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There\u2019s so much change going on in Washington right now that my head is spinning faster than Linda Blair\u2019s at a revival meeting. Former Senator Tom Daschle, Obama\u2019s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, is under fire for not paying over $140,000 in taxes for free use of a car and driver that was provided by a Democratic fundraiser. This is Obama\u2019s second nominee to brush off his tax obligations in what is becoming a disturbing, if not utterly predictable, pattern.<\/p>\n
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It seems the tax and spenders can\u2019t be bothered to dig into their own pockets, but they\u2019re ready to stick it to you and me. Obama administration officials called Daschle\u2019s skullduggery \u201ca stupid mistake,\u201d and decided Daschle should not be penalized because he had discovered the tax liability himself and brought it to the attention of the Finance Committee, which is vetting his nomination. Daschle said he realized in June 2008 that he might have a tax problem.<\/p>\n
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This doesn\u2019t pass the laugh test, even for the odious cesspool that is Washington. Daschle\u2019s \u201cstupid mistake\u201d took place over a period of four years, making them \u201cstupid mistakes\u201d\u2026plural. So this wasn\u2019t any oversight, but rather an ongoing criminal enterprise as they say in the racketeering game. Daschle would have us believe that he spends his free time combing over old tax records just to make sure he\u2019s paying his fair share\u2014how else to explain his sudden discovery that he\u2019d made a \u201cstupid mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It turns out Daschle is a two-sport athlete. He has spent the last four years doing lobbying work for K Street law firm Alston & Bird, where he received generous remuneration (can you say millions?) from the insurance companies and health care providers he will be charged with policing should he be confirmed. That makes two tax cheats and two lobbyists among Obama\u2019s nominees. And the night is still young.<\/p>\n
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Daschle has been a long-time confidant of Obama\u2019s, just another one of the Messiah\u2019s \u201cguys on the block\u201d\u2014those close acquaintances that end up being indicted, going to jail, and generally abusing their power, with Obama apparently oblivious to it all. The more things change, the more they stay the same. But fret not, rumor has it Daschle has a deadly hook shot from the low block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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