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Barack Hussein Obama seizes the Internet

A party-line vote of 3-2 has claimed the Internet for Barack Hussein Obama and his left-wing radical minions!

The Federal Communications Commission vote, which took place yesterday, now gives the federal government authority to regulate, ration and control what you see and hear on the Internet. THIS IS A SERIOUS BLOW TO FREE SPEECH RIGHTS... and must be met with deafening cries of protest from grassroots Americans nationwide!

Obama and his Socialist agenda has taken one giant step closer to controlling the unfettered access to news and information that we read and post on the Internet. This is nothing more than a statist power grab.

Let everyone know that Obama's objective is to silence the message of Liberty and self-governance under the guise of "freedom and fairness,"and urge them to take a stand with you by signing a national petition opposing this FCC takeover of the Internet.

Sign petition here:

http://www.grassfire.com/141/petition.asp?Ref_ID=4712&PID=26909582

"Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech."

- - Benjamin Franklin,

writing as Silence Dogood, No. 8,

July 9, 1722

Barack Hussein Obama and the FCC threaten our Internet Freedom

Obama's FCC is ready to steal our Internet freedom by simply declaring it has the "right" to regulate it. Exercising the freedom to challenge the lies that the Obama Administration puts out, that the so-called "mainstream media" simply accept and repeat as the truth, is being threatened. Undaunted after a stunning loss of control in Congress, liberals are poised to steal the Internet after a new series of Federal Communication Commission rules are introduced on December 20, and likely approved the following day. Threatened by the Tea Party successes, and determined to continue finding ways to advance their statist agenda, Barack Obama and his liberal cohorts are attempting to seize the Internet – the greatest mechanism of growth in our history (under the guise of promoting "freedom" for all), and if successful, they will be one step closer to controlling the unfettered access to news and information that we read.

Why must we oppose the intrusive FCC federal regulations that will clamp down on our 1st Amendment rights via the Internet? Because, historically, when government seizes liberty, it's gone forever.

Barack Hussein Obama will use the FCC plans to implement control of cyberspace by issuing regulations. Why does Obama want to impose censorship through regulation to control our freedom of speech over the Internet? So he can continue to spread his socialist propaganda without being challenged!

Freedom and openness should continue to be the governing principles of the Internet. Congress is required to give the FCC explicit statutory authority to impose Internet censorship. Although the federal judiciary has extended First Amendment protection to the Internet, Barack Hussein Obama believes that he has the executive authority, WITHOUT legislation enacted by Congress, to arbitrarily regulate who uses cyberspace and what access they may enjoy, based entirely on the content of the material that they wish to publish there.

The United States government should not dictate to us what we can and cannot do on the Internet. In just a few days, December 21st, Obama and his cronies are going to attempt to do just that; unless we fight back. E-mail your Senators and Representatives to stop Obama's takeover of the Internet.

Go to this web address to fax Senators and Representatives, before it's too late:

https://secure.conservativedonations.com/usjf_fcc/?a=5182

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."

- George Bernard Shaw

Federal Judge Rules Obama Health Care Scam Unconstitutional

Obama's health care scam suffered a serious blow Monday, December 13th. Clearly an over-reach of federal power, Judge Henry Hudson, of Virginia, ruled that the federal government cannot force people to buy health insurance.
Granted, Judge Hudson did not strike down the entire health care law, only the individual mandate provision. Perhaps if Democrats in Congress had read the bill, and adhered to the Constitution, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Rep. Eric Cantor, the incoming Republican House majority leader, said: “Ultimately, we must ensure that no American will be forced by the federal government to purchase health insurance they may not need, want, or be able to afford.”

Of course this is just one small step, but it is in the right direction in getting this unconstitutional, Socialist, economy crushing bill, REPEALED. Score one for Liberty, and the Founding Fathers!

“Congress should begin to repeal unconstitutional laws and start exercising congressional oversight of executive branch agencies that menace our freedoms.”

– Ron Paul

Political Malpractice

Many of the Obama zombies that supported his socialist health-care utopia, have conveniently been exempted from the same “medicine” that they expect the rest of us to take. The list of companies, (over 150, so far), and unions, (nearly 50, at this time), the Obama Administration has been granting waivers to one provision of the Progressives health care scam, has been growing larger by the day. These waivers deal with limited health benefit plans, sometimes referred to as "mini-med" policies, which have limits on how much can be paid out in coverage; limits which would be phased out under ObamaCare.

Could these waivers have been implemented because of political donations to the Democratic Party? Dishonest and unethical elected officials who trample on the Constitution, might just trade off favors like that.

For a complete list of companies and unions, to date, of approved applications for waiver of the annual limits, go to:

http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
-- Robert Heinlein

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

Excerpt from Tom Hayden article at The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091214/hayden

Obama's escalation in Afghanistan is the last in a string of disappointments. His flip-flopping acceptance of the military coup in Honduras has squandered the trust of Latin America. His Wall Street bailout leaves the poor, the unemployed, minorities and college students on their own. And now comes the Afghanistan-Pakistan decision to escalate the stalemate, which risks his domestic agenda, his Democratic base, and possibly even his presidency.

The expediency of his decision was transparent. Satisfy the generals by sending 30,000 more troops. Satisfy the public and peace movement with a timeline for beginning withdrawals of those same troops, with no timeline for completing a withdrawal.

Adding 30,000 to 35,000 US troops will raise the US death toll by over 1,000 by 2011 on Obama's watch, in addition to the 750 who died under Bush. The numbers of US wounded are rising faster than ever, with 300 counted in the past three months. Civilian casualties are under-reported according to the UN mission in Afghanistan. The budgetary costs are growing to $75 billion annually, and could become another trillion-dollar war.

"The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people."

- - Ron Paul

Obama's global warming hoax exposed

To the dismay of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, (Hadley CRU), emails have surfaced purporting a collusion to falsify findings regarding the accuracy of global warming data, from hiding evidence of ancient warming periods to outright manipulation.

Obama's Cap and Trade relies solely on the public falling for the scam that the Earth's destruction is caused by the carbon dioxide, (CO2), that emits out of our motor vehicles exhaust. CO2 is a trace gas comprising only 0.038% of the atmosphere. Of course this isn't about environmentalism. It's about a global redistribution of wealth justified by a fictional crisis, enacting an endless array of new taxes, regulations and an expansion of government power. Obama and the Climate Fascists at the United Nations, have devised yet another media manufactured scare tactic to bilk the public out of any and all wealth that still remains. This is a coordinated attempt to distort climate research for political gain, designed to destroy U.S. sovereignty and facilitate global governance.

Allegedly some of the most prominent scientists suggest:

• Conspiracy
• collusion in exaggerating warming data
• possibly illegal destruction of information
• organized resistance to disclosure
• private admissions of flaws in their public claims

Barack Obama and Al Gore are con artists, and the pseudo-scientists at CRU are exposed for what they really are – charlatans!

According to Al Gore, the high priest of global warming:

• The carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth.


• The polar ice caps will melt, and in turn, Pacific islands will be totally submerged and sea levels will rise 20 feet inundating the coastal cities.


• Global warming will disrupt the circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically changing climates, throwing the world food supply into chaos.


• We must change our lives and eliminate fossil fuels, as the future of our civilization is in the balance. http://theobamadeception.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-war-on-prosperity-continues.html

"So the Global warming frenzy is, indeed, threatening our civilization. Not because global warming is real; it is not. But because of the all the horrible side effects of the global warming scam." "The battle against fossil fuels has controlled policy in this country for decades. It was the environmentalist’s prime force in blocking any drilling for oil in this country and the blocking the building of any new refineries, as well. So now the shortage they created has sent gasoline prices soaring."
- - John Coleman [Founder of the Weather Channel ]
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/19842304.html

Barack Obama - 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

"The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Obama, the person who started a new war in Pakistan, upped the war in Afghanistan, and continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US government demands and relinquishes its rights as a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty." - - Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/10/09/upside-down-world-warmonger-wins-peace-p

"The Nobel committee, which apparently voted Obama as their winner sometime around Feb. 1, when he had been president for all of 10 days, claims their prize comes as a result of actual achievements. As such, Obama is being rewarded for his attitude and stance as a citizen of the world rather than the leader of a great nation - and that means actual accomplishments are of no real import." - - MacAoidh

http://www.redstate.com/macaoidh/2009/10/10/how-to-win-a-nobel-prize/

"He's basically emasculating this country and they applauded today with this award. We're in debt. Our dollar is worthless; taxes are going up everywhere. They're about to let Obama become our universal doctor, banker, and employer. We are about to move worldwide progress back to the cave era with the crap-and-tax plan." - - Rush Limbaugh

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_100909/content/01125106.guest.html

Barack Obama, 2009, recipient, is in good company. Other noted Nobel Peace Prize winners:

Yasser Arafat [1994]

The Peace Prize has been on a downward spiral for many years, but has meant nothing since 1994, when it was awarded to Yasser Arafat to reward his lifelong pursuit of terrorism.

A newly declassified report from 1973, shows that Yasser Arafat's Black September terrorists, during a reception at the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum, were responsible for the murders of Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr. and his deputy George Curtis Moore, as well as a Belgian diplomat. http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008796.php

Let's not forget these winners...

Al Gore [2007]

(the high priest of global warming)

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Mikhail Gorbachev [1990] (former President of the Soviet Union and global government advocate)

Jimmy Carter [2002] (39th President of the United States... he never met a dictator he didn’t like)

Apparently, one can win the Nobel Peace Prize if you:

1. constantly bash America
2. cater to our enemies in various forms
3. promote bloody endless wars that will bankrupt our country
4. try to destroy U.S. currency in order to make American citizens powerless
5. permanently weaken the economy and reduce it to governmental life support

International socialists recognize their own, I guess. Or maybe it's just the stench of Chicago corruption. The Nobel committee's anti-America agenda fits in perfectly with Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mm!

Government Censorship - Protecting You From Reality

With the track record of this administration, you can't help but conclude there is nothing the Chicago thugocracy won't try to seize control of:

banks - autos - the census - energy - the airwaves - medicine

And now the internet!

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), has spent months behind closed doors drafting a Senate bill revision, S. 773. This bill would grant the president dictatorial powers to take control of portions of the internet, by allowing him to "declare a cybersecurity emergency". Indeterminate authority to exercise this kind of power over private "non-governmental" computer networks, could turn our "free speech zone" into nothing more than a political propaganda machine.

"I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man."

- - Thomas Jefferson

Obama's War On Prosperity Continues: H.R. 3200 "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"

This government takeover of our healthcare system is unsustainable, as the recession will soon deepen even further, with the eventual collapse of the commercial real estate market. The closer you study this scam the more you will discover it's not about health or care, it's about changing the core principles of our country, ignoring the Constitution and disrespecting the work of our Founding Fathers.

Obama-care could limit important medicines and surgeries for seniors. Plus, how can Obama's government-run healthcare cover millions of additional patients without any new doctors? It can't.

Obama's media friends at ABC and NBC, refused to air a 33-second national ad by the League of American Voters, that was in opposition of the administrations healthcare plan. It's no surprise though, because earlier this year, on June 24th, ABC was the network that turned itself over completely to Obama for a day long propaganda fest about healthcare reform (excluding any groups with contrary views) and NBC is the network that sells 'all Obama, all the time' merchandise on it's site.

What can you find in H.R. 3200? This monstrosity will create 53 new Federal Bureaucracies, so there's sure to be a few things you can find to look up:

SEC. 1177. Page 354 - EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY OF SPECIAL NEEDS PLANS TO RESTRICT ENROLLMENT.
It appears the Government will restrict enrollment of special needs people.

SEC. 122. Page 29 Lines 4-16 -ANNUAL LIMITATION COSTS
This has the look of your healthcare being rationed.

SEC. 123. Page 30 - HEALTH BENEFITS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
A government committee that decides what treatments/benefits you get.

SEC. 1173A. Page 58 Lines 11-13
A health ID card will be issued. The first step no doubt, on the road to a National ID card. The opposite of what a free society is all about.

http://legislatorsagainstrealid.com/

SEC. 1173A. Page 59 Lines 21-24
Government will have direct access to your bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. Dr. Obama will make sure you never miss a payment.

"Champions of socialized medicine want to tax the rich, tax businesses that already cannot afford to provide health plans to employees, and tax people who don’t want to participate in the government’s scheme by buying an approved healthcare plan. Presumably, all these taxes are to induce compliance. This is not freedom, nor will it improve healthcare.”

- - Dr. Ron Paul

Here you'll find H.R. 3200:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090714/aahca.pdf

Obama looses labor thugs on tea party town hall protestors

August 07, 2009
Rick Moran

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/obama_looses_labor_thugs_on_te.html

The pushback by Democrats against conservative activists who have been flooding health care town halls across the country is starting to get ugly. Organized labor has now entered the fray, promising to counter conservatives at the events. Sure enough, labor thugs savagely beat a conservative activist after a town hall meeting put on by Missouri's Russ Carnahan. Leah Thorsen of the St. Louis Post Dispatch has the story:

• St. Louis County police say six people were arrested. Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. Carnahan was gone when the ruckus started. Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with "Don't tread on me" printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started. "It just seems there's no freedom of speech without being attacked," he said.

And who might have beaten Gladney? Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit writes that hundreds of tea party protestors were kept out of the event but that members of the local SEIU were directed to a side door and gained immediate entrance:

• In this video you see one Carnahan supporter allowed into the meeting at Bernard Middle School through a side door. There were 1,000 tea party taxpayers stranded outside the main door. When two SEIU members attempted to get in the same side door marked "handicapped" the crowd went nuts and blocked them at the door. Did you notice how nonchalant the SIEU members were about getting inside the door? Like they knew right where to go.Inside the gym they roped off two sections. One was for the tea party taxpayers and quickly filled up when they opened the doors at 6:00 PM.The other section was marked "reserved" and this section was saved for the union members.The rest of the crowd was locked out!

These have been the tactics of organized labor for 100 years. And given that the White House has ordered Dems to hit back "twice as hard," it doesn't take much to connect the events in St, Louis (and Tampa where more violence broke out) with what is going on at these meetings:

• They showed video clips of the confrontational town halls that have dominated the media coverage, and told senators to do more prep work than usual for their public meetings by making sure their own supporters turn out, senators and aides said. And they screened TV ads and reviewed the various campaigns by critics of the Democratic plan."If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard," Messina said, according to an official who attended the meeting.

The administration couldn't make it any clearer if they drew a map. Barack Obama is personally responsible for any violence that breaks out at these meetings. If he wasn't president and suggested that Democrats hit back "twice as hard," he would be held legally responsible for the violence that broke out in St, Louis and Tampa. But this is politics - the way the Democrats play it. It couldn't be any clearer that the goal of the labor thugs is to intimidate people from coming to these town hall meetings unless they are supporters of the president. Obama's labor brown shirts will continue these tactics unless the president himself calls them off. And given the perilous condition of his health care reform bill, there isn't much chance of that happening...

Video of incident can be seen at this link:

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/08/07/getting-in-their-faces-st-louis/

Obama's War On Prosperity continues: The Carbon Tax Scam

ELECTRICITY COSTS WILL SKYROCKET UNDER OBAMA'S ANTI-COAL ENERGY POLICY

Obama's next outrageous power grab, with the help of Rep. Henry Waxman [D, CA-30] and Rep. Edward Markey [D, MA-7], will greatly expand government control and increase energy costs for every family. The minimum estimated costs to the American taxpayer will be $650 billion over the next eight years.

Barack Obama, in a January 17, 2008, interview with the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate), - - excerpt:

• "Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there. I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases was emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year. So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
  When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know, under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

This system of energy "allocations" has failed in Europe and will politicize America's energy policy, not to mention bankrupt the coal industry.

This unjust scheme of Obama's to collect more taxes, comes in the form of a congressional bill, H.R. 2454. If passed, this bill would impose a cap-and-trade system in which businesses would have to purchase allowances from the government based on the amount of carbon dioxide they emit. By invasively manipulating an already over-regulated energy industry, this legislation seeks to fix an alleged problem that has recently been discredited by 1000's of scientists including the founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman, who said - - -

• "It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth. What an amazing fraud; what a scam."

Scam is right. Carbon Dioxide makes up less than 1% of our atmospheric gases and it has also been shown that CO2 is also needed for plant growth.

This new tax on energy promises to increase taxes for American families by $1,000's, as it would require businesses to use cleaner burning motor fuels, thereby raising their costs and increasing the price of goods and services to regular consumers. And according to the Heritage Foundation, between 1.2 and 2.3 million jobs could be lost over the next ten-years due to the bill’s stifling regulations.

Coal fuels half of U.S. electricity, and it’s the low-cost half. Americans strongly support the use of coal, but it appears Obama wants to "bankrupt the coal industry" with a burdensome tax code. So he essentially wants to shut down the coal business; and he's also very much in favor of skyrocketing electricity rates.

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."

- - Thomas Jefferson

The peace candidate seeks $83.4 billion to continue Afghanistan and Iraq wars

"Barack Obama’s election promise to bring “change” to Washington and reverse the juggernaut of the Bush war machine has proven to be nothing more than a cruel hoax"... - - Paul Joseph Watson

The Washington Post reported on April 10, 2009:

• President Obama sent Congress an $83.4 billion spending request yesterday to fund his administration's strategies in Iraq and Afghanistan through the summer, in what officials promised would be the last such off-budget proposal to pay for the wars.

Full article at:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/04/10/ST2009041000113.html

Obama's 17,000, new troop surge into Afghanistan, is expected to include 8,000 Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, as well as 4,000 additional Army troops from Fort Lewis, Washington. Another 5,000 troops will be deployed at a later date.

How can President Obama even think about fighting wars half way around the world while California goes bankrupt, while Americans are being turned out of their homes, while, as Business Week reports, retirees will work throughout their retirement (which assumes that there will be jobs), while careers are being destroyed and stores and factories shuttered. Americans are facing tremendous unemployment and hardship. Obama doesn't have another dollar to spend on Bush's wars.

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

- - George McGovern

By their deeds, you shall know them

Today the Obama/Biden tax rampage continued with a huge increase in tobacco taxes that took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000.

Obama said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12.

• "I can make a firm plege. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

He repeatedly vowed,

• "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."

Now in office, Obama, signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, thus increasing the tax by 156%. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.

Even the always trustworthy Joe Biden assured the American sheeple,

• "No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, "whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax."

The latest increase in the federal tax is by far the largest since its introduction in 1951, when it was 8 cents a pack. It's gone up six times since, each time by no more than a dime, until now.

"The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

~Ronald Reagan

Another day, another Obama nominee in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service

ADMINISTRATION OF SHAME - THE LATEST TAX CHEAT NOMINEE

Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently "corrected" three years of tax returns and paid $7,918, a paltry debt compared with Tom Daschle’s $140,000. —the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.

It appears the Governor of Kansas, is the latest Democrat who apparently doesn't like paying taxes as much as she likes doling them out.

• The HHS FY 2009 budget request outlays $737 billion which is a net increase of $29 billion over the estimated outlays for FY 2008.

By failing to pay her taxes, Kathleen Sebelius now joins a growing list of current and failed Administration nominees who think they are above the law...

Obama's honor roll of tax-cheats, SO FAR...

• Tom Daschle, the first HHS nominee
• Chief performance officer nominee Nancy Killefer
• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
• US Trade Representative Ron Kirk
• Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’s (husband)

Another brilliant nominee by the White House, the sweetest smelling house in America. Where everything comes up roses and all our worries can be washed away by printing trillions of dollars out of thin air, earmarked for wasteful spending.

"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."

~Barry Goldwater

...Yet another Obamunist tax cheat

Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The Senate Finance Committee on Monday revealed that President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, Ron Kirk, had failed to pay $10,000 in taxes over the span of three years beginning in 2005. The panel report comes after several other nominees faced controversy over tax issues.

Kirk, a former Dallas mayor, failed to report as income $37,750 in honoraria collected for 16 speaking engagements at Austin College, his alma mater, for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. He also deducted NBA Mavericks tickets worth $17,382 as entertainment expenses in 2006, 2006 and 2007, but has substantiated only $9,900 of the expenses.

Two nominees of President Barack Obama, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer, pulled themselves out of consideration in February due to tax issues. Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner had to overcome a controversy about back taxes before he was confirmed, while Labor Secretary Hilda Solis faced concerns about her husband's payment of tax liens.

“Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”

— Plato