Feb
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On hold with the IRS
February 19, 2008 |
I am currently on hold with the IRS, as I have a fairly simple tax question to ask of them. What better way to kill the time than to write a blog post. Let’s see how far I can get into this before one of their representatives actually gets to me.
So, umm, what’s up? Okay, I should probably write something a little more interesting for you, the kind reader. We can start with the news that Fidel Castro is reaigning. This is surely great news for the Cuban people, who now will have to endure the rule of Fidel’s even more psychotic older brother.
Speaking of communism, my call was answered, but then I was supposedly transferred to someone who can answer my specific question. However, I am still hearing Danube’s Waltz or whatever that piece from 2001 is, and it seems I am just being put back in the original queue.
Anyway, as Fidel is probably soon to meet his maker, I am refrained on commenting on the future of his soul. That said, he might want to tell his people to throw some sunblock into his coffin, just in case.
Barry Zito, now that Barry Bonds is no longer a teammate, has magixally grown a pair and now isn’t so keen on defending the Barroid. Surprise surprise.
Now that John McCain is the presumptive nominee, can we put to bed the notion that the current nomination system only leads to the nomination of the most ideological extreme candidates. (Now they’ve switched back to Moazart.) Since the re-nonmination of Ronald Reagan in 1984, the Republican nominees have been George HW Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and John McCain. None of these were the most conservative guys running, and they were all moderately right-of-center. Meanwhile, while the Dems have nominated some very left-wing candidates like Mondale and Kerry, they trotted out members of the moderate, “third way” Democratic Leadership Caucus (DLC) three consecutive election cycles.
(Now I’m being shifted somewhere else again. And now I am hearing static. What the hell is wrong with the frakking IRS. Seriously, I am now ready to kill someone. This is frakking ridiculous. Incompetent motherfrakking idiots. That’s it, I’m voting for Huckabee. Now look at what they’ve made me do. And now I am back on hold. Again. Have to start all over. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR)
Where was I? Oh yeah, so it doesn’t look like the political analysts have exactly gotten this meme right. A case can be made that John McCain is actually the most conservative Republican nominee since Reagan - and indeed Ramesh Ponnuru hints at that in the latest edition of National Review. He is certainly more conservative than the elder Bush or Bob Dole, and he is probably even more conservative, at least tempramentally, than the current President. He didn’t back the Bush tax cuts, but he did so for justifiable conservative reasons, namely the lack of any corresponding cuts in spending. McCain also voted against Bush’s Medicare prescription plan, and in doing so he acted out of firmer conservative principles than President Bush. And while he pushed the odious campaign-finance law, it was the President who signed while acknowledging the unconstitutionality of the thing as he was signing it. And of course McCain and Bush were on the same page regarding amnesty.
So, that said, John McCain is hardly a Ronald Reagan. He is a moderately conservative Senator. The nomination process can hardly then be said to push the most ideologically extreme candidates, can it?
Representatives still helping other customers. I can only imagine the level of “help” they are receiving. Wow, I am actually back to the original musical piece, that’s how long this third time on hold has been. Okay, now, someone answered. And I am being transferred. Again. Can I actually talk to someone who knows what they are doing?
Estimated wait time: more than 20 minutes.
Get my gun.
Okay, I don’t even think I have 20 minutes of material. I don’t have the ability to vamp that well. I’ll get back to you as soon as someone actually talks to me, which should sometime before April 15, I hope.
And thank you Turbo Tax. I can see that buying your product has given me the valuable assistance I needed during this time of year. “Call the IRS” was an immeasurably beneficial piece of advice.
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I am currently on hold with the IRS and I just read your blog and as you were saying that the hold music was switching between musical pieces, so was my hold music, exactly in tune with reading what you were saying they were switching to. I haven’t been transferred 90 times but they have not even answered. I have been on hold throughout my entire lunch break which consists of 30 minutes. I also cover the front receptionist’s break for 30 minutes after mine and her break will be over in five minutes and I am still currently on hold. It’s amazing because I am actually putting the IRS on hold every time the phone rings to answer the other phone calls and am having no difficulty what-so-ever.