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...Tuesday, Barack Obama uttered three words seldom heard in Washington: “I screwed up.” Yet following the implication of a third high-level White House appointee in income tax arrears, the president isn’t the only one who should be issuing mea culpas. Earlier this week, heath and human services secretary pick Tom Daschle became the second of Obama’s nominees to withdraw his name from consideration because of tax problems. This happened only a few hours after prospective chief performance officer Nancy Killefer did the same. Daschle explained that...
...Daschle, Barack Obama’s now-withdrawn nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services and the new White House Office of Health Reform, should have paid his taxes. It is the right thing to do, of course, and the fact that a man of his intelligence could not file a tax return properly—or that a man of his wealth could not afford a good accountant—is puzzling...
...while ethics in politics is an important cause, it pales in comparison to that of health-care reform. While it would be nice if our politicians played by the same tax rules as the rest of the public, an improper tax return has never caused a death. A failure to mention a source of income has never kept medicine from the sick. By sinking the nomination of a man who had by far the best chance of enacting a fair and equitable health-care system in the United States, supposed liberals like the New York Times editorial board may have...
...Gregg could be an excellent Secretary of Commerce. He understands the problems business faces and the dangers that further tax increases and regulation mean for business and the nation. He would no doubt have to speak loudly if he wants his voice heard in an Obama Cabinet." -Joseph McQuaid, publisher of the New Hampshire Union-Leader, in an editorial published...
...nearly every major issue - from the auto bailout and the stimulus bill to tax cuts and the delicate question of whether to investigate Bush Administration officials for crimes related to torture - Pelosi has voiced and even pushed through the House differing positions from the President, at times to the embarrassment of Democrats. Obama and Pelosi each, of course, have distinct motives, and personalities: Pelosi is a partisan warrior who must tend to her caucus, while Obama got elected as a postpartisan healer, implicitly attacking the old ways of Washington and striving to appeal to a broader national base...