The Obama Administration accepted the withdrawal of Nancy Killefer from the nomination of Performance Czar... SHOCKER... she had tax issues. Apparently the amount associated with her tax issues is too small to qualify her for the "Barack Defense" so this little fish is being tossed back into the pond. I hope for the sake of consistency, "Big Brother" Barry can find find someone with larger tax troubles to fill this new, ahem... position.
From FOXNews.com:
"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.
When her selection was announced by Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help.
The article even addresses the obvious question or concern that any thinking person would have.
Killefer oversees McKinsey's management consulting for government clients. During 1997-2000 in the Clinton administration, Killefer was assistant Treasury secretary for management. As such she was the chief financial officer and chief operating officer for the Treasury and its 160,000 employees and led a modernization of its largest component, the Internal Revenue Service.
But for nearly a month, the administration had refused to answer how its choice to make government workers more efficient and more responsive had bungled her household payroll taxes.
Now lets pretend for a moment that it is reasonable for Obama to create all of these Czar positions (Bill Ayers is on deck to be the Terrorist Advocacy Czar) and look at common thread that seems to bind many of this ethical, open, and honest administrations appointments. The common thread has many strands such as a severe lack of integrity, an aversion to paying taxes (but certainly pushing for more taxes paid by others), and atrocious judgment. Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, and the idiot nominated for HHS Sec. (or Medical Care Withholding Czar) Tom Daschle all should have never been nominated for their respective positions and they all got the "Stand By Your Man" treatment from Obama. Of course I am including Hillary Clinton as a "man", wouldn't you?
This all makes one wonder if Bill Richardson didn't know the rules or if his "situation" has some really serious component that has yet to surface. He should have stuck around, because even if there is a criminal component that would have resulted in a conviction, the new AG knows his way around the pardon game.
Why is the Performance Czar different? Perhaps the amount of taxes she failed to pay is too small to enable her to relate and work well with the bigger boys in the administration. Perhaps the "transparent" Obama Administration is choosing this little fish to make a dishonest statement about the integrity of the administration. Basically this is a throw away position so "Big Brother" Barry can "accept her withdrawal" and look like he is attentive to the character issues of his nominees... at least in the eyes of his drooling fan club. What a crusader against corruption this disciple of Alinsky is!
Update: Immediately after posting this I saw a headline which held the good news of Daschle's withdrawal. Things are looking up! I wonder if there will be more articles celebrating Obama's flawless transition.
