TAPPED gets Kaus again.
Minuteman's suggestion to Kaus that Krugman should do a piece on Jon Corzine's tax returns is bogus. He describes Corzine "opining about corporate reform," but references an article from nearly two months ago in which Corzine is talking about accounting reform -- specifically, a bill that forbids accounting firms from selling consulting services to their auditing clients. Corzine's old company, Goldman Sachs, does not provide auditing services. So it would be impossible for Corzine to be earning profits (via his shares in Goldman Sachs) from the same kind of arrangement that he's trying to outlaw. On the other hand, if any reporter can find Corzine getting on his high horse about off-shore tax havens for rich people and such, whilst discovering that some of Corzine's own considerable personal wealth is stashed in the Caymans, that might be a good story. But you need a more specific charge to make the hypocrisy angle stick. You can't just blather vaguely about "corporate reform" and "tax and accounting schemes" and then demand Corzine's tax returns. And since 97 senators voted for the Sarbanes bill, you should really be asking for a whole lotta tax returns... [posted 2:25 pm]
This is the final proof that Kaus is what I've always thought he was. He's now down to the kind of groping in the dark that characterized the Great Clinton Cockhunt, and whose logic still pervades the average dittomonkey brain. I now picture him typing with one hand, Ann Coulter poster on the wall, grunting Corzine...Wall Street...Tax Return.... Terry MacAuliffe...Global Crossing..Options... Hillary...Satan... Rubin...Citigroup..Something... , as he works himself into a feverish climax targeting Democrat after Democrat with bizarrely senseless charges.
