Dishonest Senator Daschle

The Democrats support of Senator Daschle for Secretary of Health and Human Services is really sad. Everyone knows he was being dishonest. You can’t argue that it was a simple mistake.

Let me ask a question. If you discovered that you owed $134,000 in unpaid taxes, wouldn’t you be nervous that the IRS would discover it before you got it paid? I sure would be. That’s not a small sum of money. I would be extremely anxious to get it paid. Mr. Daschle on the other hand didn’t treat it with any sense of urgency. He told his accountant to investigate it in June 2008. The work should take maybe a week to accomplish but he didn’t pay until January 2, 2009. He didn’t pay it until he absolutely had to. If you take the evidence on hand, which comes straight from Senator Daschle, and determine that it was a mistake, you are either unbelievably gullible or so politically biased that you can’t be objective.

Another indicator of his extreme dishonesty is that this isn’t money needed to feed his children. Guys like Daschle who have so many years of experience in high levels of government will never struggle for income. That is evident from his huge windfall ($5M) since losing his Senate seat in 2004. Why was he so slow to pay? Because he’s a crook!

Finally today the pressure became so great that the President needed to withdraw his nomination. Of course they don’t actually withdraw his name. In order to not disgrace the crook, they talk about how great and honorable he is and let him bow out himself.

Listen to these sickening quotes from his fellow Democratic Senators:

“It’s just the kind of class move you’d expect from a person like Tom Daschle.” Senator Dick Durbin

“Daschle’s own admission that he had failed to pay the taxes was reason enough to forgive his sin.” Senator Chuck Schumer 

“I’m too emotionally upset to answer.” Senator Tom Harkin

Now the “CROOK” gets to become the martyr.