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talltex wrote:

Purplehood wrote:This whole administration is starting to remind me of Tammany Hall.

I know, I know... y'all could have told me that 4 years ago.

EDIT: OMG, you guys were serious about the Bush-connection! LOL.

It IS like Tammany Hall...but remember where BHO's political career was nurtured...Chicago...the closest thing to Tammany Hall in the modern era. The Chicago political machine has fed on corruption and payoffs since the days of Al Capone. Their Governor, who was forced out of office on corruption charges, then tried to auction off the Senate seat and acted like it wasn't a big deal when he got caught !

It's not a big deal in Illinois, 4 out of the last 7 governors of that great state have gone to prison. U.S. Reps. Dan Rostenkowski and Jesse Jackson Jr., lead a list of dozens of other office holders, power brokers, and fundraisers who have, are now, or soon will be serving Federal time for fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, bribery, extortion, malfeasance in office, etc. Antoin "Tony" Rezko (where did Obama get all that money?) is also numbered amongst them.

38cobra wrote:We started contributing to Tea Party organizations and candidates (Ted Cruz, etc) about two years ago. This year we had our first audit in 45 years of tax returns. Coincidence? Or maybe it was the NRA donation?

More likely a change in pattern of contributions and/or increase in amount over prior returns. Or so the agent told me when first we chatted during my audit a few years ago. For me it was both, we made a substantial one time donation to our parish building fund, as well as discontinuing contributions to our obscenely well endowed alma maters and switched to a more faith based giving program.