I love it when politicians insert foot into mouth...:"I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
That probably will go down in history as one of the biggest "bite you in the arse" events of modern history, but only three weeks into the Obama administration, I do have to say we're getting a couple of good runners up:
"Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter" -- Tom Daschle, Congressional Register, 1998
That would be the same Daschle who "forgot" or "overlooked" certain taxable benefits in his million dollar lobbyist position.
Which brings me to the next contender:
"When I am president, they [lobbyists] won't find a job in my White House."
Ah, yeah. I think that's in the list of campaign promises I need to review once in a while (I don't have all 40 of them memorized yet...)
For a party who made so much fun of the non-vetting of Sarah Palin, I find it awfully ironic that Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, Tim Geithner, and Nancy Killefer all made it thru the vetting process, only to be publicly humiliated within days of their nominations being made public. And those are the ones we know about...
I'm still shocked that Geithner got the job, actually. Isn't Treasury in charge of the IRS? Letting a tax cheat be in charge of the agency he defrauded seems a little strange, even for Washington.
No insult intended to their business acumen, but it's almost as hypocritical as letting Frank Lorenzo or Carl Icahn serve as Secretary of Labor.
