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Another Obama nominee withdraws over tax problems
Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.Killefer was the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after President Barack Obama announced their selection.
The White House said Obama had accepted Killefer’s decision and that the 55-year-old executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co., would explain her reasons for pulling out later Tuesday.
When her selection was announced by Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help.
Tom Daschle also withdrew his candidacy today after it became clear that his failure to pay $146,000 in back taxes had become yet another millstone around The One’s neck.
Mr. Daschle withdrew a day after Mr. Obama unequivocally declared that he would stand behind him as his problems over income tax arrears were scrutinized on Capitol Hill. The nominee’s tax issues had developed into a troublesome distraction for the president, who entered the White House pledging to hold his people to the highest ethical standards.The president said he accepted Mr. Daschle’s sudden withdrawal “with sadness and regret.”
Later, the chief White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Mr. Daschle had made his own decision to withdraw. “He did not get a signal” from the White House, Mr. Gibbs said.
But there was no suggestion either that President Obama had tried to persuade Mr. Daschle not to pull out, just as there was no hint that the president had tried to dissuade Nancy Killefer, his choice for chief White House performance officer, from withdrawing earlier in the day. She, too, cited tax arrears, in her case District of Columbia unemployment taxes.
What was that President Obama kept touting during his campaign? Why, I believe it was regarding his judgment.
Yep, President Obama sure can pick ‘em. Actually, I’m glad that both of these crooks aren’t going to be part of Obama’s cabinet after all. But I’m still plenty pissed off that Timothy Geithner was confirmed as Treasury Secretary despite the fact that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes.
Sean Hannity reminds us this isn’t just an isolated incident:
Here’s the question. Why don’t liberals pay taxes? We kept hearing the Caroline Kennedy had a tax problem. Timothy Geithner has a tax problem. The committee that writes tax law, the House Ways and Means Committee, well their chairman Charlie Rangel, whoops sorry, he failed to report seventy-five thousand dollars in income. Oh it’s a hiccup, it’s not a problem, and of course we have I guess, the hero of every liberal is Al Franken and Al Franken didn’t pay his taxes in what, eighteen states or whatever it was at the time. I mean just absurd.
So are we to assume, as Biden implies, that these Democrats are (wait for it) unpatriotic?
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
