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...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 he withdrew so that his mistake would not “be a distraction?...
...Tom Daschle, Barack Obama’s now-withdrawn nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services and the new White House Office of Health Reform, should have paid his taxes.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...
...choice to guide the health-care reform that Obama promised on the campaign trail. "I accept his decision with sadness and regret," said Obama, who spoke with Daschle by phone on Tuesday and was said to be surprised by the withdrawal, according to White House senior adviser David Axelrod. "Tom Daschle has devoted his life to public service and health-care reform so that every American has access to health care they can afford. I had hoped that he could bring this passion and expertise to bear to finally achieve that goal, which is so essential to the progress...
...After Tom Daschle met with his former colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee behind closed doors on late Monday, the Obama Administration's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services told close associates the session had gone well. Daschle said privately that it looked as though he would weather the controversy that had begun with revelations that he had failed to pay $128,000 in taxes, most of which arose from his use of a car and driver provided to him by a private-equity firm for which he had consulted...
...many Senators greeted Daschle's withdrawal as a sad but necessary move in order for the Obama Administration to move forward, some said the controversy didn't warrant the move and that such levels of scrutiny could make it increasingly hard to find qualified individuals to enter public service. "Tom made it very clear he'd made a mistake, and he took responsibility for it," Senator John Kerry said in a prepared statement. "I believe that when the smoke clears and the frenzy has ended, no one will believe that this unwitting mistake should have erased 30 years of selfless...