February 3rd 2009
Yet Another Obama Tax Cheat
Tax goblins continue to plague the newborn Obama administration. It has to be tax goblins; it can’t be a shameless denial of civil responsibility by Democrat after Democrat, because such a denial would be oh, so hypocritical – imagine calling for higher taxes on wealthy people while refusing to pay your own taxes! Why, it’s unbelievable!
The latest to fall, in a splendid display of poor and outrageous performance, is Obama’s pick for chief performance czar, Nancy Killefer. She decided that unlike the rest of us, she didn’t have to pay unemployment withholding taxes on her two (not one but two) nannies. The case must be pretty cut and dried because she didn’t even try to hide under Obama’s skirts like Tom Daschle and Tim Geithner are doing.
Killefer should know better. She’s a top exec at the luminary-hiring consulting firm McKinsey, specializing in government agencies. She served previously as assistant Treasury secretary for management, in effect the the chief financial officer and chief operating officer for the department which as among its responsibilities those ol’ tax-collectors at the Internal Revenue Service.
The new, transparent, change you can believe in Obama administration refused to utter a word about Killefer’s dilemma ever since the story broke Jan. 7. Today their statement was terse:
“Nancy Killefer has decided to withdraw her nomination, and we accepted her withdrawal.” (AP)
Supposedly, Killefer will explain the reasons why she withdrew today. Maybe we’ll hear her say, “I cheated. I don’t deserve the job.” Maybe not.
Meanwhile, the U.S. must struggle on without a performance czar, and a major new executive bureaucracy is stuck without a leader at a critical point during its gestation. How can it perform without a leader? How can government perform without it? How can we perform without government mandating how we are to perform?
Ponderous questions all, that no doubt will be answered by Obama’s new czar for ponderous questions.
As near as I can tell, 21 Bush appointees resigned their office during his eight years. Some resigned for reasons that probably would not force a Dem to resign, like Dep. Sec. of State Randall Tobias, who left his office after his name turned up in DC madame Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s little black book. Even without that handicap, it looks like the Obama admin is setting a course for smashing Bush’s record on resignations.
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