Re: Crew calls for fed crim investigation into christine o’donnell for campaign fraud
Then you might want to actually pay attention then, since it was there. I personally opposed Geitner's nomination for that very reason, and have no use for tax cheats. The outcry from liberals was there, I can't help it if you choose to ignore it.
Well since you took issue with me saying it seemed that the vast majority of liberals I saw or knew didn't seem to care all that much comparitvely to Democrat tax issues, lets just look at what's easiest to show tangibly here...DP:
Story 1
And the plethora of posts by liberals showing outrage similar to O'Donnell are follows:
...oh wait, sorry, there wasn't any. Moving on.
Post 2
Here's another. Quotes for the posts in the thread by liberals:
Seriously?
This is a joke right?
This was a post by Hatuey having issues with Hugh stating there wasn't this kind of issues with the Bush administration. IE, deflect and attack that stance but say nothing about what's going on now.
This may sound a bit jaded, but if they can do the job well, does it matter if they are crooked?
Wow. Batman Begins feeling there. You know, how everyone is bad.
And here Obvious Child completely shurgs it off, cause hey, they can do the job.
Next thread
Here we at least have some on your favor. aps commends Daschle for stepping down, which is the closest thus far of any kind of criticism for tax issues spoken by a liberal yet in my search.
Kandahar says its fine, not because what Daschle did was necessarily bad, but because he's replacable. Unlike Geitner, who Kand essentially says any holding up of his nomination due to taxes would be "petty" because he's so important. I would say "Its ignorable because he's really important" doesn't really fall into the category of having a huge issue with tax problems.
ITs scorn was more focused on Obama's failure on vetting then any condemnation of a persons tax issues.
Willrockwell just immedietely decides to proclaim Daschle must be in the pocket of Big Business and begins Bush deflection techniques.
Moving on.
Geitner specific one here
And what's here? One liberal poster, Kandahar, who again is basically shrugging it off cause Geitners just too important
Another one
Where the only two liberal posters are Slippery Slope, who never says a single negative thing about Geitner and instead complains about republicans the entire time, and Willrockwell, who doesn't say a single negative thing about Geitner and immedietely begins talking about Sarah Palin.
Sorry Redress, I looked through the Daschle and Geitner threads and I'm not even coming up with even a sliver of as much animosity or care about tax issues that is being shown now towards O'Donnell. I'm not even seeing many people, outside of APS, doing what I've done which flat out said if its looked into and legit that action needs to be taken against them and its wrong. Most of the threads liberals didn't even bother going into even say ANYTHING about it, and those that did said nothing negative about the individuals instead trying to switch the topic to Bush or Palin or just finding excuses for them.
As a note, I did a search for "Geitner and Tax*" by "redress" as well. I could find no post other than this one that you mentioned those words together. Indeed, just searching for Geitner by you I've only found one other post, which does mention you think he shouldn't have gotten the job. Reasons for why, be it the political damage it caused, because you disagreed with the tax issue, etc was not listed. And it was in the ridiculous thread titled "Should Barack Obama be murdered" so wasn't even one detailing the taxes.
Sorry, my recollection was that there wasn't even a SLIVER of this much outrage about taxes from the left during that entire period where multiple nominees to positions had issues. My recollection was silence for the most part, with excuses and diversions being the next most common thing. This was both here, in the media, and around and about in life. Now do I imagine Democrats to scream just as loud then as they do now? Of course not, I'm not foolish enough to think human nature doesn't exist and people don't react differently subconsiously when its "their side" or not. However it is not a gap in the level of the reactions, its a goddamn chasm.