I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts !

But if everybody whose professional credibility is ruined resigned, then we wouldn’t have a President, a Vice President, a Secretary of State, a Secretary of Defense, an Attorney General, a Secretary for Homeland Security, a National Security Advisor, an Ambassador to the United Nations, a … — well, you get the picture. Scotty fits right into his milieu.

Q Yes, good morning. I’m a CPA here in Loudoun County.

THE PRESIDENT: Right.

Q (Inaudible) — and the IRS does not spend a lot of time auditing. The last administration turned the IRS into a customer service department. And here, the last three years, it’s been reorganized. There’s quite a few people that do not comply. I really think that the IRS needs to get out there and audit. I hope none of my clients are here. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: That’s a very unbelievably interesting statement from a — (laughter.) No, but you’ve got a good point. Look, here’s the point the man is saying. He’s right. There are too many honest people — first of all, there are people who feel like they don’t have to pay taxes, and that’s not fair to the millions of honest people who do. A tax system is — (applause.)

Look, I don’t know the inner workings of the IRS; I know there is strong enforcement. And with the millions of filings, I would suspect there’s programs in place that highlight irregularities, that then call up the audits. I don’t think you can ever audit everybody, nor would you subscribe for everybody being audited who files a return. But if there’s flagrant anomalies in reporting, I suspect they take a good look at it.

You’ll be pleased to hear that I’m audited every year. (Laughter.) One way or the other. More than happy to put out my income tax returns for my friends in the press to scrutinize. (Laughter.) I see them nodding — yes, they love — (laughter.) As it should be, by the way, for people in public office. Those of us in public office have the high responsibility to uphold the integrity of the process. And people ought to be held to high standards. In Washington, D.C. there needs to be high standards for conduct of public officials. (Applause.)

Full speech:

Bush will stonewall on Abramoff for the duration of his administration and then
pardon him.

with osama’s (convenient) new tape today, we may very well martial law by then anyway. it is a grave day for the US of A.

I am so over the press sucking up to these idiots.

“Who was responsible for hiring David Safavian for a position in the Office of Management and Budget, who recommended him and what criteria were used to evaluate his fitness for the position?”

If Scottie can’t answer that one due to Safavian still being under investigation, ask the same question about Patrick Pizzella being hired by the Dept. of Labor.

That’s right, and since Scottie insists that questions be very precise so as not to be “fishing”, how about this: “Scott, who made the decision to replace the federal prosecutor in Guam who was investigating Jack Abramoff, and why was the investigation dropped?”

Since it’s not an “ongoing investigation” anymore, he should be able to provide an answer.

Me at least.

If you want the new ideas and policies stuff, go to the APAF site. This is Think Progress. You know, a place where trolls like you come to derail our discussion of current events.

How this closeted Jeff Gannon stroker can sleep at night is beyond me.

-GSD