DDD - Democrats Double Standard

Once again the rules are different for the Dems, I mean they have their standards that is, (throat clear) (cough cough) double standards.

Like American Thinker pointed out recently in their article "The Media Double Standard on Corruption";

"In late September, 2006, the Mark Foley scandal came to light, and Foley resigned almost immediately under threat of expulsion from Republican leadership. The media responded with a 5 week, in-depth frenzy into all things immoral and hypocritical about Foley and the Republicans. The "Culture of Corruption", a Democrat talking point, had many champions in the mainstream media, and they hammered home their point in countless articles and TV newscasts as the mid-term elections approached. Newsbusters reports a count of 152 stories among ABC, NBC, and CBS in 12 days."

"On MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski, Chuck Todd and Willie Geist said, laughing, "We are not going to get into the ugly details", and just like that they were done with Tim Mahoney. A search of the New York Times for the first 8 days after each story broke finds 67 stories about Foley, not including their blog pages, and just four for the Mahoney story. The Times' stories on Mahoney were buried on pages A12 and deeper. In other words, the New York Times can't find any similarities between the two stories and apparently doesn't have a problem with going full-bore after one guy and virtually ignoring the other. Newsbusters also managed to count all the television stories about Mahoney on ABC, NBC, and CBS the day after the story broke: zero. "

And remember the Sarah Palin tax story the one where the the two law professors, were arguing that the Palins’ tax returns as they were a "very big deal". as state by RedState

"Never mind that The State of Alaska consulted with the IRS, according to a McCain-Palin spokesperson, and the governor’s tax attorney provided a letter stating that the Palins took and reported their deductions properly. Good thing the Palins have that H&R Block guarantee!"

"I wonder if the Tax Profs are aware of Timothy Geithner’s tax situation? Perhaps they have been too preoccupied with tracking down every little deduction claimed by Todd and Sarah Palin to notice. Besides, Camp Obama has assured us all that the man the president-elect believes is best qualified to be in charge of the U.S. Treasury in these times of financial trouble made an “honest mistake.”

Once again to our total surprise, NOT, the Lame Stream Media is always on board with any "glossing over" to protect their party of loser Liberals. Newsbusters writes;

In a post last night, I criticized the Associated Press for glossing over the 15 years of personal and domestic self-employment tax filing and payment problems of Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury Secretary (pictured at right in an AP photo). It turns out that Brett Blackledge's Tuesday evening report was relatively hard-hitting in comparison to Julie Hirschfeld Davis's rendition early this morning (stored here), because her original 3:33 a.m. report has since been updated).

Davis's assignment appears to have been to shorten and update Blackledge's original writeup. To be fair, Davis immediately indicated that Geithner's nomination is no longer on cruise control. But she deleted, or pushed to later paragraphs, quite a few details that would cause an average reader to go "Huh? This guy wants to be Treasury Secretary?" What's more, her vague title ("Tax problems may plague Obama's treasury pick") replaced a much more specific one from Blackledge ("Geithner failed to pay self-employment taxes"). Davis's most obvious airbrush is in her second paragraph (bold is mine):

From NY Post

COMEDIAN Steve Martin once explained how to make a million dollars without paying taxes. First, you make a million dollars. Then, you don't pay taxes. If the IRS finds out, you explain: "I forgot." Then, if that's not enough, you say, "Well, excuuuse me!" This approach was offered in jest, but these days it's looking pretty promising. Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner seems to be pulling it off in the tax arena even as I write this, and now the Supreme Court, in its just-released decision in Herring v. United States, has ruled that simple negligence by police - in arresting a man based on a warrant that had been withdrawn, but left in the computer by mistake - isn't enough to justify excluding the evidence found during that arrest.

Being a "public servant," apparently, means being free to make the kind of mistakes that the rest of us aren't allowed. Admittedly, the facts in this case aren't that appealing. Bennie Dean Herring, a man with prior felony convictions, went to retrieve an impounded truck. Looking for a reason to arrest him, a police officer asked if there were any warrants outstanding. The computer showed a warrant from a neighboring county. Herring was arrested and found to be in possession of a pistol (illegal, as he had a prior felony) and methamphetamine. Moments later, the clerk called to say that the warrant had been withdrawn, but by then the search and the arrest had been made. According to Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, "When police mistakes leading to an unlawful search are the result of isolated negligence attenuated from the search, rather than systemic error or reckless disregard of constitutional requirements, the exclusionary rule does not apply." ...."the rest of us enjoy no such immunity. If you're a citizen who, say, accidentally carries a gun into a designated "gun-free" zone, the Supreme Court will not say that you can escape punishment because your action was "the result of isolated negligence." For citizens, there's no "I forgot" defense."

The Geither Chronicles at Red State;

"Timothy Geithner, whose nomination as Treasury secretary has been delayed by his past failure to pay taxes, was repeatedly advised in writing by the International Monetary Fund that he would be responsible for any Social Security and Medicare taxes he owed on income he earned at the IMF between 2001 and 2004." ...."Mr. Geithner didn’t make any Social Security or Medicare tax payments on his income during the years he worked for the IMF, though he did pay income taxes. After the Internal Revenue Service audited him in 2006 and discovered the payroll-tax errors, Mr. Geithner corrected them for 2003 and 2004. Only after Mr. Obama picked him for Treasury secretary last fall did Mr. Geithner pay the Social Security and Medicare tax he owed for 2001 and 2002."

Sadly some of the Republican Elected officials are on board with the corruption, take note South Carolina and Ohio. WSJ recently wrote in their "IMF Informed Geithner on Taxes " article'

A number of senators, including Republicans, continued to express their support for Mr. Geithner. "These are not the times to think in small political terms," said Sen. Lindsay Graham, a South Carolina Republican. "He has a great résumé." Others were more circumspect. "He may be a smart guy, but the average person on the street sees that he hadn't paid his taxes," said Sen. George V. Voinovich (R., Ohio). Senate aides said that Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.), a former state tax commissioner and a Finance Committee member, wants to study Mr. Geithner's tax records and speak to the nominee.

Red State goes on to reinforce the point in their article; "Leona Helmsley Went to Jail. Tim Geithner Might Go to Treasury. "

"Barack Obama wants this man as his Treasury Secretary. That job would put Mr. Geithner in charge of the very tax system he cheated, at a time when Democrats already have another tax cheat - Congressman Charlie Rangel - in charge of the committee that writes those tax laws. One tax cheat in charge of the tax system at a time is surely enough."

"Average Americans do not get to cheat the tax system and become Treasury Secretary. If we are a nation wherein all men are created equal, either no American should be prosecuted for cheating on their taxes or Mr. Geithner should be rejected as Treasury Secretary."