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...implication of a third high-level White House appointee in income tax arrears, the president isn’t the only one who should be issuing mea culpas. Earlier this week, heath and human services secretary pick Tom Daschle became the second of Obama’s nominees to withdraw his name from consideration because of tax problems. This happened only a few hours after prospective chief performance officer Nancy Killefer did the same. Daschle explained that he withdrew so that his mistake would not “be a distraction” from Obama’s health-care...
...Gregg's wife, Kathleen, was abducted from the couple's suburban Washington, D.C. home at knife-point, driven to a local bank and forced to withdraw money. She was unharmed in the incident...
...Tuesday morning, it became apparent that the storm was only intensifying, and Daschle, recognizing the change in the political winds, withdrew his name from consideration for the Cabinet post. Several editorial pages - including the New York Times's - had called on him to withdraw. And there was a new allegation, reported by Politico, that Daschle had recommended the very businessman who had supplied him with the car service for two Cabinet posts in the Obama Administration. As one close adviser put it, the case for Daschle had "appreciably deteriorated from 24 hours ago." (See who's who in Obama...
...decision to withdraw his name was Daschle's alone, the adviser said, adding, "The President was fine, was more than ready to hang tough on this." But Daschle had begun to realize that even though he probably would prevail in the end and win Senate confirmation, it would come at great cost to the Obama Administration...
...spread that he had distributed a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" a few weeks after Obama's victory. The incumbent, Mike Duncan, was forced to admit during a campaign debate that he didn't use Twitter (gasp!), and Katon Dawson, the South Carolina Republican chairman, tried (unsuccessfully) to withdraw his membership from a white-only country club before the contest. Still, Steele maintained that race did not play a role in his victory, saying, "I am a Republican who happens to be African-American...