Chuck Todd: If anything, Obama’s vetting of Daschle was too thorough
posted at 6:08 pm on February 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
Too thorough, that is, in the sense that they supposedly got bogged down in other issues and didn’t pay as much attention to taxes as they should have. Er, is that remotely plausible? Geithner paid his back taxes on November 21, the same day Obama nominated him for Treasury. From that day on, Team Barry had every reason to check and re-check the other nominees’ exposure to prevent precisely this sort of pattern from emerging and a media frenzy from erupting. Did they neglect to do that? Or did Daschle just lie to them when they asked? According to the Times, he didn’t mention his tax problem to them until late December or early January, weeks after he was nominated on December 11, despite having known about it since June.
The fact that they went ahead with Killefer’s nomination, whose tax lien was imposed four years ago, notwithstanding Geithner’s and Daschle’s snafus makes me think it’s not so much a vetting problem as a Messiah problem: They assumed the public would support The One no matter what, all the more so in a crisis environment with a deep blue Congress wielding a rubber stamp, so they gambled on pushing them all through. Only when the Geithner story took off did they realize they’d miscalculated. Oh well. Exit question via Jim Treacher: That John McCain sure did a sloppy job vetting Joe the Plumber, huh?
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What’s that phrase? Assume makes an ass of you and me???
sherry on February 3, 2009 at 6:11 PM
The defense is that they are so good they are bad? They are so right they are wrong? They make no mistakes, so that is a mistake?
right2bright on February 3, 2009 at 6:11 PM
So I had almost finished a mouthful of dinner when I read the headline for this on the home page.
Then I laughed out loud and some Mac’n'Cheese ended up on Todd’s lil’ face
:(
What a waste of a bite!
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:11 PM
You see, the One’s biggest problem is he cares too much and works too hard.
VolMagic on February 3, 2009 at 6:12 PM
WTF ?
Wade on February 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Honestly. The media is absurd.
Topsecretk9 on February 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM
I’m dying for Joe Biden to comment on this whole thing.
DYING
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM
I read somewhere that it is because of Obama’s TRANSPARENCY that we are finding out about the tax debtedness of his candidates. He’s the only Prez that has been so TRANSPARENT as to look at tax records for nominees. Or something like that.
ctmom on February 3, 2009 at 6:14 PM
That brown ring around his mouth isn’t a goatee.
Chuck Schick on February 3, 2009 at 6:14 PM
It’s a new philosophical study being taught in many higher education facilities around the country – The Way of Obama.
sherry on February 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Ha,
Read this — Obama’s doing us a favor by not being very ethical and showing hypocrisy…
Topsecretk9 on February 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Next to screwing interns, isn’t the tax question the most important for nominees?
Wyznowski on February 3, 2009 at 6:16 PM
lol Right2Bright
So right that they are so wrong!!
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM
I guess this idiot bought the Raisinettes instead of the popcorn. Fool.
kirkill on February 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Chuck Todd + MSNBC = Vacuous Snorefest
fogw on February 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM
This is living, breathing logic.
Bishop on February 3, 2009 at 6:18 PM
No. It’s ridiculous he would even say that, unless he’s pitching just to Obama voters.
Yes. The egos of narcissistic politicians cannot be underestimated. They forget how many of us were not Obama voters, even as the Kool-Aid wears off for some who were.
INC on February 3, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Up is down, short is long!
Black is white!
Young is old!
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:19 PM
I almost spewed too.
Blatanblue: mac n’ cheese for dinner? Why not eat wagyu steak like “The One”? Go ahead – turn up the heat, eat expensive meat and live large!
Rockygold on February 3, 2009 at 6:19 PM
I always look forward to your comments.
LOL
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Todd is a tool; pay him no mind.
redfoxbluestate on February 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM
There are just three questions:
Affairs
Taxes
Illegal employees (however this one is starting to be not important)
Replaced by…Do you listen to Rush?
right2bright on February 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
It’s Biden doing the policy , plagiarizing 1984.
the_nile on February 3, 2009 at 6:21 PM
RACIST!!
right2bright on February 3, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Maybe that’s why his skin’s broken out and he has bags under his eyes. (Anyone see his interview with Wallace a few minutes ago?)
Ah, who am I kidding. He’s looking like crap because he’s finally realizing how far in over his head he truly is.
IrishEi on February 3, 2009 at 6:21 PM
RACIST!!
right2bright on February 3, 2009 at 6:22 PM
You know, like, the important stuff that you and I get busted for. Chuck Todd, no spin for you.
LastRick on February 3, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Mr. Todd, taking into account that brown circle around your mouth, I have only one question…
Can you tell us what Mr. Obama have for breakfast this morning?
PappaMac on February 3, 2009 at 6:22 PM
RACIST!!!
right2bright on February 3, 2009 at 6:22 PM
LMAO
Chuck Todd and the entire NBC/MSNBC news division is a pathetic joke.
Norwegian on February 3, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Man I know it’s beating a dead horse but the comparison of David Gregorys jackassery towards W and his press secretaries with Todds really makes NBC a total joke.
jjshaka on February 3, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Just like the constitution, right Judge Ruthie?!
IrishEi on February 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Dear Mr. Todd,
STFU. Your craft of hiding Obamas failure to pick people to surround himself with that aren’t tax dodging hypocrites is beyond belief.
portlandon on February 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM
LOL… most unpatriotic cabinet EVAR.
DaveS on February 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM
LOL
As I said before
I’M DYING FOR BIDEN TO COMMENT ON ALL OF THIS
aHAHAH! I’m picturing it now!
Walking around like a doofus, cracking stale jokes while making little gun gestures with his thumbs and index fingers, all while giving “im a horny old goat” winks to the female press members.
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM
So basically we’re to conclude that Daschle was one of the good appointees?
Even in their moment of triumph, the democrat stage is populated by tax cheats and God knows what other felons.
jeff_from_mpls on February 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM
LOL!
I’ll be more careful. Promise.
IrishEi on February 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Man, just saw Obambi on TV…He looks like s**t, like he has aged several years in just two weeks.
Must be all that vetting that he has done….LMAO
Norwegian on February 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Aw come on…why should we let a little tax cheating get in the way of a good nomination….?
Is Todd trying to imply that looking at tax records was some sort of above and beyond approach to vetting a candidate?
What an apologist.
Tax records are and should be the FIRST thing they look at.
You should always know where a politician gets his money.
NeoKong on February 3, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Norwegian on February 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM
OK..So it wasn’t just me.
IrishEi on February 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM
RACIST!!
right2bright on February 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Chuck…wipe your mouth off.
dmann on February 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM
I’m sure that when an American city disappears it will be because team Obama was too thorough on something else..or something…..or?????
jukin on February 3, 2009 at 6:33 PM
That is funny, the image I have is several guys going over the forms and saying “Look at that, never thought of that one…whoa, here’s a new one…oh,oh, the ol’ The car is just a loaner…”
right2bright on February 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM
couln’t have said it better
what a complete asshat obama sucking asskisser.
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on February 3, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Just the news? How about when they roll out Dobermann on sports shows?
Wade on February 3, 2009 at 6:38 PM
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
misslizzi on February 3, 2009 at 6:39 PM
And I’m gonna give you up
I’m gonna let you down
I’m gonna run around and
Desert you
And I’m gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
I’m gonna tell a lie
And hurt you!
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Obama’s vetting team spends all its time ensuring that the nominees can pass muster with the crowd at HuffPo and Daily Kos. Who among those nitwits worries about trifles like taxes?
BuckeyeSam on February 3, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Memo to Chuck: fat, white, liberal news propagandists shouldn’t wear the goatee. You are already burdened with a look too stupid for television; adding the goatee is a form of masochism.
Jaibones on February 3, 2009 at 6:43 PM
What is the world coming to I ask you. Not even any honour amongst thieves anymore.
PercyB on February 3, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Rhyme, minstrel, Rhyme
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:44 PM
One of Allah’s screencap pictures the other day had Obama looking like the tail end of an all-nighter. It’s been two weeks, and he looks like he hasn’t slept in three years.
Putz. He doesn’t have one of Bush’s nuts.
Jaibones on February 3, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Todd said the stimulus plan was more important than Tom.
The President said all the jobs lost recently and in the future months are on the gop for blocking the stimulus plan.
getalife on February 3, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Cause that stimulus plan would create jobs.
Raaaaiiiiggghttt
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:46 PM
It’s funny…the way he was talking (I won’t say reporting), it sounded like he was personally involved in the vetting process and was making lame excuses for his own failure.
AUINSC on February 3, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Hey, they can’t really criticize Obama. The truth is, he is their great black/minority non-western hope.
Obama represents minorities and liberals against what they see as the traditional white Christian male power structure. If he does a shitty job against them, they know it on some level, but aren’t going to seriously complain given what they see as the alternative.
JiangxiDad on February 3, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Sink me, blatantblue, if I’m a little late with a rhyme. I am going out tonight and am having trouble with my damned cravat. Simply refuses to tie. I ask you. Sticking out like a pincushion.
PercyB on February 3, 2009 at 6:51 PM
All is forgiven
Enjoy your night off minstrel
blatantblue on February 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM
HAAAACKs and FRAUDs.
marklmail on February 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Today it was reported that Ahmed Mohammed al Bin Muhammed Ahmed was interrogated and released by the FBI 3 days before the bomb went off in NY. However, due to the fact that the FBI – on Obama’s orders – was so thorough, they missed the nuke Mr. al Bin Muhammed Ahmed had in his suitcase.
angryed on February 3, 2009 at 6:55 PM
HAHAHA.
Boy that is funny.
How did the GOP block it again? It passed the house just fine without them, you nit wit.
Chuck Schick on February 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM
That’s like saying that the North Vietnamese kept McCain prisoner for 5 and 1/2 years to protect him from being harmed by the the anti-war protesters in America.
Mark Levin calls MSNBC MSLSD: Chuck, today you must have taken in the full allotment.
technopeasant on February 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Did anyone see Obama tell Charlie Gibson a string of WHOPPER LIES on the news? OMG That guy just looks into his eyes and FLAT OUT LIES. I hope people start to wake up.
marklmail on February 3, 2009 at 7:01 PM
From Fox:
“We can’t send a message to the American people that we’ve got two sets of rules — one for prominent people and one for ordinary people,” Obama said, defending his administration’s standards.
Didn’t he just resently tell us how much he supported Daschle.
the_nile on February 3, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Getalife has beautiful fantasizes he can spin you
Fantasizes to linger within you
Close your eyes and listen to the stories he will tell
He’ll spin you stories of Obama battles that fill he
And the battles that will be
For, you see, fantasy is one thing he does well
PercyB on February 3, 2009 at 7:10 PM
MSM triple timing for their guy.
If the Fool commits murder, it will be a good murder, a necessary murder.
notagool on February 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM
First it was hundreds of stories on the onerous vetting process.
Vetting, vetting vetting. Answering hundreds if not thousands of questions. Unprecedented. Strictest ever. etc. etc etc.
Most incompetent administration ever, so far.
Clinton needed a Republican congress to help him find his groove. Obama hasn’t got that luxury and is surrounded by hacks and operatives.
Lonetown on February 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Is Obama stupid? OR Crooked? It has to be one or the other, right?
marklmail on February 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM
At this rate, after 4 years, Obama will look like Benjamin Buttons did when he was born.
DrStock on February 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Todd the TOOL!
Love is in the aaaaaiiiirrrrr….everywhere i look aroooouuuunnnnndddd!
bunch of cracker rrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacistssssssssssss!!!
sandlin71 on February 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM
I wonder how dumb these people are?
I mean obamas so called questionaire
had all kinds of crap on it like
do you own a gun (you racist)
do you go to church (you bible toating nut case)
but the REAL important questions like
A. Have you ever been in trouble with
the irs
The fbi
the cia
The local police
B. Have you ever been charged with
avoiding taxes
Avoiding drug counseling
C. are you
a drug addict
a drug dealer
a tax cheat
a fraudster
a lier
a murder
a drunk driver
heck you might want to check if some of these so called liberal males really
ARE EVEN MEN..
come on it isnt hard here folks..
Absolute Morons
welcome to the democrats enlighened morass of
Absolute STUPIDITY…
jcila on February 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Yeah, that’s like having Hannity or Rush as the hosts of the pre-show for the Superbowl. This year’s pre-show had Olberman and Bob Costas on one panel. Costas is a complete tool/liberal elitist that looks down on Palin because she didn’t go to an ivy league college.
Callie C. on February 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM
If you believe this BS there are 3 great bridges for sale in St Louis area and I can get you a good price. Call Herb 555-1234
Herb on February 3, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Costas dropped out of college. I don’t think he looks down on Palin for that….prolly despises her, but not for that reason.
angryed on February 3, 2009 at 8:03 PM
i guess MSNBC ought to start asking those tough questions about vetting candidates for positions….like they did of mcCain when he nominated Palin………naah!
WTF is going on here?
wildweasel on February 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Doesn’t this belong in a “comedy gold” thread?
gryphon202 on February 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Seriously, what a douche. This clown was considered one of the possible replacements for Tim Russert’s role on Meet the Press.
jdflorida on February 3, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Get thee to a hosery.
Mason on February 3, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Chuck Todd is somebody’s boy…?
d1carter on February 3, 2009 at 8:33 PM
That’s a trick question, right?
irishspy on February 3, 2009 at 8:54 PM
I can’t resist. Can you picture what’s going on in Hillary’s head now? She’s thinking Obama is so crazy the country will, at some point, force him to hike like Nixon and poof; Biden’s in the chair she still owes payments on for losing.
ericdijon on February 3, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Was it Chuck Todd who said, “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia”?
hawkdriver on February 3, 2009 at 9:06 PM
These cases are such fundamental fuqups of basic political research that the only possible answer, if we are to believe that the Obamans are even REMOTELY COMPETENT AT BASIC CHORES is that they knew about it but were counting on a nation blinded by hopey-changey rainbows, unicorns and the rugged, worldly scent of He Whose Name May Not Be Spoken Unless in Messianic Reverance (pbuh).
Mike D. on February 3, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Heck of a job, Tommy.
Jim Treacher on February 3, 2009 at 9:11 PM
I thought Obama was the great almighty multi-processor, who, unlike McCain, was so cool and “together” that he could certainly do “more than one thing at a time,” remember?
Heck, Obama’s vetting struck out on BOTH the tax cheating AND the lobbying that wasn’t really lobbying because Daschle wasn’t actually labelled a lobbyist, per se, even though he got paid to essentially, lobby. (Run on sentence intended)
marybel on February 3, 2009 at 9:37 PM
God Forbid that Obambi ever faces a crises like 911. He’ll probably crumble into dust like a dying vampire in the movies or like that dude in the cave in the Indiana Jones Holy Grail Movie…
We should have elected grown ups as Potus/Vpotus
bullseye on February 3, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Stand up Chuck!
huckleberryfriend on February 3, 2009 at 9:44 PM
And, colder temperatures prove that the earth is warming.
John Eric on February 3, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Does one need to be a totally brainwashed, leftist tool to work at MSNBC? Is there not a single objective reporter on their payroll?
As hot as Norah is (and she is smokin’), I cannot stand to even look at this station. Not only is FOX a much better news organization, FOX’s foxes all have her beat by a landslide, by every measure – looks, brains and personality.
UltimateBob on February 3, 2009 at 10:06 PM
First time – not all that funny
Second time – annoying
Third time – stupid
Please try a LITTLE harder to entertain us with some good comments. I know you can do it!
UltimateBob on February 3, 2009 at 10:11 PM
God Forbid that Obambi ever faces a crises like 911. He’ll probably crumble into dust like a dying vampire in the movies or like that dude in the cave in the Indiana Jones Holy Grail Movie…
We should have elected grown ups as Potus/Vpotus
bullseye on February 3, 2009 at 9:44 PM
if anything like that should happen on his watch, the only thing he will see is Michelle’s skirt yellin at him to come out from unda that desk….
suck, suck, wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!
sandlin71 on February 3, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Todd is a turd. Recall how bad he was during the election race? Obama was under extreme pressure from Reid and others to get Daschle back on the government hog tit since they were trying to get even for him getting voted out of office by the conservative block. When the wheels started coming off the wagon Rahm saw the handwriting on the wall and told BO to throw him under the bus. I called the White House yesterday and the lines were apparently tied up with similar calls asking to dump him. The ad dredged up from Daschle’s election in 1986 was the best nail in his coffin. Off course we got Dodd, Frank, Reid and many more do different than Daschle and we’ve got to get rid of them somehow.
wepeople on February 3, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Yes we are really screwed.
Basic math is beyond team obama. What happens when we get to multiplication, much less algebra on the world’s stage.
Jimmy Carter must be smiling.
jukin on February 3, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Yeah. That was my thought too.
Biden introduced the “taxes are patriotic card” into the game.
Now we can unabashedly, justifibly, question, Daschle’s patriotism.
And Charley Rangel.
Al Franken.
Tim Geithner.
Nancy Killefer.
And there are probably others in the pipeline.
Those are merely sleazy politicians. (yes…redundant)
And while their actions are a virus in the body politic, they aren’t the existential danger posed by our enemies.
And this is the administration that will now be in charge of vetting the intentions and strengths of those enemies.
That causes me discomfort.
soundingboard on February 4, 2009 at 4:42 AM
You must learn the TaObama, where there are no mistakes you just aren’t enlightened enough to see how everything fits in with the ONE’s Master Plan.
eaglewingz08 on February 4, 2009 at 5:05 AM
Yep, snowed here in Fayetteville NC (Again, third time this year) and I’m in my house freezing my baguettes off thinking about folks who have actually died in Kentucky from a two week ice storm that Barry doesn’t seem to care about and it just convinces me, that the Earth is warming. I heard compelling evidence on MSNBC.
hawkdriver on February 4, 2009 at 7:21 AM
Maybe the useful idiots at MSNBC could explain why the Great Lakes didn’t even exist 5000 years ago. They were under a sheet of ice 2 miles thick. I guess Ogg drove a mean SUV in 3000BC and his wife Oggette used a hell of a lot of hairspray on her body.
From Wiki
Look at the graphic on the Wiki page and you see that the lakes were at least partially iced over by the Laurentide Ice sheet until 5k years ago.
So, that freaking ice sheet has been slowly but surely receeding for 10,000 stinking years. Any notion that man caused that is beyond stupid. Perhaps we could speed things up a little but I’m not even sure about that. Larger factors than man are at work. But, as you said, the leftist tools at MSNBC keep spouting the mantra…
bullseye on February 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM
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