More tax trouble for President Hopenchange

This time the man B. Hussein Hopenchange picked to ram through his Universal Healthcare project forgot to pay his taxes.

Tom Daschle, shortly after being nominated as the newly minted position of director of the White House Office of Health Reform, filed amended taxes to pay an assessed $128,203 in taxes and $11,964 in interest.

First Gov. Richardson is forced to step aside as the noose tightens around his neck in a federal probe of his part in New Mexico's pay-to-play scandal.

Then the man nominated to the post of Treasury Secretary, who will be running the I.R.S., forgot to pay his taxes for 4 years, despite repeated warming and being partially reimbursed for his income tax liability. (American employees of the IMF are given a stipend equal to their estimated federal income tax in order to put their pay on par with the foreign employees who pay no such income tax. But that stipend is also liable for taxes, so his only true out of pocket tax liabilities are on the stipend.)

Now it is announced (six weeks after the fact and on a Friday evening so it misses the weekend newscycle) that Tom Daschle, formerly one of the most liberal Senators to sit in Congress, under reported his income, over reported his charitable contributions, and neglected to claim personal services provides by your employer count as income.
Is this more examples of Obama's poor decision making as demonstrated by his long term friendship with Bill Ayers and even longer term mentoring relationship with Rev Wright?
Or is this an example of Obama's hubris that he believes the corrupt people he surrounds himself with will not tarnish him?

Or in order to get the DNC nomination did Obama relegate himself to a mere functionary position and others are really calling the shots?

In just a few short months we've gone from "We are the ones we've been waiting for" to "They are good people who were sloppy and made mistakes."

I undertand that they are socialists who claim to share my pain as they raise my taxes, but at least these arrogant so and so's can pay their own tax liability. Don't have Biden admonish me that it's "time to join the team" as a prelude to higher taxes when the leaders of the Obama team choose not to pay their's.

Hope? Nope.

Change? Not yet... the game is the same, only the names are different.