Feb. 1, 2009 - I'm just sayin...
Understand I am not applauding bonuses to failing execs. I live in the real world where my husband's bonuses are actually tied to performance, so I share the anger all Americans feel about this. Stick with me here.
Let's compare that anger to the so far ho-hum response to Daschle evading taxes by saying that he had become so used to car and driver that when it was supplied to him as a lobbyist, it never occurred to him to pay taxes on it. This is the man we want in charge of creating a lean and efficient new health care system? That's nearly as absurd as imagining a tax evader and chief watchdog of the Wall St .banks during the crash as our new Secretary of the Treasury. Oh, wait. We already confirmed Geithner.
Let's try a little experiment. Don't pay your taxes this year and when the IRS comes after you, just tell them it was but a "hiccup." You'd only be borrowing Senator Reid's excusal of Geithner.
Used to be that these types of "mistakes"--and is it a mistake if you wait years between knowing about it and paying up a la Geithner?--put the kibosh on a nomination. I guess the rules are different now. But it doesn't make me feel much hope.
Blessings, Holly
