The OBH’s have a vetting process and its looking pretty obvious that “paying your taxes” was not part of the vetting process – ever. Nancy Killefer is now the THIRD – thats right THREE TIMES A CHARM folks! – Obama appointment to roll over and look like a dead fish before getting into office. Timothy Geitner was the first one to be revealed and he squeaked through because well, we were all wanting so badly for everything to go well for the new administration. Then you had Tom Daschle. And he isn’t looking so good, as I wrote before. Now you have Nancy Killefer who is getting out when the getting is good. If this keeps up she knows a place in the Obama administration is the least safest spot in the land.
Nancy Killefer says she is withdrawing her candidacy for chief performance officer because she doesn’t want her tax issue to become a “distraction.” Killefer failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help.
This lack of political radar is looking like it is really hurting the new administration. And chances are, the lack of understanding starts at the top and trickles right on down. Will the neophyte learn enough in time to pull out of his dive bomb position? Will the Obama battleship go belly up?
The latest news is that Killefer’s withdrawal is another nail in Daschles coffin.
Stay tuned!
Is anyone vetting these people? Good grief! Obama isn’t doing himself any favors with these picks…
Yeah, yeah, kinda reminds me of the Clinton impeachment and the righteous indignation of House Republicans over the presidents’ dalliances … that is, until self described smut peddlar Larry Flint of Hustler magazine (“I do know my customers”) turned the light on and congressmen started scurrying for the shadows like cockroaches. Rep. congressman Henry Hyde, chairman of the Judiciary committee, leading the impeachment, was to be next Speaker of the House, no. 3 spot in the government, if Flint hadn’t exposed his “youthful indiscretions”. Damn! If that danged Clinton would’ve kept his zipper zipped, Hyde would have been Speaker.
Todays Democrat senators and congressmen find their own righteous indignation tainted by the “financial indiscretions” of their own fair-haired hero’s, Richardson, Geitner, Dashcle. Damn! If Obama hadn’t nominated Tommy Daschle he coulda kept that $134,000 in unpaid taxes and no one would of ever known. Dang that doggone Obama.