APWASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he "absolutely" stands by Tom Daschle's nomination for secretary of health and human services.
The president gave the one word answer Monday about the matter during a meeting with Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas on the economic stimulus plan making its way through Congress.
Specifically, Obama was asked whether he still backed Daschle in light of the disclosure that the former Senate majority leader failed to pay more than $120,000 in taxes.
Daschle is Obama's second Cabinet choice to face tax problems.
President Hopenchange is standing by Daschel despite saying he will not appoint lobbyists to his cabinet. Daschel is a partisan hack, not an expert in anything concerning HHS. Why Obama would put himself on a limb to defend (yet another) tax cheat is amazing.
Perhaps because of all the lobbyists getting desks in this administration Daschel is the only cabinet level position and Obama prefers the attention be on Daschel's dubious ethics and feloneous tax evasion and not that he was an unregistered lobbyist married to a registered lobbyist.
While the "right" is concerned about ethics, the "left" is concerned about lobbyists. Although not too concerned because the administration is full of registered and unregistered lobbyists.
"Change you can deceive in"
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