UPDATE: Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name from consideration as the next HHS Secretary.
“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.”
–Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507.
Well, ain’t that a glitch.
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
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LOL….That’s an awesome quote from a man that needed to back pay over $100,000 in taxes…oops
Simon why you got to be such a right wing nut job?
If I didn’t know that was Tom Daschle, I’d swear it was some smarmy televangelist. Maybe he’ll ask God to call him home while his secretary is polishing his knob and he’s screwing old ladies out of their Social Security checks.
So, the obama cabinet has 2 tax cheats? Sweet! Gotta love the do-as-i-say, not as-i-do government!
Remember the Motto of the Democrat Party:
Operor ut Inquam , non quis EGO operor.
And d’ont forget it.
That we know about.
Guess the party!
I didn’t see one (D) in that story. You betcherass it would have been (R) Sarah Palin. Sorry it was her name that popped into my head. I think he looks like Maury Povich.
Try a little experiment with me:
Scroll back up and cover the left half of Ol’ Tom’s face with a piece of paper. Don’tcha feel all warm and fuzzy now? Tom’s a great guy. Tom loves us! Smile Tom, smile.
Now cover the right. There’s the guy who ate your puppy for breakfast.
Pasta, you called it! Although I notice that all the Republicans in the story are carefully identified.
And friendly Girl, do you mind translating? I must have..er..forgotten to go that high school Latin class I took…
Well like the saying goes, “The more things change…….”
Embrace the new “Change You Can Believe In”, people. :-p
What else is new? Obama is supporting him for his “mistakes.”
Obama is also saying that this economic mess will take years instead of months. Gee, isn’t that different than what he said on the campaign trail. The more I hear this guy, the more I get a strange feeling inside of me and it is not warm and fuzzy. More like heartburn.
Democrat media loves to play Drop the (D).
I guess he didn’t want to give a bigger piece of his pie. Wasn’t that what we were told? Can I choose not to pay those taxes and pay them when I want to get a job working for the President?
And yet the real douchebags are the Republicans who roll over and refuse to challenge cheats like Daschle.
I wonder if he used the money he owes on his taxes to pay for his bad hair plugs?
How does someone get so in arrears with their taxes? I didn’t know about a student loan that my husband had defaulted on. Luckily, the state where he borrowed, wrote it off. So the amount that was left was reported as income. The IRS contacted me within a few months and we made arrangements to take care of the bill. How does $120K slip through the cracks?
“Kyl suggested that Obama is benefiting from his popularity and a double standard, and that President George W. Bush’s nominees might not have survived similar mistakes.
“President Obama wanted to have a very ethical administration starting out and so on, but I think he’s seeing how hard it is to avoid these kind of problems,” Kyl said. “And I just wonder if President Bush had nominated these people, what folks would be saying about that.”
gee, you think?
He reminds me of Ted Haggard. Sleazy.
Minnow, that is freaky! You are SO right.
Look on the bright side, Obama has already generated almost two hundred thousand dollars in tax revenue. From his cabinet.
Right on Snoop.
Hi winewife,
Do as I say,
Not what I do.
Thanks, Reaver, I needed that optimism today. It’s been a tough start to the week.
You can do an entire feature on Joe Biden. He is the biggest deceiver in the Obama administration. You can start with the sad story he likes to tell about his first wife’s accident.
Snoop, Pasta — those were brilliantly said.
Suppose we all stop paying our taxes. Not only would the IRS be on our doorsteps about three seconds from now, but I doubt an “I’m sorry” would work.
Right wingers moralize about sex; left wingers moralize about money with every bit as much sanctimoniousness. Daschle is no different than Jimmy Swaggart in this regard.
Daschle, Rangel, Geithner, Dodd… Feel the hope ‘n’ change yet?
Free Wesley Snipes!
From Hot Air….
The Obama transition team knew full well that Daschle had significant tax problems when that vetting process began. Why did Obama insist on keeping Daschle at HHS? Daschle had spent the last few years as a high-profile lobbyist for the industry Obama wanted him to regulate, which is exactly what Obama promised not to do during the campaign. So now we have a lobbyist and a tax cheat rolled up into one person, whom Obama insists should run Health and Human Services, and he knew all of this well before announcing Daschle and submitting his name for confirmation. It’s not like Obama can claim to be surprised.
No Christopher, see Wesley actually said he wasn’t going to pay his taxes, where as Daschle hid his “mistake”. It’s all about perception, even though Daschle knew about this since last summer he didn’t make a move to pay it back till he was offered the job in PEBO’s cabinet. That makes him not guilty since he forgot, or the dog ate his note from his mom, or something….
Since Tom Daschle’s tax problems started with his use of a private car service, can we now officially say that he put the “Limousine” in “Limousine Liberal”?
This administration stuff just keeps gettin’ better and better.
Jake Tapper this morning:
Another Tax Problem for Obama Nominee
February 03, 2009 10:28 AM
The informal battle between members of the Obama Administration and the Taxman resulted in a casualty Tuesday, with news that President Obama’s nominee to be chief performance officer, Nancy Killefer, will withdraw her nomination following the revelation that she had a $946.69 lien on her property in 2005 for failure to pay taxes.
Killefer, who was announced to much fanfare by President Obama on Jan. 7 to serve in the new position to make the U.S. government “more effective, more efficient, and more transparent,” is the third high-level Obama Administration official whose failure to pay taxes in recent years was disclosed in the past month.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/another-tax-pro.html
jenn – I saw this article today and saw where you posted about Obama and his “promises”
PROMISES, PROMISES: No lobbyists at WH, except …
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama promised a “clean break from business as usual” in Washington. It hasn’t quite worked out that way.
From the start, he made exceptions to his no-lobbyist rule. And now, embarrassing details about Cabinet-nominee Tom Daschle’s tax problems and big paychecks from special interest groups are raising new questions about the reach and sweep of the new president’s promised reforms.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_reform_promises_2
And we have a number #3
Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy
WASHINGTON (AP) – 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.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9646DBG0&show_article=1
I’m glad he chose to withdraw his nomination. Either he has a shred of decency or Rahm Emmanuel put him in a headlock and gave him a noogie until Tom said Uncle.
Angry Army Wife – mind blowing isn’t it. It is like Obama did not listen to anything he himself said.
Yerrrr….OUT!!! (bee-hahch)
So who’s the next Dumbocrat to withdraw?
Minnow, Reaver, and Angry Army Wife: I salute you, respectively and respectfully, for making me laugh, and for making me think.
Awww thanks Beige.
I’m still laughing over Demi reciting lines via thigh control. That one’ll have me snickering all evening.
“Out, out, damn’d spot. Out, I say!” (slap, slap, slappity slap)
Genius.