www.Politico44.com reports YET ANOTHER ONE:
“Nancy Killefer, who was slated to be the White House’s first chief performance officer, is withdrawing her nomination, an administration aide confirms.
“Administration officials declined to say why Killefer was pulling out, promising more details later. But the former McKinsey consultant faced a $900 lien in 2005 on her home for not paying taxes on household help.”
BUT… HHS nominee Tom Daschle and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner failed to pay thousands and thousands in taxes and Daschle even had to ‘edit” previous tax returns to also reflect charitable donations that were elevated beyond the truth.
Daschle and Greitner just needed to apologize for their “honest mistakes” and “innocent oversights” and all is forgiven…but add Nancy to the Kimba Wood and Lannie Grenier list of women who were pushed out for far less…
I think Pres. Obama and the beltway boys are underestimating how damaging and resentment-fueling these tarnished appointments are to the public’s trust for the government that is spending the PUBLIC’s tax dollars on corporate bailouts, incompetent CEO bonuses and endless war.
As Americans across the country are filing their personal taxes this winter, do you think if they fudge a few thousand here or there that the IRS will accept “It was an innocent mistake, so sorry” from them. If they get caught perhaps they can wait for trial with Madoff in his Manhattan penthouse!!
The beat goes on…and on…and on…President Obama: what you appear to be, be REALLY.
For a while, all we heard about was the comprehensive screening document that prospective employees had to sign. Did people just not complete them, or were they intended for just the little people?
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p>I don’t like the very faint echo of Jimmy Carter I’m starting to hear…
Emily Yoffe:
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p>H/t teacherken
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p>The gentle reader might recall Gingrich’s House holding hearings on the terrible, terrible things the IRS was doing to people. Thereafter we got cut backs in the IRS’s enforcement budget. Even a brief skim of Callahan’s The Cheating Culture would lead one to predict the results.
Not enough enforcement!
It’s Newt’s fault – he’s the Republican in this discussion.
In case, like me, your perception of Tom Daschle had been of a soft-spoken but loyal liberal-Democratic fighter, who unfortunately lost his seat in the tilt rightward after 9/11, check out Greenwald’s summary of his career as an unparalleled corporate servant and greedhead.
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p>May not be safe for work, though, if you have a sensitive gag reflex.
withdraws.
these folks have no shame….and those who wink and say “it’s okay because you are the only one who can fill this job” have no shame either.
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p>Just call the rest of us Shmoe…(that’s what they think of us)
And I think if Geithner had been the second (or third) shoe to drop rather than the first, he very well may have.
Looks like Pres. Obama is spending his political capital in the wrong places. If they knew about Daschle’s tax problem they should of never nominated him.
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p>Everyone cheats on their taxes!!! When you make millions the cheating just gets higher!
Some give to charity and do not claim it, some do not file every minute deduction that may be out there…some actually give to their church they claim on their taxes…some do not exaggerate business deductions…some just pay what they owe and then some…and watch it frittered away by greed, power and influence peddlars.People who cheat on their taxes try to soothe their own guilt by saying…”everyone does it, so it’s okay for me, too”…then they complain when their favorite service or program is cut.
Have you?
….and I’m a Republican!
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p>I find cheating in any activity revolting.
Geithner is the only one w/ public tax issues who kept his position, and that was probably because everyone felt we needed to get someone in charge of Treasury ASAP. It does sound that the tax issues were a little bit confusing in his case, but considering what position he is taking, it is deeply embarrassing.
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p>On the face of it, it does appear that Killefer’s issue was minor, but we don’t know if that is the whole story nor do we know that the Obama administration asked her to withdraw.
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p>What is more troubling for me is that Daschle was ever considered in the first place, regardless of his tax issues. He has been too much in bed with big business to be a credible leader for health care reform.