The Kansas City Star reports that,
Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding “unintentional errors” — the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.
The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated today that was obtained by The Associated Press. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.
A little over two months in office and here’s the list of Obama favorites who don’t understand the tax code but are responsible for saving the “worst economy since the Great Depression:”
Am I picking on Obama?
Am I being unfair?
Shouldn’t I give him a chance to succeed?
Before you answer those questions, consider for a moment what Democrats and liberals would be saying had Bush vetted his cabinet members as poorly as the Obama administration has vetted theirs?
Get the point?
We have had to endure left wing attacks on Dubya for everything from the way he pronounces the word “nuclear” to the way he walks.
Listen to this from self-proclaimed intellectual Jonathan Chait of The New Republic:
He reminds me of a certain type I knew in high school–the kid who was given a fancy sports car for his sixteenth birthday and believed that he had somehow earned it.
I hate the way he walks–shoulders flexed, elbows splayed out from his sides like a teenage boy feigning machismo. I hate the way he talks–blustery self-assurance masked by a pseudo-populist twang.
I even hate the things that everybody seems to like about him. I hate his lame nickname-bestowing– a way to establish one’s social superiority beneath a veneer of chumminess (does anybody give their boss a nickname without his consent?).
And, while most people who meet Bush claim to like him, I suspect that, if I got to know him personally, I would hate him even more.
This childlike prattle is called “intellectual nuance” when uttered by a liberal.
But when a Republican dares to raise a real issue like Obama’s sloppy vetting of prospective administration members, it’s called a vicious right wing attack.
The Difference Between Hate and Legitimate Disagreement
Here’s the difference between me and someone like Chait: My problems with Obama are solely policy and performance related.
I can divorce my feelings about the man from my feelings about his policies.
Irrational, hate-filled people like Chait are incapable of this.
I am rooting for Obama, the President, to succeed even though I disagree with many of his policies. For my country’s sake, I hope he is right and I am wrong.
I am able to root for Obama’s success because I don’t have a visceral hatred for the man himself.
That kind of hatred blurs judgment and makes the hater do stupid things - like, for instance, root for America’s failure in a foreign war.
The sad truth is that people like Chait would have loathed George W. Bush even if he had forged a lasting world peace, fed all of the world’s children and found a cure for baldness.
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