played to the worst stereotypes of Jews' role in Democratic Party politics, picturing them clutching dollar bills and referring to themselves as “Jewbags” and the “Jew cash money team.”

Gilbert was not, however, fired over the story, to the surprise of some of her new colleagues.

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Or how about the lack of diversity within the Obama campaign............





Geez....... if you were to watch TV, you'd think these were all tea party highlights.

Let's pretend

“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space. . . . This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.” — Barack Obama to Dmitry Medvedev, March 26

Just for giggles, imagine for a moment that Obama said this not to some Ruskie named Dmitry but to Eric Cantor to pass along to John Boehner.

What would be the odds that he could say something like this to a republican in lieu of our world rival?

I think I have a better chance of hitting the next 600 million dollar lottery.

Maybe Boehner and Cantor should defect to Russia and aim some cruise missiles at us if they want some cooperation from the administration.

What's fair?

Yesterday, I did a return for a client who had a W-2 for $996k in wages.

If you are a person who believes that the rich don't pay enough in taxes, please tell me what this douche bag should pay in taxes on this income.

I've thrown this out before but I'm also interested in a related question. Let's face it. If you believe that the rich don't pay enough you probably have some attitude towards what this asshole earned in the first place.

So tell me how much should he earn for his job in the first place?

I won't bother you with the details of his background, education and such because, frankly I don't know that much about his background. So I'll always assume that his income is a result of a willing employer offering and a willing employee accepting the deal.

But you won't need to know those details either because your sense of "fairness" exceeds your understanding of his employment relationship in the first place just like your sense of fairness on his tax liability exceeds our democratically produced tax code.

So tell me what this scourge on society should pay?

Funny of the day

Thanks reader Bruce

The Nanny State............ literally

When I first read this, I just shrugged my shoulders thinking it was just one more government intrusion we've allowed........actually we've asked for.......... in our lives.

When reader Jeremy sent me the link, I decided to read the whole thing and this should make everyone's blood boil.........

A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.

The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.

The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs - including in-home day care centers - to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.

When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones.

The girl's mother - who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation - said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a "healthy lunch" would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.

"I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria lunch when I provide lunch for her from home," the mother wrote in a complaint to her state representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson County.

The girl's grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite, picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread and is not big on vegetables.

"What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly," the girl's mother told CJ. "I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn't really care for vegetables."

The Gekko's have one nephew out of about twenty who eats green beans out of a can and will eat broccoli without bathing it in ranch dressing. So the fact that her kid doesn't like vegetables would make her normal.

But instead, we all have to play pretend and make believe that if the kid only had access to a vegetable they would eat it.

Seriously, where does it end?

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I just don't understand

It has always blown me away how some people keep getting good jobs despite a fairly complete resume chock full of failures.

In sports, it's Wade Phillips and Isaiah Thomas. These guys keep getting prestigious jobs despite failure after failure.

In Washington DC, you have Jamie Gorelick, champion of some of the biggest FUBAR's in world history..............

Amazon.com just added a new board member: Jamie S. Gorelick, a veteran of the U.S. government and no stranger to controversy. The company announced the appointment in an SEC filing a short time ago. Gorelick, a litigator at the law firm WilmerHale, was a long-running U.S. Deputy Attorney General who... blah, blah, blah...

It has to say something about the value of compromising photographs because I don't get it.

Here's my advise. Sell Amazon short. Yesterday the share price was about $185. We'll check back in from time to time to see Gorelick's value add to the board.


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Not true

According to Mitt Romney

“I am the only candidate in this race, Republican or Democrat, who has never worked a day in Washington,”

The current president never worked a day in the Senate while he was there unless you call clocking in and voting "present" working.

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Why I don't worry about the poor

It's been fashionable for the past 24 hours to rip Mitt Romney for "not worrying about the poor". But frankly, I'm not worrying a whole lot either.

Why? Let me share this anecdote......

On my way back from a client meeting, I stopped in a local carry out for some gum.

In front of me was a lard ass picking up her Code Red and bag of chips. Now I wouldn't care one iota about someone buying this crap........except that it wasn't her buying it.............. it was me and the rest of our taxpayer's who paid for this skank's nutrition fill.

When I came out of the store she was wedging her ass into a moderately aged minivan while her "old man" was enjoying one of those flavored cigars.

When our poor have enough resources to fund Code Red, chips, flavored cigars, and a minivan, I'm not losing any sleep over their struggles.

Maybe I can take Soledad O'Brien on a welfare field trip.

BTW The woman in question was white so you can tell Rep Moore (see previous post) my anger crosses racial lines.

Why Braveheart is one of my favorite movies

Next to Animal House.

Seriously, do you remember the scenes from Braveheart where the Scottish lords and land owners would pay lip service to William Wallace and pledged to fight the British and repeatedly sold out Wallace and his army?

It's a similar scene playing out in the republican party...........

The conservative Republican base understands Newt Gingrich better than the GOP establishment thinks.

They are aware of his intermittent apostasies and occasional adventures with crackpot policy. They know Mitt Romney is the one with executive experience and that Gingrich can’t really run things.

And they don’t want Gingrich to run things. They want him to destroy things.

If you are in Washington and you see a member of the Republican establishment, say, walking down K Street, wrap your arms around them. He or she needs a hug, because probably for the first time ever in a Republican presidential primary the establishment is in danger of being completely ignored.

The Republican establishment believes that the birth and rebirth of candidate Gingrich should have ended in the cradle, that he had no right messing up Romney’s coronation in South Carolina and had better be stopped in Florida.

The establishment knows Gingrich. He’s kind of a friend of the Republican establishment. And Gingrich, the establishment says, you’re no president.

The establishment may be right. But it may not get its way. Win or lose Tuesday in Florida, Gingrich is in the game for real, because the Republican base is giving him a chance.

The grass-roots conservatives, tea partiers, evangelicals and the like who compose the base have had it with the establishment. The base is not only angry at President Barack Obama. The base wants to eat its own.

It was nice, polite Republicans, like Romney, who colluded with Democrats in expanding the federal government and who piled up the $15 trillion debt that now threatens to destroy the country. It was upstanding members of the GOP who added a new Medicare entitlement without paying for it, who created new agencies and wove myriad regulations to govern the lives of regular folk.

The base wants someone who is not polite, who is not conventional, who has the potential to grasp the established order in Washington by its cuff links and rip out its entrails.

We tea partiers are just dying for someone to ride a horse in the GOP head quarters and start lopping off heads.

We don't care if it's Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Newt, Michelle, etc. etc. as long as we see some blood on K street.

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From the "if you have to say, it's probably not true" file

If someone tells you they want to be a millionaire but the only thing they do is buy lottery tickets how serious are they?

"On Tuesday at the State of the Union, I laid out my vision for how we move forward," President Obama said at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada. "I laid out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last, that has a firm foundation. Where we're making stuff and selling stuff and moving it around and UPS drivers are dropping things off everywhere."

"That's the economy we want. An economy built on American manufacturing, with more good jobs and more products made here in the United States of America," he also said.

Clue phone to the Obamunists, incorporating job killing regulation is like making the lottery your retirement plan.

What about Reverend Wright/

Do you think the press spent as much time on Obama's church affiliations...............

After wondering aloud yesterday whether the Romneys converted Mitt's dead father-in-law to Mormonism, Gawker's John Cook has confirmed it: Yes. They did.

Edward Davies, Ann Romney's father, was an atheist who was also strongly anti-religion. By the time he died, he was the only member of Ann Romney's immediate family to not convert to Mormonism.

Fourteen months later, in 1993, he was baptized in a special ceremony at a Salt Lake City church. This practice requires a living person who has already been baptized to undergo the immersion in water again on behalf of the dead. No word on who this person might have been in Davies' case.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/confirmed-romney-family-had-ann-romneys-atheist-father-posthumously-baptized-into-the-mormon-church-2012-1#ixzz1koEvoaXz

Subsidizing the rich/enabling dysfunction

Yesterday, I met with a client who was telling me about some of the shaking things her employers want her to do (ie making out paychecks to girlfiends, etc.) in the midst of our conversation she was telling me that her daughter recently had a child out of wedlock.

Now she was all prepared to provide her daughter with an apartment (they own a bunch of rental property) until she got on her feet. While her daughter was in the hospital, she was informed that qualified for the WIC (women infant and children) program.

So she went to the county and the social worker down there signed her up for all kinds of freebies, food stamps, ADC, subsidized housing, a regular welfare box of chocolates. She even advised the daughter not to get a job because it would mean that she would lose some of these benefits.

Since she's getting all the freebies, she decided that she didn't need the parent's help after all.

What's the significance of all this?

My client has a suspicion that her daughter's baby daddy is a drug user/dealer and doesn't want the grandchild expose to the dirt bag. Obviously, without the daughter living in their property they have less control over the situation.

Now ask yourself the following questions,

1) Do you think baby daddy is going to get his act together and start providing for his progeny?

2) Do you think that the daughter is going to get the smelling salts and kick this dirt bag out of her life?

3) Do you think that without welfare, her family would be able to financially pick up the slack for the daughter's and grand daughter's care?

4) Give me the odds that the grand child of my client will grow up to be taxpaying/productive citizen?

Monday, I had a client who cancelled an appointment so she could attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a forty year old who died of a heroin overdose. He was living with a woman who had kids through multiple baby daddy's. She could fund their drug habit with money from the taxpayer.

Did it ever occur to any of these liberal do-gooders that all of the "help" they like to dole out does nothing but keep people mired in misery?

Here's the difference between conservatives and liberals. When conservatives see this shit and it pisses them off. When liberals see it..... actually I don't know what they're thinking. Maybe they're not thinking at all.

There goes John Galt

Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes.

According to National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson, approximately 4,000 people gave up their citizenship from fiscal year 2005 to FY 2010. Renunciations increased sharply within the past three years, from 146 in FY 2008 to 1,534 in FY 2010. And during the first two quarters of FY 2011 alone, 1,024 Americans ditched their citizenship.

We don't need no stinkin' rich people.

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Forgetting that the term illegal means something

Let's say you're one of these people who believe that every illegal immigrant is simply an "undocumented" citizen here to better their life.

Do we deport convicted felons?

Apparently, the answer for the Obamunists is no...........

When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti.

That never happened.

Instead, when Dufrene’s state prison term was up, Miami immigration authorities in October 2010 released him from custody. Two months later, North Miami police say, he slaughtered three people, including a 15-year-old girl in a murder case that remains as baffling today as it did the afternoon the bodies were discovered.

DNA on a rifle found inside the house and cellphone tracking technology later linked Dufrene to the Jan. 2, 2011, slayings.

But North Miami detectives never got to interrogate him. Just 18 days after the murders, Dufrene shot and killed himself when he was cornered by Manatee County sheriff’s deputies in Bradenton after an unrelated break-in and shooting there.

The episode is a black eye for U.S. authorities, who by law could not detain Dufrene indefinitely after the Obama administration ordered a temporary halt of deportations to the island nation.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/22/2602909/immigration-authorities-released.html#storylink=cpy

But other than that it's a great idea

Someone should tell the Obamunists that the Keystone pipeline is hauling oil from Canada to the gulf, not beer..............

President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is an act of national insanity. It isn't often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues and -- beyond the symbolism -- won't even advance the goals of the groups that demanded it. All it tells us is that Obama is so obsessed with his re-election that, through some sort of political calculus, he believes that placating his environmental supporters will improve his chances.

Aside from the political and public relations victory, environmentalists won't get much. Stopping the pipeline won't halt the development of tar sands, to which the Canadian government is committed; therefore, there will be little effect on global warming emissions. Indeed, Obama's decision might add to them. If Canada builds a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific for export to Asia, moving all that oil across the ocean by tanker will create extra emissions. There will also be the risk of added spills.

Now consider how Obama's decision hurts the United States. For starters, it insults and antagonizes a strong ally; getting future Canadian cooperation on other issues will be harder. Next, it threatens a large source of relatively secure oil that, combined with new discoveries in the United States, could reduce (though not eliminate) our dependence on insecure foreign oil.

Finally, Obama's decision forgoes all the project's jobs. There's some dispute over the magnitude. Project sponsor TransCanada claims 20,000, split between construction (13,000) and manufacturing (7,000) of everything from pumps to control equipment. Apparently, this refers to "job years," meaning one job for one year. If so, the actual number of jobs would be about half that spread over two years. Whatever the figure, it's in the thousands and important in a country hungering for work. And Keystone XL is precisely the sort of infrastructure project that Obama claims to favor.

The big winners are the Chinese. They must be celebrating their good fortune and wondering how the crazy Americans could repudiate such a huge supply of nearby energy. There's no guarantee that tar-sands oil will go to China; pipelines to the Pacific would have to be built. But it creates the possibility when the oil's natural market is the United States.

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More liberal dirty tricks

When you can't win the argument.... pretend to be your opponent.

A Des Moines man has been arrested after police say he used, or tried to use, the identity of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz in a scheme to falsely implicate Schultz in perceived unethical behavior in office.

Zachary Edwards was arrested Friday and charged with identity theft.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety issued a news release saying Schultz’s office discovered the scheme on June 24, 2011 and notified authorities.

So who is Edwards?

Edwards is a former Obama staffer who directed “new media operations” for Obama in five states during the 2008 primaries. Thereafter, he was Obama’s Director of New Media for the State of Iowa. In the Democratic Party’s lexicon, “new media” apparently includes identity theft.

Edwards now works for LINK Strategies, a Democratic consulting firm with extraordinarily close ties to Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin. Its principal, Jeff Link, has served as Harkin’s campaign manager and chief of staff. Link, too, is a former Obama staffer. The LINK Strategies web site says that Jeff Link “served as a media consultant to the Obama for President Campaign, coordinating branding, all paid media and polling in 25 states, including seven battleground states (VA, NC, FL, CO, NM, NV, MT)….”

But hey, can we get some more dirt from one of Gingrich's ex's.

Thanks reader Tim for the link.

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How conservatives are screwed

I was listening to a talk show the other day and the host was asking the question, are these last four guys remaining the best we can do?

The answer is yes.

If you are a conservative, you are bound to be disappointed.

Let's face it. If you are a true conservative, you don't believe that government works. So why would anyone pursue a job in an institution they don't believe in?

Conservatives are drawn to careers that matter (which by the way tends to make the most money). In a parallel to the old adage ............"Those who can do. Those who can't run a government".

So we're left with a group who have significant flaws.

If you've been wondering why I haven't posted in a few days it's because the coalition of Romney, Gingrich, Paul and Santorum = four more years of Obama. To say I've been depressed about the our future government would be an understatement.

So I'll try and get back in the fight and advancing the cause of conservatism even though we don't have the candidate who can do it.

David Brooks, Resident Idiot

This is what happens when you determine that a guy should be president because he has a great crease in his pants.

Center-right New York Times columnist David Brooks opined a few months ago that President Obama, whom he once supported, was governing like a liberal.

Today, Brooks doubled down, telling Laura Ingraham this morning that Obama is not only governing that way, he is that way — or at least more that way than Brooks once thought.

"I still like him and admire him personally, but he’s certainly more liberal than I thought he was,” Brooks said.

“He's more liberal than he thinks he is. He thinks he’s just slightly center-left, but when you get down to his instincts, they’re pretty left. And his problem is that he can’t really act on them, because it would be political disaster. And so that means, I think right now he’s doing very little, proposing very little."

Funny how all of parochial gun toting neanderthals in middle America seem to know this before the intelligentsia.......

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Must read

This is dated but if you haven't read the whole thing, you need to read this article by Kevin Williamson.

For a few measly millions, Wall Street not only bought itself a president, but got the start-up firm of B. H. Obama & Co. LLC to throw a cabinet into the deal, too — on remarkably generous terms. President Obama, for a guy prone to delivering prim and smug little homilies denouncing greed, greed, greed — the only of the seven deadly sins that truly offends Democrats (though Mrs. Obama has done some desultory work on gluttony) — is strangely comfortable among the Gordon Gekkos of this world. Shall we have a partial roll call? Beat the drum slowly and call out the names: With unemployment still topping 9 percent, the catastatic world economy teetering on the brink of another, even larger financial catastrophe, and trillion-dollar U.S. deficits as far as the green-shaded eye can see, let’s hear it for Obama’s first National Economic Council director, Lawrence Summers (of hedge-fund giant D. E. Shaw and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz), who has had some nice paydays courtesy of Lehman Bros., JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup. Let’s hear it for Citigroup’s Michael Froman, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national-security adviser for international economic affairs, for Hartford Financial’s Neal Wolin, deputy Treasury secretary, for JPMorgan’s William Daley, Obama’s chief of staff, and for his predecessor, Rahm Emanuel of Wasserstein Perella. Let’s hear it for Fannie Mae’s Tom Donilon, national-security adviser. (No, seriously: One of the luminous interstellar geniuses who brought Fannie Mae to its current aphotic state of affairs, upside down to the tune of trillions of dollars, is running national security, and the former director of the White House Military Office, Louis Caldera, was on the board of IndyMac when it finally went toes up — sleep tight, America!) And, lest we forget, let’s have three big, sloppy cheers for economic-transition team leaders Robert Rubin (Goldman Sachs, Citigroup) and folksy tax enthusiast/ghoulish billionaire vulture Warren Buffett.

That’s a pretty fantastic lineup, from Wall Street’s point of view, but the real bonus turned out to be Treasury secretary Tim Geithner, who came up through the ranks as part of the bipartisan Robert Rubin–Hank Paulson–Citigroup–Goldman Sachs cabal. Geithner, a government-and-academe man from way back, never really worked on Wall Street, though he once was offered a gig as CEO of Citigroup, which apparently thought he did an outstanding job as chairman of the New York Fed, where one of his main tasks was regulating Citigroup — until it collapsed into the yawning suckhole of its own cavernous ineptitude, at which point Geithner’s main job became shoveling tens of billions of federal dollars into Citigroup, in an ingeniously structured investment that allowed the government to buy a 27 percent share in the bank, for which it paid more than the entire market value of the bank. If you can’t figure out why you’d pay 100-plus percent of a bank’s value for 27 percent of it, then you just don’t understand high finance or high politics.

Are your national news media types so ingrained with liberal orthodoxy that they just can't even conceive of the notion that it's really the democrats who are the party of Wall Street and big dollar interests who love a government who will protect their turf from intruders?

It baffles the imagination.