{"id":31417,"date":"2009-01-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:50:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:50:39","slug":"obama_transition_full_of_scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/01\/14\/obama_transition_full_of_scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Transition Full of Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Lots of stuff in the news today. This Geithner, the guy that\u2019s been appointed Treasury secretary, failed to pay his taxes and his nanny\u2019s taxes, too. &#8216;No big deal. Oh, no, we need this guy so much, we can\u2019t let these little technicalities hold him back.\u2019 He didn\u2019t pay his taxes! He was audited by the IRS. Now one of the things about this that\u2019s curious to me, he worked at the IMF, the International Monetary Fund and apparently when you work there you\u2019re an independent contractor, you are self-employed, as such, there are no tax deductions, you are paid the gross. Thus it is up to you to file quarterly estimates. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama_Transition_Full_of_Scandals_.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignright\"\/>He didn\u2019t do this for a number of years on the basis that it just slipped his mind? That he wasn\u2019t aware? The guy ran the New York Federal Reserve. He is said to be the only guy that can run the Treasury department to bail us out of all the problems that we\u2019re in, and he doesn\u2019t know about &#8212; I just find this hard to believe. Forgot it? The nanny thing is one thing, that\u2019s equally as problematic, but the thing about this that gets me is that he\u2019s getting a pass and claimed not to know he had to pay taxes on gross income. I know he didn\u2019t blame his wife like he didn\u2019t blame anybody else, but some of this stuff is just unbelievable. <\/p>\n<p>These are the smartest people in the world, and they get away, whether they\u2019re in Chicago or in Washington, of acting in the stupidest ways you can possibly imagine educated people to act. Jose Serrano, a Democrat congressman from New York, has proposed an amendment to the constitution to repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment. Now, for those of you who voted for Obama, the Twenty-Second Amendment is the amendment which limits the presidency to two terms of four years. Jose Serrano not waiting for the inauguration, they want to eliminate the Twenty-Second Amendment so that Obama could perhaps serve forever.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, let\u2019s see here, folks. The education nominee cannot speak proper grammar. The Treasury nominee doesn\u2019t pay taxes. The nominee for secretary of state voted for a war that she opposed &#8212; and, by the way, she\u2019s out there trying to give Obama some stealth lessons. Do you remember during the 2004 Kerry-Bush campaign, Kerry kept talking about, &#8216;We gotta do things smarter. We have to have a smarter foreign policy. We have to have a smarter this, smarter that.\u2019 Hillary has avoided using Obama\u2019s favorite word &#8216;bold.\u2019 Everything that Obama is going do is going to be &#8216;bold.\u2019 Hillary yesterday at her hearings &#8212; and, by the way, did you see any of the Hillary hearings? Here\u2019s a woman with conflict after conflict after conflict, and 11 of the 12 Republican senator chairs were absent at one time or another. They didn\u2019t press her on anything. They have laid down. <\/p>\n<p>The Republicans have totally laid down. It\u2019s apparent to me that they\u2019re not going to do anything of any kind that\u2019s critical or whatever until long after the inauguration, until long after things &#8212; even then, I don\u2019t know that they\u2019ll do it. So she\u2019s out there saying she\u2019s going to have a &#8216;smart\u2019 foreign policy, incorporating her words and Kerry\u2019s word. The nominee for attorney general worked in the pardon office, and he didn\u2019t know anything about who was pardoned supposedly. That\u2019s Eric Holder. Hope and change? We\u2019ve got more scandals here during the transition than most presidencies have in one term, and now we\u2019ve got this. &#8216;Obama\u2019s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Department\u2019s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General\u2019s report released this past July. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan\u2019s firm, The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies. During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation. Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to &#8216;cauterize\u2019 the\u2019 Obama file, to make sure that whatever was in there was bottled up so that anything damaging didn\u2019t get out. He\u2019s got a political guy over at CIA politicizing that place. This is going to be fun, hilarious to watch play out, folks, and we\u2019re going to be watching every minute.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, the environmental czar, the global warming czar that Obama has picked is Carol Browner. She dates back to the first Clinton administration. She\u2019s married to Tom Downey, former Congressman from New York, huge lefty. She\u2019s a member of the Socialist International. Now, the Socialist International is a giant group made up of socialist parties from countries around the world, and she\u2019s in charge now of the environment under the Obama administration. &#8216;Mrs. Clinton said, &#8216;We must use what has been called &#8216;smart power,\u2019 the full range of tools at our disposal.\u2019 She advocated a mix of diplomatic economic military, political, legal, and cultural strategies.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Wow, as though that\u2019s never been done before. That\u2019s the definition of smart power? We never done anything like this before? Smart power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Lots of stuff in the news today. This Geithner, the guy that\u2019s been appointed Treasury secretary, failed to pay his taxes and his nanny\u2019s taxes, too. &#8216;No big deal. Oh, no, we need this guy so much, we can\u2019t let these little technicalities hold him back.\u2019 He didn\u2019t pay his taxes! 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