That's the money you could be saving, like Geithner!
GEITHNER!
Posted on 02/03/2009 1:01:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Two of President Barack Obama's top picks for government jobs sensationally withdrew Tuesday, in bombshell announcements which rocked his young administration and tested his vow to clean up politics.
Tom Daschle, the nominee to lead Obama's ambitious healthcare reform and Nancy Killefer, his choice for budget watchdog both quit after becoming engulfed in storms over past unpaid taxes.
The departures were the first grave challenge to Obama's administration, distracted from his effort to force his huge economic stimulus plan through Congress and called his promise of a new era of ethical politics into question.
"This morning, Tom Daschle asked me to withdraw his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services," Obama said in a written statement.
"I accept his decision with sadness and regret."
"Tom has made a mistake, which he has openly acknowledged. He has not excused it, nor do I," Obama said, saying the former senate majority leader had devoted his life to public service and health care reform.
"Now we must move forward with our plan to lift this economy and put people back to work."
Daschle said he had decided to withdraw his name because he did not want to be a distraction for Obama's ambitious plans to reform healthcare.
"We need the best care in America to be available to all Americans," Daschle said in the statement issued from the White House.
"Lives and livelihoods are at stake."
Daschle's decision emerged hours after Obama's nominee for White House budget czar Nancy Killefer withdrew her nomination, reportedly over her failure to pay past unemployment taxes for household help.
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Is Daschle not the least bit embarrassed by the stupid Sally Jesse Raphael glasses on his face?
That's the money you could be saving, like Geithner!
GEITHNER!
someone needs to photoshop the GEICO cash pile on the faces of the income tax dodgers.
Sounds like a job for REGISTERED
Did Daschle as a Senator ever meet ONE tax he didn’t love?
This is really delicious, showing their sanctimonious ‘for thee but not for me’ attitude.
Tommy’s Terrible Tuesday makes me laugh out loud.
Time to put the screws and spotlight on Charlie Rangel tax problems if the pubs want to get movement on lowering taxes.
I guess the Democrats created their own tax cut. Just don’t pay them.
Wasn’t this the same media that tore an ordinary dude from Ohio apart for his tax leins, simply for asking a fair question?
Here they make Tommy Tax Cheat sound like some fallen hero...
So do we also count Blagojevich’s impeachment for filling 0bama’s Senate seat and Caroline Kennedy’s withdrawal for not paying nanny taxes (scheduled to replace Clinton’s Senate seat due to Hillary being appointed by 0bama as SoS)?!
I must admit to some (perhaps diabolical) sense of satisfaction to see these smug, self-righteous, egotistical SOBs go down in flames. I hope they all crash and burn.
WTF does that mean exactly? Will Little Tommy be prosecuted? Is a Grand Jury empaneled to 'get to the bottom of it'?
Has some idiot Senator called for hearings?
This clown of a President makes it sound like Daschle farted and didn't mouth the proper words, not commit multiple Tax Felonies over the course of several years.
L
Now if only his Treasury Secretary would resign...
That is complete and total BS!
I get so sick of hearing that statement when it is so dishonest. They devoted their lives to lining their pockets (and that of their family, friends), period. Most of them have never had a real job that didn't include influence peddling.
You must be joking.
His problem was a total catastrophic failure of TurboTax to recognize he had entered false information.
Tune in next week for more Geithner Twilight Zone moments in "The Computer Must Have Screwed Up While My Dog Was Eating My W-2 and W-3 Forms."
< /sarcasm >
“Tom has made a mistake, which he has openly acknowledged. He has not excused it, nor do I,” Obama said, saying the former senate majority leader had devoted his life to public service and health care reform.”
If mr obama does not excuse it, why would he abide it.
Imagine the points he might have gotten by standing up for integrity.
This is not the obama I knew . . . oh, wait. Yes, it is.
So THAT’S where Gretas’ bags went!
Thank God the bloom is finally coming off this hideous rose. It must really pain the MSM to have to report imperfections.
Schadenfreude, oh how sweet is schadenfreude! I revel in it like a three year old playing with a puppy in a pile of fallen leaves! Ain’t I disgraceful?
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