Puff Daschle 'Deeply Embarrassed' For Being a Criminal

Poor little Puffy. He's really sorry for cheating on his taxes and now claims to be embarrassed.

OK, so if you're embarrassed, reject the cabinet nomination and go away. You and your fat-cat lobbyist wife don't have to worry about finances like the little people.

Thomas A. Daschle, picked by President Barack Obama to be Health and Human Services secretary, said he was “deeply embarrassed” about $128,000 in errors on his taxes, and promised in a letter to answer all questions about how it happened.

The letter was sent to the ranking members of the Senate Finance Committee prior to a meeting today between the panel and the former U.S. senator, according to a person who provided the correspondence to Bloomberg. Daschle amended his returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007, and paid $140,000 in taxes and interest.

Daschle’s nomination must be confirmed by the finance committee. Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona, a panel member, said on “Fox News Sunday” that it’s too early to tell whether the nomination is in trouble. Daschle refiled his returns Jan. 2 to add unreported consulting fees, unspecified charitable contributions and a car and driver provided by Leo Hindery Jr., a founder of the private-equity firm InterMedia Advisors, a committee draft report said.

Virtually any other American busted for avoiding taxes for three years would be facing jail time.

Why the double standard for these criminal Democrats?

Ten years ago The Puffster had this to say:

“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. ” Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507.

Now though, schmucks like John Kerry call it an innocent mistake.

Finance Committee member Senator John Kerry on the same program called the tax problem an “innocent mistake that doesn’t affect one iota his ability to do the job.”

No, deliberately avoiding taxes is a criminal offense, not an innocent mistake.