More tax headaches for Obama Administration

By Jennifer J. Foster

Published: March 31, 2009

OK, this is just getting to be ridiculous.

From FoxNews.com:

Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding “unintentional errors”—the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.

The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that was obtained by The Associated Press. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.

Sebelius joins President Obama’s first HHS nominee, Tom Daschle; Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner; Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and a handful of other West Wing picks to run into post-appointment tax trouble.

Seriously, did anyone read those gargantuan questionnaires required of potential appointees?

And seriously, I want to know who decided that the failure to pay taxes in a timely and accurate manner wasn’t a deal-breaker for working in the White House and running the country.

Apparently, that person, whomever he is, is in good company: Most of the United States Senate appears to agree with him.