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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...
...militants continue to fire rockets. On Tuesday a medium-range Grad missile struck the Israeli port city of Ashkelon in what may be Hamas' closing shot before an Egyptian-brokered truce finally takes effect. Hamas and its supporters have claimed victory as a result of simply being able to survive the fierce Israeli onslaught. As a result, Hamas says, Israel lost the political battle - its pummeling of Gaza and the heavy Palestinian death toll has offended many former supporters, leaving Hamas' political position strengthened. But in battle, Israel clearly held the upper hand. During the conflict, very few of Hamas...
...medical system and his understanding of the workings of Congress, he had seemed like the perfect 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...
...Tuesday morning, it became apparent that the storm was only intensifying, and Daschle, recognizing the change in the political winds, withdrew his name from consideration for the Cabinet post. Several editorial pages - including the New York Times's - had called on him to withdraw. And there was a new allegation, reported by Politico, that Daschle had recommended the very businessman who had supplied him with the car service for two Cabinet posts in the Obama Administration. As one close adviser put it, the case for Daschle had "appreciably deteriorated from 24 hours ago." (See who's who in Obama...
...very things Obama had promised to change in Washington. And coming on the heels of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's failure to pay nearly $40,000 in taxes, Daschle's nomination was turning into fodder for political opponents and late-night comedians. It didn't help matters that on Tuesday morning, another Obama appointee, Nancy Killefer, withdrew her name from consideration for the position of chief White House performance officer amid reports that she had failed to pay unemployment taxes for household help in the District of Columbia...