If you’ve been following the news you’ll know that Obama has been having a bit of trouble pulling his cabinet members together. According to this new post Tom Daschle just withdrew his nomination for Health and Human Services Secretary (HSS) amid concerns over conflict of interest and tax “evasion.” Daschle isn”t the first (maybe not the last) nominee that has had troubles… Nancy Killefer was going to be Chief Performance Officer and also had some tax problems. Before that we had Bill Richardson and his scandal about awarding a state contract to one of his political donors… Obama is not off to a good start it would seem; I don’t recall ever hearing of a President having so much “trouble” filling the cabinet posts. I’m not sure if Obama is just unlucky or if he is nominating some really questionable people.
Its rather funny that the Democrats responses are shock and dismay. Its like they are saying “this is unheard of, how could a democrat be so stupid and corrupt?!?!?!” though for most normal people it’’s probably not much of a surprise.
