T: Is for trouble in the cabinet

One has to admire Tom Daschle stepping down because of taxes owed. Nancy Killefer, who was appointed chief performance officer and deputy OMB director, has also withdrawn because of non-payment of taxes. Isn't it time for Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to do the same? Geithner never answered the question put to him by senators Kyl and Bunning: Would he have paid his back taxes if he were not nominated to run the Treasury? His issue has never been resolved. He will never have the full trust of the country, but does he care? Daschle spoke out and said that he would not have been able to lead a reform of the nation’s health-care system “with the full faith of Congress and the American people.” Geithner will not be able to lead a reform of the nation’s financial system either. 31 no votes were cast against his nomination, the largest nay vote for this post. He still has a tremendous ethical problem. President Obama has made much of the need for a new era of responsibility and ethics. Obama is right. It is a matter of honesty. No one is irreplaceable.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has $5.9 million in debts left over from her unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign.
This amount includes both $12 million owed to vendors and the $13.2 million she loaned her campaign from personal funds.
Clinton's campaign was unable to repay that personal loan by the time the Democratic National Convention convened, the deadline mandated by the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. As of January 21st, Clinton became subject to a federal law known as the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from personally soliciting or accepting political contributions. So Clinton has her mother, Dorothy Rodham, sending out the last of a series of e-mail fundraising pitches asking for donations to help her daughter took. The Hatch Act does allow others to continue to raising funds on Clinton's behalf, though without her direct involvement. And what about all that money in Dubai, why has nobody ask this question.

I want to have faith in our new President. I voted for him but these selections leave room for doubt and that is a F.A.C.T.