Well, I guess even Barack can go too far. He's had to accept Tom Daschle withdrawing his name from consideration for Secretary of Health & Human Services. Along with Tom, he also lost Nancy Killefer as a candidate for chief performance officer. The woman who was chosen to make the government run better dropped out because of her past failure to pay unemployment taxes for household help at her D.C. home.
Obama says, "I screwed up." But, shouldn't he have learned a lesson from Bill Richardson, who was his first choice for commerce secretary and withdrew amid a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors?
Barack's Baghdad Bob Gibbs says, "The bar that we set is the highest that any administration in the country has ever set."Well, what good is the bar if you allow a multitude to sneak under it?
"I’ve got to own up to my mistake," says Barack. "Ultimately, it's important for this administration to send a message that there aren't two sets of rules — you know, one for prominent people and one for ordinary folks who have to pay their taxes."
As usual, Barack doesn't get it right. It's not the difference between prominent and ordinary, it's the difference between honest and dishonest.
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