Third Obama Nominee Tax Cheat Quits
From the Politico:
U.S. President elect Barack Obama appears with Nancy Killefer (R), his appointee as White House Chief Performance Officer to oversee budget and spending reform during a news conference at his transition office in Washington January 7, 2009.
Tax problems fell OMB official
By JONATHAN MARTIN | 2/3/09
Failure to pay taxes will fell at least one of President Obama’s appointees.
Nancy Killefer, who was slated to be the White House’s first chief performance officer, withdrew her nomination Tuesday, saying in a letter to the president that her tax delinquency would cause political hardships.
Killefer, in a five-sentence letter released by the White House, said she had “come to realize in the current environment that my personal tax issue of D.C. Unemployment tax could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid.”
The former McKinsey consultant faced a nearly $950 lien in 2005 on her Washington, D.C. home after not paying taxes for a year and a half on household help.
The lien was disclosed when Killefer was appointed in early January to a new OMB position aimed at streamlining government and rooting out waste and inefficiency…
“She has nanny tax problems that may not have been insurmountable on their own, but given the Geithner and Daschle cumulative effect, she had to withdraw” said a Senate source informed of the withdrawal.
Obama aides didn’t immediately answer a barrage of questions from reporters about Killefer, the most pressing of which was: how did her appointment go through in the first place and did she disclose her lien upon being tapped?
The questionnaire Obama made all nominees fill out is explicit on the matter, asking them if taxes and Social Security obligations were paid on household help.
The “current environment,’ as Killefer put it in her letter, poses political danger to Obama… Obama ignored a shouted question Monday morning from CNN’s Ed Henry after a White House ceremony announcing the selection of Sen. Judd Gregg as Commerce Secretary as to why so many administration appointees are having tax troubles…
This is craziness.
Aren’t there any Democrats who pay their taxes?
Can we question their patriotism now?
Joe Biden’s smug statement in the above video should be juxtaposed against every one of these tax cheating appointees of Obama’s, but the willing accomplices we call the MSM are definitely going to do their best to make these embarrassing, amateur moves by Obama a thing of the past. Quickly, too.
The MSM will put these inconvenient truths down the memory hole. That’s why the headlines are trying to distract us with non-stories like: Olympic swimmer Phelps partying in S.C.; Christian Bale throwing a temper tantrum; Jessica Simpson’s weight loss.
We need to be hearing how we’re going to respond to Iran’s first home-made satellite (with ballistic missile-guidance components), N. Korea’s test of long-range missiles, and Hamas’ continued missile attack against Israel, but it isn’t in the hearts and minds of the over-educated pansies we call editors, producers, and reporters in America’s newsrooms.
Well at least he’s consistent in his cabinet. Seems that a lot of them have some sort of tax problem.