Tom Daschle apologized for neglecting to pay $150K of taxes.
http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=D963R1OG0&show_article=1

"President Barack Obama said he was "absolutely" sticking with his choice for health secretary"
- From this I conclude Obama favors bringing another proven crook into his administration.

On 1/30/09The Wall Street Journal Reported:

Mr. Daschle made the payments to cover a luxury car and driver provided to him by an investment firm where he was an adviser after leaving the U.S. Senate in 2005, but which he didn't report as income, people familiar with the report said. The payments also covered unreported consulting income and unwarranted charitable deductions. The tax period covered 2005 through 2007. Mr. Daschle told committee staff that he had grown used to having a car and driver as Senate majority leader and didn't think to report the perquisite on his taxes, according to staff members.

This is made to order. On a lighthearted level this man's hypocrisy is amusing, but on a serious level it is disgusting. Daschle is nothing short of a discgrace. That Tom Daschle, a tireless advocate of socializing health care, cheats on his taxes is another example of the liberal creed: Do as I say, not as I do. If wealthy people like Mr. Daschle, the $150K tax cheat, do not want to pay their high taxes, who is going to pay for Mr. Daschles expensive socialist schemes? It is tough to stomach these people. Would an ordinary citizen face stiff penalties and possible prison time for evading taxes?

Obama has now continued to support the nomination of two men who cheated on their taxes: Daschle and Geithner. From this it is reasonable to draw the conclusion that Obama is comfortable surrounding himself with crooks. I think this says something about his judgement and who he is as a person. Birds of a feather flock together. If Obama is comfortable hiring known crooks under the spotlight with which the media covers the president, lord only knows what kind of peopl he associated with when he was not in the spotlight. Naturally, Blago comes to mind. I think Obama is going to run into some problems down the line when the honeymoon with the deranged and duped who voted for him is over and enterprising reporters dig up more of his past.