Showing posts with label Obama cabinet picks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama cabinet picks. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Daschle Withdraws from Consideration for H&H Services Post

Kornblut and Kane report at the Washington Post minutes ago:

In a stunning reversal, Tom Daschle withdrew from the process to become secretary of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, citing the distractions that followed his failure to pay $146,000 in back taxes. His decision came as another prominent Obama nominee, Nancy Killefer, withdrew from consideration to be Chief Performance Officer due to similar -- though smaller -- tax lapses.


If this keeps up, Republican colleagues might label Dems something worse than “tax and spend liberals.” How about “tax the people, not us, liberals?”