Obama’s Treasury Secretary Forgot to Pay Taxes

Here we go again, another Obama cabinet nominee wrapped up in a controversy. I will go through the list one more time.

Hillary Clinton’s appointment to Secretary of State is unconstitutional. Rahm Emanuel had 21 conversations with Blagojevich about Obama’s senate seat that was up for sale. Bill Richardson resigned his cabinet nomination in disgrace becaus he is involved in his own pay to play scheme.

The list seems to grow every day and here is the latest controversy surrounding a Barack Obama cabinet nominee. President-elect Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, has not one, but two little problems. He forgot to pay taxes, and he hired an illegal immigrant. While I am sure Obama doesn’t have any problem with Geithner hiring an illegal alien, after all he is for amnesty for illegals, he surely must have a problem with Geithner not paying taxes. After all the one thing that we know about Obama is that he loves taxes.

In what has to be an embarrassing turn of events for the president-elect Timothy Geithner’s confirmation hearing was put on hold.

Timothy Geithner didn’t pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for several years while he worked for the International Monetary Fund, and he employed an immigrant housekeeper who briefly lacked proper work papers. Those issues, and a series of other tax matters, caused the postponement Tuesday of Mr. Geithner’s confirmation hearing as Treasury secretary.

One has to wonder between Bill Richardson and Timothy Geithner if Barack Obama is properly vetting his appointments. Is he even looking into these people that he entrusting the future of our country to or is cronyism the deciding factor in his appointments?

Barack Obama has shown a stunning lack of judgement in several of his cabinet appointments, including a man with no experience heading the CIA and also a television doctor as Surgeon General, and this is coming from a man who ran on his judgement.

This is just the beginning.