Now we find out that HHS Secretary nominee Tom Daschle failed to pay $128,000 in taxes related to limousine services provided by companies he was lobbying for (oops, I've just been informed he was not lobbying. He was merely helping businesses squeeze money out of the federal government. My mistake).
He will be regulating these same companies in his new job, but that's another story. We need to stay focused on the noble Obama White House ethics code, not the the swiss cheese farce it has become. Anyway Daschle was not a lobbyist, he was a "Strategic Advisor."
But it's all good: Daschle is a former senator and a Democrat, and he paid the back taxes once he knew he had no choice if he wanted the cabinet position.
I have lived in the third-world, and this is what third-world politics looks like. An arrogant political class, corrupted by money, burdens the people with onerous catalogs of legislation and taxes while blithely exempting themselves.
George Orwell was right. The pigs have taken over, and We The People learn that some animals are more equal than others.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-daschle1-2009feb01,0,4970462.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/us/politics/01daschle.html?ref=us
6 comments:
Daschel reminds me of every other beltway politician. You think these people would all just bore themselves to death eventually.
By the way. A must read if you haven't already..
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/redsquare/2009/01/28/cracking-the-obama-code-don-quixote-vs-the-windmill-owners/
SteveH
The wrong guy for the wrong position.
OHIO JOE
No he's the right guy for the position, another crook who fits right in the illegal Kenyan's administration. Tom DashHole as I refer to him.
i love tom's sally-jessy-raphael-red glasses.
I think he needs to be approved because he hasn't done anything in last number of years to able to afford to pay his taxes. He doesn't have the money and soon as he starts working have the IRS take the money out of his check. Then with in a few months nail him on takeing money from lobbyist then send him to jail. Then have obama pardon him. This just to much!!! redneck ron
The problem with politics is... we keep electing politicians.
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