Daschle Quits!!!!

2 comments February 3rd, 2009

Looks as if Tom Daschle has taken the advice of the New York Times. He’s withdrawn his nomination to be HHS secretary.

Maybe if I don’t pay my taxes I can get a job in the Obama cabinet. Ya think?

1 comment February 3rd, 2009

It’s an outrage that people who don’t pay their taxes are getting high posts in the Obama administration. Tim Geithner now runs the treasury department and the IRS. He hadn’t paid some $34,000 in self-employment taxes until his “error” surfaced during the vetting process and he had to pay them.

Today,  Associated Press reports that Nancy Killefer, “who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.” “Nancy Killefer has decided to withdraw her nomination, and we accepted her withdrawal,” Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said Tuesday. The 55-year-old executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co., was expected to explain her reasons for pulling out later in the day.

“When her selection was announced by Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation for household help.”

Then of course there’s Tom Daschle, Obama’s choice for Health and Human Services secretary. Daschle, defeated majority leader of the U.S. Senate, is now a wealthy lobbyist. He failed to pay $134,000 in back taxes, and has since paid $146,000, which includes interest, to cover the bill.

I agree with this New York Times editorial, calling on Daschle to withdraw his name from nomination.

This, Mr. President, is not change we can believe in. This is the same old corruption. It  tells me that Mr. Obama has one standard for high government officials and lobbyists, and another for everyone else.