Obama Administration Tax Dodgers: Is Solis Up to the Standard?

February 5, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

The husband of labor secretary-designate Hilda Solis recently had to pay $6,400 to settle tax liens. This raises a grave question in my mind about the Solis nomination: Only $6,400? I'm really not sure that meets the standard that Obama nominees like Timothy Geithner ($34,000) and Tom Daschle ($128,000) set. Sure, Nancy Killefer's tax lien was under $1,000, but she was a subcabinet nominee. I suppose, though, that working-class tax dodgers do deserve representation in the cabinet as well ...

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Sounds like one of those "todo por la raza..." folks who put race first over country and rule of law.

http://solis.house.gov/apps/list/speech/ca32_solis/wida6/fnuw56.shtml

...the Congresswoman is prepared to continue fighting for more opportunities for the nation’s 47 million Latinos.

“The 111th Congress will shepherd in with it a new Administration under President-elect Obama and provide new opportunities to advance the economic security, health care, and education of our Latino families. It will also bring with it new challenges in the fight for economic and social justice in the Latino community,” said Solis. “I am prepared to tackle these challenges directly. I am honored and thank my colleagues for their support and look forward to working with them as 2nd Vice Chair to improve the lives of Latino families.”

Replace Latino with white and you'd be ostracized by the mainstream media.

...David Duke is prepared to continue fighting for more opportunities for the nation’s 200 million Whites.

“The 111th Congress will shepherd in with it a new Administration under President-elect Obama and provide new opportunities to advance the economic security, health care, and education of our white families. It will also bring with it new challenges in the fight for economic and social justice in the white community,” said Duke. “I am prepared to tackle these challenges directly. I am honored and thank my colleagues for their support and look forward to working with them as 2nd Vice Chair to improve the lives of white families.”

Luther of IL 2:39PM February 06, 2009

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of

'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day

America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

-NORMAN THOMAS

I live in california, we have days where it is ILLEGAL to burn fires in our fireplace in the name of the environment. Has anyone seen the natural forrest fires on the news?

Are there limitations to government? What are they or where are they?

What will be our boston tea party?

DudeBra of CA 7:35PM February 05, 2009

Some change we have! Hussein cannot even find anybody with a clean record. Despite the vetting process.

Ivan of MD 4:02PM February 05, 2009

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.

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