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Title: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 09:55:21 AM: (http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/01/08/alg_nancy_killefer.jpg)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.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.

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.

Since then, administration officials refused to answer questions about the tax error, which she resolved five months after the lien was filed. Obama's first choice for commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, took his name out of consideration when his confirmation appeared headed toward complications because of a grand jury investigation over how state contracts were issued to political donors.

more (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9646DBG0&show_article=1)

for heaven's sake. do any democrats pay their taxes?
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: djones520 on February 03, 2009, 10:03:53 AM: Of course not WE. Thats our job.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Atomic Lib Smasher on February 03, 2009, 10:05:59 AM: has Biden called her unpatriotic yet?
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 03, 2009, 10:06:54 AM: TAXES?.....I thought you said taxi........and we don't do taxi's either.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 10:07:11 AM: Quote from: djones520 on February 03, 2009, 10:03:53 AM
Of course not WE. Thats our job.

well, this is presumably the best that the democrat party has to offer; they are the best, the brightest, and they are financially well off. and most of them are tax cheats.

they are just handing us a lethal freaking argument if they so much as mention increasing taxes. it remains to be seen if The Audacity of Dope is audacious enough to go there.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: BEG on February 03, 2009, 10:10:00 AM: This shit is getting obnoxious.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Carl on February 03, 2009, 10:13:30 AM: The sense of entitlement seems to extend all the way to the "elite" of the dem party,not just the grubs at the bottom.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Zeus on February 03, 2009, 10:18:31 AM: [youtube=425,350]uMPRXdRPNF4[/youtube]
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Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 10:21:24 AM: I would give anything to see how much fun the late lee atwater would be having with this one.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: USA4ME on February 03, 2009, 10:25:21 AM: Quote from: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 10:07:11 AM
and most of them are tax cheats.

DING DING DING DING DING!!!!

DA WINNAR!!!

Do any Dems pay taxes? Doesn't look that way.

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Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 10:35:08 AM: Geithner, Daschle, and Killefer are tax cheats. richardson is about to be indicted by a federal grand jury. the sec'y of state's husband is being paid off by every hostile foreign government on the planet. the atty gen was point man in pardoning terrorists for free, and tax cheats for money.

it's notworthy that the republicans that he has either nominated or retained from the bush administration are, as a group, the least controversial of his cabinet members.

this is definitely "change we are deceived in".
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Splashdown on February 03, 2009, 10:38:30 AM: Wish I could make "mistakes" like those people can.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Karin on February 03, 2009, 10:40:18 AM: This has classic makings for a PR nightmare for the entire party, especially the tax part. I think the Dems are banking on the Obamamania to pull them through this. That's relying on a lot of hooey, it's unsustainable.

What's a chief performance officer? Sounds vaguely sexual.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 10:42:45 AM: Quote from: Splashdown on February 03, 2009, 10:38:30 AM
Wish I could make "mistakes" like those people can.

their mistakes are "innocent oversights". our mistakes are the reason that children are homeless, old people are starving, and no one has even seen a doctor as long as they have been alive.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 10:44:39 AM: Quote from: Karin on February 03, 2009, 10:40:18 AM
This has classic makings for a PR nightmare for the entire party, especially the tax part. I think the Dems are banking on the Obamamania to pull them through this. That's relying on a lot of hooey, it's unsustainable.

What's a chief performance officer? Sounds vaguely sexual.

it's another one of those odd "czar" posts that The BarackStar! is creating by the dozen. they seems as though they are his spies within the various federal bureaucracies that are there to keep an eye on his cabinet secretaries.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on February 03, 2009, 11:03:58 AM: Quote from: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 10:44:39 AM
it's another one of those odd "czar" posts that The BarackStar! is creating by the dozen. they seems as though they are his spies within the various federal bureaucracies that are there to keep an eye on his cabinet secretaries.

Another Hitler trick, drawing off the energies of possible future rivals with appointments that overlap another potential future rival's domain so that their energies are absorbed with internecine strife and the Boss does not become dependent on the actions or responsibilities of any one single subordinate. So far it's looking a lot more like the Reichsministerium than "Team of Rivals."

As far as being performance czar goes, I guess it is easier to perform better financially if you don't actually pay taxes.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Splashdown on February 03, 2009, 11:05:56 AM: No WONDER they want to repeal the tax cuts. None of those guys ever pay taxes anyway!
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Flame on February 03, 2009, 11:45:42 AM: Quote from: USA4ME on February 03, 2009, 10:25:21 AM
DING DING DING DING DING!!!!

DA WINNAR!!!

Do any Dems pay taxes? Doesn't look that way.

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of course they don't pay...that's why they don't mind jacking up the percentages the rest pay...it doesn't affect them!
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 11:50:51 AM: okay, I have changed my mind. it's OK with me if obama/reid/pelosi raise my taxes as long as there is there is a mandatory prison sentence for tax cheats. hell, they will all be in jail the time that the next election rolls around, and republicans will win the white house and congress by default. :-) we can fix the tax code after that. :uhsure:
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Miss Mia on February 03, 2009, 12:31:24 PM: Quote from: BEG on February 03, 2009, 10:10:00 AM
This shit is getting obnoxious.

I agree.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 03, 2009, 02:57:32 PM: You know, the Obama vetting crew should hire the dude that found the Titanic..... maybe he can find a democrat that paid taxes.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Duke Nukum on February 03, 2009, 07:09:01 PM: Taxes are for the "little people" and the IRS is nothing but a enforcers for the thugeaucracy.

Still I have asked my Rep for the same deal as Gietner. No paying of taxes until the Big L'oef appoints me to high office. I haven't heard back yet.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Zeus on February 03, 2009, 07:10:53 PM: Quote from: Splashdown on February 03, 2009, 11:05:56 AM
No WONDER they want to repeal the tax cuts. None of those guys ever pay taxes anyway!

(http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/sst020209dBP20090203041453.jpg)
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: debk on February 03, 2009, 07:14:45 PM: Has anyone heard any of the late night talk shows mention any of this?

I haven't, but really haven't heard any mention of it either.....

if it had been a Republican ....the jokes, etc...would go on for months if not years....
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 03, 2009, 08:11:21 PM: Quote from: debk on February 03, 2009, 07:14:45 PM
Has anyone heard any of the late night talk shows mention any of this?

I haven't, but really haven't heard any mention of it either.....

if it had been a Republican ....the jokes, etc...would go on for months if not years....

I don't watch late night talk shows. it gets in the way of 7:00 starts on the west coast. :-)
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Redstatecka on February 03, 2009, 08:58:22 PM: Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 03, 2009, 02:57:32 PM
You know, the Obama vetting crew should hire the dude that found the Titanic..... maybe he can find a democrat that paid taxes.

H5.
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: Chris on February 03, 2009, 08:59:40 PM: :rofl:
Title: Re: Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Tax problems, AGAIN)
Post by: rich_t on February 03, 2009, 09:06:36 PM: Quote from: Zeus on February 03, 2009, 07:10:53 PM
(http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/sst020209dBP20090203041453.jpg)

OMG. I just noticed your sig line.

Priceless and H5.