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blogs.abcnews.com - 1/30/2009

Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver

— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD, to be President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee. The controversy... (more) Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces ...

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blogs.abcnews.com - 1/31/2009

More Daschle Tax Issues

— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News has obtained the Senate Finance Committee Report on Tom Daschle's nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which indicates that Daschle's tax problems were even more substantial than earlier reported. The ... (more) More Daschle Tax Issues

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online.wsj.com - 1/31/2009

Daschle Paid Back Taxes After Vetting

— online.wsj.com — Getty Images Tom Daschle, right, flanked by his wife Linda Daschle, as he testifies during his Senate Confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Jan. 8. (more) Daschle Paid Back Taxes After Vetting

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Tom Daschle's tax fraud
TigerHawk — I'm blogging from the bar at the Lowe's Regency at 61st and Park, very much enjoying myself while waiting for the TH Daughter to emerge from a party up the street. All very slick, nearly as I can tell. The TH Daughter has figured out how to move in much tonier circles than I do. Anyway, Glenn Reynolds calls our attention to the tax deadbeat of the week, Tom Daschle. Daschle, we belatedly learn, ...

Senate Should Reject Daschle Nomination
GayPatriot — Here’s one reason. Obama’s appointment of the former Senate Democratic leader suggests that his pleas for postpartisanship were little more than a clever campaign slogan. Tom Daschle defined Democratic obstructionism during President Bush’s first term (as Eric Holder defined the Clinton Administration’s politicization of the Justice Department during the Arkansas Democrat’s White House tenure). The Senate should reject the Daschle nomination to help the president make good on the postpartisan pledge he made in his campaign.