The tax code is arcane, complex, fuzzy and plain stupid in parts, which makes completing tax returns involving a complexity of income sources and losses more of a black art then anything else. But that is a bogus cover for Obamas latest cheatin' cabinet nominee.

"most of the problems involved a lack of documentation for certain deductions"

Come on now, that is one of the most typical ways people cheat on taxes - they just make up deductions out of thin air.

...no mention of congressional numbers? Approval at 36% (up from a low of 14% in the fall of 2008) and disapproval at 54% overall. I guess "good" by Congressional standards but when democrats asked how Democrats in Congress are doing, democrats overwhelmingly approve Democratic congressional representatives and ditto on the republican side. It seems a case of mental dyslexia for the American people to conclude their party is doing great things in Congress, but the Congress as a whole is a crap fest.

As far as comparing Obama to Bush, compare Bushes first year numbers with Obama’s, not GWBs last years when the economy was tanking and the democratically controlled Congress was at a 75% disapproval rating.

So ok the polls show more people (36%) believe the country is heading in the right direction and that is a large improvement over 9% when the stock market was falling off a cliff. But I would keep the pom-poms at bay, 60% of the people still feel the country is heading in the wrong direction and at a certain point the direction of the country numbers and Obama’s approval numbers will match up – where is dependent on the state of the economy and how well our multiple wars are sold.

The issue is quality. The perception that coming up with a new restructuing plan in 30-60 days is suddenly going to create higher quality, better designed cars is simply idiotic. GM and Chrysler has been restructuing for the last 30 years, if they focused on making better cars then on restructuring they may not be in the pickle they are in today.

So Fiat makes unreliable cars and Chryslser makes unreliable cars so Obama as self-proclaimed manufacturing CEO with ZERO experience ordains they make a perfect couple. But first he has to undercut any negotiating power Chrysler may have had with the timing of his public announcment. Can't this idiot resist being in the news every couple of hours?

The administration is deluded itself as being the Office of People Who Are Much Smarter Than Anyone Else when in fact they are the Office of the Clueless Who Think They Are Much Smarter Than Anyone Else.

Not withstanding the inconsistency of the manufacturing bailout vs the financial bailout, let me see if I got this right.

- Make a no bailout announcement that causes sales to further plummet thereby accelerating GM and Chryslers demise, while at the same time trying to boost sales with a government backed warranties bailout.

- Have taxpayers buy huge fleets of new cars for the federal government with warranties backed by same said taxpayers because who knows, the makers of these cars could soon be out of business. Is this what is meant by self-insuring?

- Force the firing of the top GM guy, force concessions from unions, provide government auto warranties, and then announce the federal government has no interest in being in GMs business.

BTW what in the world does "backing the warranties" mean, if GM goes out of business, Congress and the White House are setting up GM auto-repair shops?

I am missing the coherency.

...that sensless wars are one of the few things that remain bi-partisan.

Military industrial complex, hallow be thy name.

BTW, where is the progressive loudly voiced compassion over our troops being stretched to the breaking point? Tell you what, bring back the fukkin' draft and there will be riots in the streets up to the halls of Congress demanding these wars end overnight.

Bush - Either we invade Iraq or the terrists will come over here and kill us all.

Obama - Either we adopt my budget or we will fall into a second great depression.

Bush supporters - support the war because we are Republicans and he is a conservative president.

Obama supporters - support the budget because we are democrats and he is a liberal president.

I am not arguing whether invading Iraq or Obamas budget is a good idea or not, but noting that fear mongering and partisan blindness has not changed.

"Yep, sure the founding fathers had that in mind....." - Coker

Yes I am sure the founding fathers had citizens who reached sexual awareness in mind when penning the constitution. I am sure there was something in the constitution about banning masterbation but some liberals must have stricken it on some spurrious claim that the constitution guaranteed rights not limited them.

If the prosecuters in these cases and their supporters did not have their heads so far up their ass as to be totaly blind to common sense they would be looking for ways to give young girls solid guidence as to the perils of making suggestive pictures public instead of incorrectly, unethically, unfairly, and unconstitutionally prosecuting them and labeling them as sex offenders, potentially ruining their lives and rendering the sex offender registry meaningless.

So when Obama chastised Bush during the debates for his deficits and now has become Mr. Deficit on steroids is somehow different from Cheney saying deficits don't matter in support of Bush deficit spending?

Let's sum up this whole stupid article. Deficit spending is fine only when my party or my idealogy is doing the spending.

Not funny.

Unreasonable government criminalizing of marijuana has had disastrous results on many many lives. It is a human rights disgrace.

We don't need one side of the aisle laughing it off and the other side wanting to equate marijuana use with armed robbery.