Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name from consideration to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination to be Health and Human Services secretary.
That’s according to a joint White House statement from President Barack Obama and his former nominee.
Obama said Tuesday he accepted the withdrawal “with sadness and regret.”
Nancy Killefer has withdrawn her nomination for Performance Czar.
Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.
Killefer was the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after President Barack Obama announced their selection.
“Nancy Killefer has decided to withdraw her nomination, and we accepted her withdrawal,” Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said Tuesday. The 55-year-old executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co., was expected to explain her reasons for pulling out later in the day.
This isn’t bad news at all. The plan to stealthily implement nationalized health care has hit a speed bump and one less “czar” in Washington is a good thing.
Oh well, I guess some tax cheating Democrats are more equal than others.
our new president should have shown a bit of courage and rescinded the offers in the first place. and that goes for geithner as well (in fact, even more so for geithner).
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I’d be more than happy to buy a one-way ticket to Kenya. Lets make it 4 tickets.
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I heard a caller on an afternoon talk radio program say that he gets it now! How Obama is going to pay for this “stimulus plan”: He’ll just keep nominating all these Democrats and make them pay their back taxes! Hahahaha!
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I heard the same thing!
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