Tom Daschle Withdraws As Secretary of Health and Human Services  

I'm also wondering who will be picked to replace him. I know most conservatives don't like Daschle much but I've always liked and respected him. I've seen him on different talk shows in recent months and he's very knowledgeable about health care and how to save some of the money that's wasted by Medicare and Medicaid without taking away quality of care. I think it's really sad and a good example of a good person making a big mistake, which I think it was, an honest mistake.
Annie

An honest mistake? He owed the IRS over a $100,000.00
Heck if that was you or me we would be sitting in jail with Wesly Snipes. But because he is a politican it is ok. I am tired of the double standard. Politicans need to be held to the same standard everyone else is.

I don't know how you could call him honest when he discovered the discrepancy in June yet didn't pay it till JANUARY as a result of his nomination.

I'm not making excuses for him but giving him the benefit of the doubt. I'm also not saying he had any choice other than to withdraw. I DON'T think he deserves to be executed for it. It's not like he committed war crimes or violated the Constitution or anything like that.
Annie

A REPUBLICAN for Secretary of Health and Human Services? You're a funny girl...lol!
Annie

Ah ha see you didn't think about what I said, if Obama is able to get more Republicans out of the House and Senate they could possibly be replaced with Democrats....

Got it! The only problem with that is Obama appointed a Republican for Secretary of Commerce but the Democratic Governor has appointed a Republican as his replacement as part of the deal! Can't you see a Republican Governor doing that...lol?
Annie

Fox news is reporting there may be more to this then meets the eyes,Robert Gibbs just awhile ago finished up talking with the press,they seemed to be digging for something more then this guy just dropped out on his own,Gibb's repeatedly said it was Dashell's choose to redraw his name,the press did not seen to so fast buy that as all the truth.

Guess people see something more then what has been said because Tim G.a serious tax evader who refused to pay his tax's even after getting notices from the IRS is now head of the IRS,so it is clear Dashel with less of an offense would had been appointed by Barack Obama and the democrat house,so it unclear as to why he actually stepped down.


Seems there is talk over the very questionable appointments that Obama has made it has tarnished his creditability as president of the United States with many American's

With 2008 tax year here many Americans are very upset over these crooks and for sure in my opinion Barack Obama has not sent a very positive message to the American people.

I could just see George W. Bush setting these crooks up in higher office,George Bush is beginning to look like a choir boy, LOL

Makes about as much sense as letting the fox guard the hen house!LOL

Kind of makes one wonder - did Obama know these people owed the tax man and so appointed them so they'd pay up LOL

I'm not defending his tax issues either and I agree he had no choice but to withdraw. However, he may not have sailed through confirmation as some may think, but we'll never know now. I understand the woman who withdrew this morning had owed under $1000 due to something to do with unemployment insurance for a domestic worker and I think I heard it had happened several years ago and had long since been resolved.
Annie

I've made mistakes, too, Ainge, as have all off us or we're not human, are we? I think it's really sad that this happened because, as I said earlier, I think he'd have been excellent in that position. You're so right, everyone in any political office is a human being just like the rest of us and there's not a one of them who is perfect but neither are we. Mistakes happen, things get overlooked, forgotten or put off; the important thing is that we learn from our mistakes, admit that we've made them and not make the same mistakes again.
Annie

Well I'm not going to call him honest since he actually discovered he owed taxes back in June yet waited till January to pay them. What I will say is that I think he genuinely cared about Obama and determined that it was better for Obama if he withdrew. From what I've read he endorsed Obama back in 2007, before he was a front runner. I think his withdrawal showed the integrity that Geithner completely lacked.

Linda Daschle has been a lobbyist for some time, that's no newsflash. She had stated she was going to give it up when her husband was appointed. It was also no secret who Daschle had worked for and what he did.

Daschle told NBC's Andrea Mitchell himself that his decision to withdraw came after reading the NYT editorial this morning. If you want to believe there was some other deep, dark motive involve, who am I to try to tell you otherwise!
Annie