Tom Daschle

A change we can believe in?

To President Obama:  Can someone other than Tom Daschle run Health and Human Services (HHS)?  Your nominee for Secretary of  the Treasury, Mr Geithner,  didn’t pay $34,000 in taxes. And we now learn your Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle, didn’t pay $128,000 in  taxes. What’s up? It seems like you’re  losing political capital obtained during the election. Your run for the White House was based on the promise of  ”Change”; meaning change has come to America; and we got that message over and over and over.    To average Americans like me, the message means avoiding the appearance of tolerating special standards or the appearance of being above the law.  Mr Daschle recieved $2 million from InterMedia. However, he didn’t pay the taxes until after he learned he would be a nomine. If you hadn’t nominated him, maybe he wouldn’t have ever paid the taxes. It does seem a bit sleezy. Please don’t be like the Republicans. I payed my taxes last year and it wasn’t easy. We don’t need eight more years of an “above the law” attitude from the White House. Please find another HHS nominee.  There must be other qualified Americans who can run HHS while not having to defend attacks from the right on their record for paying income tax.