New York Times Calls For Daschle To Withdraw
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] From the paper's new editorial : When President Obama nominated former Senator Tom Daschle to be his secretary of health and human services, it seemed to be a good choice. Mr. Daschle, as the co-author of a book on health care reform, knew a lot about one of the president s signature issues. As a former Senate majority leader, he also knew a lot about guiding controversial bills through Congress, where he remains liked and respected by former colleagues. Unfortunately, new facts have come to light involving his failure to pay substantial taxes that were owed and his ...

New York Times Calls for Daschle to Step Aside
Say Anything — When you’re a liberal and the NYT throws you under the bus…you know it’s time to go! When President Obama nominated former Senator Tom Daschle to be his secretary of health and human services, it seemed to be a good choice. Mr. Daschle, as the co-author of a book on health care reform, knew a lot about one of the president’s signature issues. As a former Senate majority leader, he also knew a lot about guiding controversial bills through Congress, where he remains liked and respected by former colleagues. ...

Opposoing Daschle Should be No Brainer for GOP
GayPatriot — Now that even the New York Times has called for Tom Daschle “to step aside” (via the Corner), it should be a no-brainer for Senate Republicans to oppose the former Senator’s confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services. It’s not just his tax problems, it’s that he embodies everything Republicans are supposed to oppose. He is, as John Hinderaker puts it, a symbol of all that’s wrong in D.C. After John Thune ousted Daschle from the Senate in 2004, the Democrat didn’t return to his home state, but stayed ...

And that person's name should be Howard Dean
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... be HHS Secretary, I was less than thrilled. But this business with his taxes isn't about him being a wuss, it's about him being just as corrupt and greedy as the Republicans we're trying to replace. And the bottom line is that at least in the media, the IOKIYAR Rule is alive and well. But even without the media, aren't we supposed to be better than that? Especially when there is a perfectly fine candidate out there for the job who has probably paid his taxes every year? So I'm with the Gray Lady on this one: Mr. Daschle’s tax shortfall is ...

When You Lose The NY Times, Obama ...
Riehl World View — Update: Sadly it needs to be pointed out that we are reading this in the New York Times before hearing it from any elected Republicans. Keep that in mind as you strain to find a reason to vote for one of them next time around. As a liberal Democrat, you've lost the war. Unfortunately, new facts have come to light — involving his failure to pay substantial taxes that were owed and his sizable income from health-related companies while he worked in the private sector — that call into question his suitability for the job. We believe that Mr. Daschle ought to step aside and let the president choose a less-blemished ...

NYT calls for Daschile to withdraw
Hyscience — When Obama looses the NYT's rubber stamp of everything leftist, perhaps it's a sign he ought to be giving second thoughts to Daschile's nomination as secretary of health and human services - The Travails of Tom Daschle: ...

Daschle in the Balance
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... NY Times and The Nation both say the HHS Secretary-designate should get the boot. And/But: WashPost says if Obama still wants Daschle, he should be allowed to have him.       ...

Another Problem for Tom Daschle
Swampland — On a morning when the New York Times is editorializing that Tom Daschle should step aside, Politico's Ben Smith and Eamon Javers are reporting yet another potential problem for the HHS nominee: Tom Daschle backed the patron who paid him a million-dollar salary and supplied him with a free car and driver for a job inside the ...

Daschle's Out
Politics Daily — Filed under: Scandal, Obama AdministrationI guess the New York Times editorial page does still have some sway.... The AP is reporting that Tom Daschle, former Senate leader and Obama's choice to head Health and Human Services, has withdrawn himself from consideration. This follows the revelation the Daschle owed $120,000 in back taxes.   Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Fewer tax cuts, more of this, please. I guess serving as Lt. Governor = being on welfare. 75-21. Why is Gregg going to Commerce? More Daschle problems? NYT: he should withdraw. "The ...

NY Times calls for Daschle’s withdrawal
Hot Air » Top Picks — NY Times calls for Daschle’s withdrawal posted at 8:35 am on February 3, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly What happens when your own cheerleading team starts booing one of your players?  Barack Obama just found out.  The New York Times has called for Tom Daschle to withdraw, and for Obama to find another, “less-blemished” Secretary of HHS, and not just regarding taxes (via The Corner ): When President Obama nominated former Senator Tom Daschle to be his secretary of health and human services, it seemed to be a good choice. Mr. Daschle, as the co-author of a book on health care reform, ...

NYT: Daschle should withdraw
Ace of Spades HQ — NYT: Daschle should withdraw Its over Tom, you just lost the faith of the Praetorian guard . Quit now before you wake up with a bunch of daggers in your chest. Posted by: Purple Avenger at ...

NYT: Daschle Should ‘Step Aside’
News — ... The New York Times editorial board called for Tom Daschle to remove himself from consideration to become President Barack Obama’s secretary of health and human services on Tuesday because of his failure to pay over $100,000 in taxes. “[N]ew facts have come to light — involving his failure to pay substantial taxes that were owed and his sizable income from health-related companies while he worked in the private sector,” the Times editorial board wrote, “that call into question his suitability for the job. We believe that Mr. Daschle ought to step aside and ...

Even the NY Times Says Daschle Should Withdraw his Nomination
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — Even the NY Times Says Daschle Should Withdraw his Nomination Daschle_apologizes_for_income_tax_flubs.jpg You know things are really going bad for the left and for El Presidente when the NY Times comes out and says that his pick for HHS has got to go. I got to give them credit here, in contrast to the wankers out there such as Kos, Mr. Limpett, Gene Robinson, Pitts, and their lefty cult, whose silence has been deafening on this issue, the NY Times has got it right here. An apology is not going to cut it. If I rob your store at gunpoint, and then before I'm about ...

'This Is a Big Problem for Obama, Especially Because It Was Such a Major, Major Promise'
JammieWearingFool — ... change we can believe in is not the same thing as business as usual .” And so in these opening days of the administration, the Obama team finds itself being criticized by bloggers on the left and the right, mocked by television comics and questioned by reporters about whether Mr. Obama is really changing the way Washington works or just changing which political party works it. H/T: Dan. In an even more remarkable turn of events, the Times today calls for Daschle's nomination to be withdrawn . Mr. Daschle is another in a long line of politicians who move cozily between ...

Can Daschle?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... withdraw from consideration as Health and Human Services Secretary....For Obama, it’s especially important not to have a double standard. A lot of his influence in cleaning up the corruptions of the private sector will be rhetorical. To do what needs to be done with Wall Street, he’ll need all the moral authority he can muster. If he allows two tax cheats into his cabinet, he’s going to lose a portion of it before his Presidency is one month old. The New York Times concurs. Oddly, I think Geithner's sins are greater than ...

Health Care Tuesday
Daily Kos — NY Times Editorial: Daschle should withdraw. Mr. Daschle’s financial ties to major players in the health care industry may prove to be even more troublesome as health reform efforts proceed. No sign that he will. Here's what's keeping him afloat. But that doesn't mean there's no damage. On chances for health reform: Representative Henry Waxman, whose Energy and Commerce Committee has primary jurisdiction over healthcare in the House, today underlined his commitment to passage this ...

Plenty of room in health care battle for Tom Daschle and Howard Dean
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... to be a bit of that going around lately. Tim Geithner had his problems, but did get confirmed. Now Tom Daschle is running into his own problems. To be fair to Daschle, he has paid the taxes back with penalty. In fact, he may have overpaid this time around. But there is still this anger against Cabinet nominees over not properly paying taxes. (Why people are angrier at Daschle than Bernie Madoff or some overpaid Wall Street guy is a topic for another essay.) But when The New York Times and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" are both angry about ...

Daschle
Shakesville — I know I should write a big post about Tom Daschle and his tax problem, but I'm honestly too wevved by it all to be able to muster the energy. ...

Obama's 'Chief Performance Officer' Didn't Perform Well on Taxes, Withdraws Nomination
Weekly Standard Blog — ... I doubt Killefer will be the last one to pay for her tax sins. Even the NYT is not defending Tom Daschle: ...

Over/under on Daschle withdrawing?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — He’s got the New York Times calling for his removal (check out Hot Air for appropriate scorn at the way that the Grey Lady is weaseling on this one), there was a quid pro quo between Daschle and the guy who gave him the car and chauffeur, and the best defense that Obama’s press sacrificial victim secretary could come up with? “Nobody’s perfect.” Well that, and that the President “absolutely” ...

Daschle Down But Hardly Out
JustOneMinute — The NY Times editors call on Tax Chiseler Tom Daschle to step aside as nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Sacrifice Services.  But left unmentioned in their editorial is any nod to the fact that Obama has already announced that, in addition to heading HHS, Daschle will have an office in the West Wing and will be ...

Daschle's Out
Eschaton — Rather unexpected. ...MSNBC says this pushed him over the edge.

Dwayne Horner: Daschle Withdraws
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... (even though they cannot seem to pay their taxes) and their editorial asking Daschle to step aside , there is yet another sign that the honeymoon is over for the new President. "When President Obama nominated former Senator Tom Daschle to be his secretary of health and human services, it seemed to be a good choice...unfortunately, new facts have come to light — involving his failure to pay substantial taxes that were owed and his sizable income from health-related companies while he worked in the private sector — that call into question his suitability ...

The NY Times Suggests Daschle Should Step Down
Crooks and Liars — ... The Times thinks Tom Daschle should step down, and I have to say, for these reasons and others, it wouldn't break my heart. (Although I also have to note, the Times only seems to get quite this picky about Democrats): ...

So... what to do about Tom Daschle?
The Reaction — ... Michael J.W. Stickings BREAKING NEWS: As I was writing this post, this came along the wire: "Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination to be Health and Human Services secretary." Two questions: First, what's up with Obama nominees and tax problems? First it was Geithner (confirmed), then it was Daschle (still in progress), and now it's Nancy Killefer, Obama's ...

Mitchell: NYT impacted Daschle decision
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... by Peter Baker on "Obama's promise of ethics reform," and A1 photo of a somber Daschle below the fold, the editorial board strongly advised Daschle to "step aside and let the president choose a less-blemished successor." ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... you're wrong about that, and hey, you're the people whose editorial demanding his resignation probably caused this to happen today. But it was going to happen in any case -- this story really had legs, more than a lot of us thought it would. It's not like the Geithner story -- Daschle's non-payment of taxes was for a cushy perk, a luxury, and while his limo wasn't a corporate jet, this is a really bad time to expect forgiveness for living what appears to be the high life without paying what you owe. ...

O: The irony
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — Barack Obama has a rash of rich, white, tax-evading people trying to work for a black man. Timothy Geithner, may had gotten away with an "I'm sorry" but not Tom Daschle : His withdrawal came just a few hours after another Obama nominee, Nancy Killefer, said she was withdrawing her nomination. Both had controversies with taxes and cited distractions over that as reasons for withdrawing. [...] "I read the New York Times," Daschle told Mitchell, adding: "I can't pass health care if it's too much of a distraction ... so I called the president this morning." Dude paid over $130k in back taxes and ...

Kerry On Daschle’s Withdrawal
The Democratic Daily — As Stuart has noted in the post below, Tom Daschle has withdrawn from consideration as the nominee for  for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle’s full statement on his withdrawal is here. I’m a little torn about all of this, it seems we’re having a spell of nominations with issues, to say the least. I think Daschle would have been great for this post however and I agree with Senator Kerry’s assessment: “I wish Tom Daschle had not decided to withdraw his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services.  While Tom’s decision is a reminder of his loyalty to President Obama and ...

Daschle Drops Out
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... Obama had tapped Daschle to lead the charge on health care reform. The former majority leader said that effort would require a leader “without distraction.” It might also require a leader who didn’t make millions advising (read: lobbying for) the health industry. ...

The Difference Between Republicans & Democrats
Sound Politics — The Difference Between Republicans & Democrats A Democrat reads a tough editorial against him in the New York Times and ...

Are We Doing the Bidding of Conservatives?
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... Did we consider it more important to save the nomination of Tom Daschle, who was picked specifically so he could navigate universal health care through his former Senate home? Or did we go holier-than-thou over relatively minor matters, doing the conservatives' job for them? ...

Bill Scher: Are We Doing the Bidding of Conservatives?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Did we consider it more important to save the nomination of Tom Daschle, who was picked specifically so he could navigate universal health care through his former Senate home? Or did we go holier-than-thou over relatively minor matters, doing the conservatives' job for them? ...

Test Post
JustOneMinute — ... to two New York Times articles. One was an editorial that concluded, "Mr. Daschle is another in a long line of politicians who move cozily between government and industry...[and] could potentially throw a cloud over health care reform." The other was a ...

Chicago Tribune, Washington Post Call on Roland Burris to Resign
Politics Daily — ... Two weeks ago, the New York Times had their way with Tom Daschle, convincing him to withdraw his HHS nomination within hours of a reproachful editorial. ...