Wonderboy Attempts To Duck Daschle Issue

It's proving to be a very early end to Obama's honeymoon with the voters who elected him President only a few months ago.

First, Wonderboy nominated and pressed for confirmation on cabinet tax cheat #1, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

Next, cabinet tax cheat #2, Tom Daschle, was found to still owe in excess of $200K in taxes.

Then, just yesterday morning, 'chief performance officer' nominee Nancy Killefer withdrew her nomination over a $950 lien on a residence as a result of a tax delinquency.

By 2PM, Daschle had announced his withdrawal for the two positions he was to have in the cabinet- health czar, and HHS.

By way of damage control, when Fox News anchor Chris Wallace interviewed Wonderboy later that afternoon, the latter claimed that his major concern was who would now lead his healthcare initiative. He glossed over Daschle's tax problems and, more importantly, his own insistence, up to the morning before Daschle's withdrawal, on Daschle's confirmation.

Rather than admit to vetting errors, and his own now-consistent choice of tax cheats and, counting Richardson, suspected felons, for his cabinet, the First Rookie instead said he took 'full responsibility,' but not for choosing a tax cheat. Rather, he said it was for failing to have an HHS Secretary ready to confirm.

Meanwhile, in answer to Wallace's questions about Wonderboy's breaking his campaign pledge to hire no lobbyists, he claimed it was 'only 3 out of hundreds of appointments.' So now he's already splitting hairs.

Funny, because he sounded a lot more categorical back on the campaign trail.

In fact, Obama is ducking the entire collapse of his precious transition process. His Treasury Secretary still has no plan for his economic sector. Hillary has no plan for the Mideast. Guess it was a surprise to her and Wonderboy that they'd need one?

Yep. The best transition in history. Oh, yeah!

Three tax cheats, one candidate under investigation for bribes, and loading up on lobbyists.

And he's not finished filling his cabinet yet.

Tom Daschle's Shameful Tax Cheating

As the late, revered President Ronald Reagan might say of Wonderboy's most recent broken promise,

"There he goes again!"

This time, the New Messiah has insisted on appointing tax cheat and former Democratic Senator (and Senate Minority Leader) Tom Daschle as Secretary of HHS.

Daschle's tax cheating is not small potatoes. Oh no. He owed over $100,000. And, just like Tim Geithner, Wonderboy's new Treasury Secretary, Daschle didn't think it was important to obey the law and pay the taxes until....he was nominated to a cabinet post.

It seems that some friend of Daschle's gave him a car and driver. You know, normal gifts between friends. Tommy then conveniently "forgot" to pay the tax on this non-cash income.

Oh, and Tommy forgot to pay the medicare taxes on the driver, too. Apparently he just wrote that check to the government this week.

Much has been said by others regarding the punishment you or I would suffer, had we committed this offense.

But, as I noted in the Geithner situation,

"If the first objection is simply ignored, then we have to consider his intent. That is, maybe it was deliberate. Or deliberate dismissal of his needing to observe rules and laws applying to everyone else.

You know. Those little people. The people who aren't Tim Geithner, important financial sector hotshot."

This time, word is that the Democrat Senate majority will vote along party lines to confirm one of their own as a cabinet officer, despite his incredible violation of our nation's tax laws.

Of course, by continuing to back, let alone insist on the confirmation of both Geithner and Daschle, Wonderboy has lost all credibility that he is bringing any sort of meaningful, positive change to Washington.

Or that he has any sort of moral high ground, compared to anyone. Instead, he's degrading the cabinet-level offices of our country by populating them with tax cheats. Tax cheats who are forgiven violations and penalties that you or I would surely suffer, were we to be found guilty of the same offenses.

And make no mistake, neither Geithner nor Daschle have argued they are innocent. They've admitted their guilt by paying the back taxes without protest!

Whatever ethical issues may have existed in the Bush administration, this new President has already outdone Bush 43 in plumbing a new low in Washington ethics, scandal and criminal behavior by insisting on the nomination and confirmation of admitted tax cheaters.