When “Completely Unacceptable” Doesn’t Really Mean “Completely Unacceptable”

  •  January 24, 2009

I hit on Senator Kent Conrad’s comments about tax evader Timothy Geithner’s appointment yesterday, but today emerges expanded comments from Conrad which make him look like even bigger a fool than he did previously:

A senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said he believes Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner’s failure to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes is “completely unacceptable” and would in any other time disqualify Geithner from heading the Treasury Department. But the senator, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, decided to vote for Geithner because it would take too long to find a replacement candidate for the key cabinet post.
“On the matter of Mr. Geithner’s failure to pay certain self-employment taxes, I find it completely unacceptable,” Conrad said before the committee’s 18-5 vote to approve Geithner yesterday. “I’m a former tax commissioner, I’ve dealt with hundreds of cases like this one, and in normal times that alone would lead me to oppose his confirmation. But these are not normal times, and I personally don’t think we can afford a further delay in the filling of this critically important position.”

So, given this vote for Geithner, apparently the tax evasion wasn’t completely unacceptable.
How much you want to be that it really would have been “completely unacceptable” for Conrad if the tax evader in question were a Republican?

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  • http://Array ellinas

    Political doublespeak from a lying politician.
    One standard for us peons another for their rich friends.
    Shame!

  • patriot

    Conrad thinks Geithners tax evasion is about as “unacceptable” as accepting a deeply discounted mortgage from Angelo Mozillo for his $900,000 beach home in Delaware.

  • sc

    I agree. Had it been a Republican appointed by a Republican president, the results of Kent Conrad would have been just the opposite. What’s more amazing (if you can believe the news media) is that Giethner was paid monies from his employer, that was meant to be used to pay the taxes.

  • welder4

    Congress and senate has become like a group in grade school , you are either in or out . it my time it was the hoods and the finks so who is running things now? why the finks are of course

  • 2Hotel9

    Sorry, guys, I think every American should join Geithner in telling the IRS to get fucked. Follow his example.

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    hint; someone at the fargo forum should look into what he did to those people…..

    That would require investigative journalism, which the Fargo Forum has never done.

  • jimmypop

    “I’m a former tax commissioner, I’ve dealt with hundreds of cases like this one”

    hint; someone at the fargo forum should look into what he did to those people…..

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Well I think we have to follow the law. This isn’t an anarchy. We want policy change.

    And I don’t think Geithner is any example to follow. No doubt, Geithner thinks we should pay our taxes, and probably more than we’re paying now. It’s that, like a typical liberal, he doesn’t expect that to apply to him.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    The usual idea of something being too important to allow the truth to get in the way. Used by the Anthropic Global Warming yo-yos for instance.

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