Despair and Similarity

I find it interesting watching how Obama is ushering in hope and change in his first few weeks in the White House. Apparently that is short for "fill my cabinet with people who don't know how to pay their taxes."

• Timothy Geithner, your current Treasury Secretary
• Tom Daschle, candidate for Health and Human Services Secretary.
• Nancy Killefer, candidate for chief performance officer.

Does anyone remember what Joe Biden said back in the debates? Anyone? I recall it was Mr. Biden's (and presumably other liberals) position that paying taxes was "patriotic". He even defended those comments later on when the unions called him out. So if paying taxes is patriotic, and Obama is filling his cabinet with people who aren't paying their taxes...... Even the LA Times is writing about this today.

And let's not forget about Bill Richardson. Obama tagged him for his Commerce Secretary back in early January, but Richardson had to withdraw his name after being implicated in a pay-to-play scandel.

UPDATE:

Looks like we've got more tax cheats and Communists. I'll just keep an ongoing list as we hear of more and more.

• Hilda Solis, nominated for labor secretary - 2/5/09
• Rahm Immanuel, White House Chief of Staff - 2/18/09
• Charles Freeman, NIC nominee - 2/27/09
• Ron Kirk, US Trade Representative - 3/2/09
• Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services nominee - 4/1/09