Story of the day: Another two bite the dust...
Jeez oh man.
In proof that powerfucking in politics never is good, Tom Daschle (pictured above, straight from his Harry Potter fan club meeting) removed himself from confirmation of being the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. This is after days of revelations that Daschle had failed to pay income taxes on his consulting work, with led to his overstating charitable deductions, which led to the coup de grace of his neglect to report his use of car & driver service. Now even before the car & driver service he had to pay $140,000 in back taxes. $140,000. How much is passing through you if that's just the underpayment?
Now this tax thing is shady to ascertain what went wrong from his nomination, since it remains to be seen how much Daschle kept from Obama's vetters, or how much those vetters delved into his finances. But the second fork of his demise is the growing concern that his web of ties to lobbyists and health care providers totally run against the program that Obama had sold the country on, this I lay on Obama's head, for knowingly nominating Daschle in the first place. And it apparently took the big, bad Grey Lady to knock it into Daschle's head to remove himself.
And I give prop's to President Obama to man up and admit he faltered just a little in his mandate of ethics. However, I think he listens to Villagers (and Rahm Emanuel) a bit too much. Remember this forboding from just a week after the election.
And none of this would be an issue if he got a clue and had Howard Dean in at HHS, where he truly belonged. If you don't, and don't have an direct explanation why not, you've only proven that you're Emmanuel's bitch.
And here's Jon Stewart's take. Driving Miss Daisy Indeed!
And to cap it off, here's Daschle's a propos old campaign ad...
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