Where’s a Mad Hatter when you need one? Is Barack Obama horribly confused or does he think his fellow countrymen are all idiots?
Today, Obama sought a friendly venue, going to CNN’s Anderson Cooper to “apologize” for “screwing up” by nominating a tax cheat, Tom Daschle, to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, Obama has already installed another tax cheat, Tim Geithner, at Treasury. At the same time, Obama’s pick for “chief performance officer” (whatever that is!), has also withdrawn over minor tax pecadillos. Three cabinet-level nominees with tax-cheat backgrounds has got to be some kind of record.
Anyhow, if we have to choose between having a tax cheat at Treasury or at HHS, the latter makes vastly more sense (and cents). Now that Daschle has withdrawn, it defies logic and Barack Obama’s transparent “change we can believe in” mantra to let Geithner stay on. No one in this country is so smart or so connected that we cannot do without him if he’s a lying thief. In face of this illogic, here’s Barack “Mr. Change” Obama speaking out on the Daschle debacle:
“Ultimately, I campaigned on changing Washington and bottom-up politics,” Obama said. “And I don’t want to send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards — one for powerful people and one for ordinary folks who are working every day and paying their taxes.”
And why did he say Geithner is still at Treasury? Sorry Mr. President, this is kind of change I cannot believe in. Get rid of Geithner and get back to me.
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We know that Mr. Hopenchange thinks his fellow countrymen are “basically decent.” Gee, thanks Barry, back at ya! But anyway, yeah we don’t want to “send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards” for tax-law-breakers — we have one standard here: First tax-cheat gets confirmed, all the rest must step down in the effort to ensure the adminstration doesn’t “send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards.”