No kidding.Faced with problems over back taxes and potential conflicts of interest, Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination on Tuesday to be President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services secretary."Now we must move forward," Obama said in a written statement accepting Daschle's surprise request to be removed from consideration. A day earlier, Obama had said he "absolutely" stood by Daschle.
Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader and a strong backer of Obama's presidential bid, said he would have been unable to operate "with the full faith of Congress and the American people."
Last week, the Senate confirmed Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary despite his tax problems.[...]
[Daschle’s] stunning statement came less than three hours after another Obama nominee also withdrew from consideration, and also over tax problems. Nancy Killefer, nominated by Obama to be the government's first chief performance officer, said she didn't want her bungling of payroll taxes on her household help to be a distraction.
Oopsie. Another illegal?
”A distraction.” These people think not paying their taxes is a distraction from the important work they need to do.
Obama’s team is either not “vetting” the picks very well, or it’s simply business as usual up there in Washington.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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