Are you detecting a pattern here? So much for setting all kinds of new records in ethics.
Tom Daschle not only failed to pay $128,000 in taxes; he also neglected to disclose this quite pertinent fact to Obama's vetting team. Nicely done, Tom. Yet, I suppose, if he falls short of confirmation, the media will still chalk it all up to nasty Republican partisanship. It shouldn't, though; even the Swampland blog (or Twitter page, whichever it is) on Time.com notes that they feel Daschle's failure to inform Obama's people about the back taxes he owed poses a real problem for confirmation. Swampland is about the furthest thing from conservative in tone.
But, Daschle's problems go even further than that. He has also been paid $200,000 within the last year, in his role as an employee of a lobbying firm (though not a registered lobbyist himself), for making speeches to groups that he will now be expected to oversee.
Rush is so right. For so many Democrats, it appears that there really are no rules, only customs. Obama announces that no lobbyists will serve in his administration, then immediately exempts William Lynn and several others who have been longtime lobbyists. For the record, I don't know how you form a Washington team without using someone at some point, if not a goodly number of personnel, who have worked at some point for a lobbying firm. But it was Obama that castigated John McCain and others all through his campaign for using lobbyists. We know now it was just rhetoric, wasn't it?
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