So what’s the deal? Why are so many of Obama’s nominees having tax issues? And why was Barack Obama initially ignoring questions about why so many of his nominees have a hobby of tax evasion? In an interview with Brian Williams, Obama did address the latter question, but in a most troubling fashion.
Let us begin discussing what a “frank discussion” actually means. He [attorney general Eric Holder] isn’t talking about “talk”. If you don’t think we talk race, or talked race during the latest and longest presidential campaign in history, I cannot help you. If that is Holder’s true opinion, the threshold for racial cowardice is simply too low, and we as a country will never rise above it.
Like prior Constitution-extorting funding programs, which have sadly been legitimized by the Supreme Court over a series of progressively bad decisions, the “stimulus” bucks also put principled governors in a bind. Sure, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana would prefer not to take the money, but its money their (unborn) citizens are footing the bill for anyway.