I'm just saying ... people, come on. The Dems are trying to position themselves as the party of competence and accountability. They are kind of shooting themselves in the foot with this stuff.
I think Daschle's a great nominee, I think Geithner was probably a good choice (who knows, these economic experts all seem to be wrong 70 percent of the time these days), and Killefer was actually probably a great choice to do something that a lot of politicians have talked about but few have delivered on: run the government like a business.
But you gotta cross your t's and dot your i's or you really don't look like you belong in a job like this one.
One could make the case that these problems point to an impossibly complicated tax system that even the best and the brightest can muck up, and it's true that it's happened to folks on both sides of the aisle, but the bottom line is, that's an excuse.
This stuff is politics as usual. We are expecting more from the Obama Administration.
(All of the above written by a fellow who's wife keeps the books.)
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