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Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy (Yes, you guessed it — TAX PROBLEM)
breitbart.com ^ | 02-03-09 | MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN and LIZ SIDOTI

Posted on 02/03/2009 7:38:40 AM PST by GOP_Lady

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday. Killefer was the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after President Barack Obama announced their selection.

The White House said Obama had accepted Killefer's decision and that the 55-year-old executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co., would explain her reasons for pulling out later Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; tax
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To: ScottinVA

I take an even greater joy in his failures, I laugh at every stumble he makes, ridicule his errors, and applaud his mistakes.


21 posted on 02/03/2009 8:07:19 AM PST by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: GOP_Lady

Not everyone has a tax problem. But the high percentage of people Obama has nominated for cabinet-level positions who have tax problems might explain why Democrats tend to think that all businessmen and businesswomen are crooks. I would posit that belief might have formed because all DEMOCRAT businessmen and businesswomen (or at least an exceedingly high percentage) ARE CROOKS. That might be because most of the so-called leadership in the DEMOCRAT PARTY ARE CROOKS!


22 posted on 02/03/2009 8:07:24 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: DuncanWaring
"Does 0bama have anyone working for him who’s not a “Czar”?"

And what exactly is a 'performance czar' anyway?? Good grief, so many new things to learn about...like 'the office of the President-elect' and its logo and that ugly gold curtain 0bama stands in front of that makes him look sickly.

23 posted on 02/03/2009 8:09:17 AM PST by sweet_diane (embracing Him)
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To: GOP_Lady

It’s all part of Obama’s econmic plan to get money for the government one nominee at a time. :)


24 posted on 02/03/2009 8:11:34 AM PST by Nemes1s
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To: GOP_Lady

A tax cheat a day
drives Barry all the way

Change, as in ka-ching, what we’ll have left
Hope, as in hope nobody’s paying attention.

0bambi - America’s Dope
See, I told you drugs were no good for you.


25 posted on 02/03/2009 8:14:34 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
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To: GOP_Lady

Here’s an idea. Try hiring on people to your cabinet who wash their own clothes and dishes, cook their own meals, buy their own groceries and raise their own kids.


26 posted on 02/03/2009 8:17:03 AM PST by RonF
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To: GOP_Lady

Now we know why Dems are not opposed to higher taxes: they just don’t pay them.


27 posted on 02/03/2009 8:19:02 AM PST by pierrem15 (Charles Martel: past and future of France)
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To: GOP_Lady

There won’t be anyone left in the Democratic party pretty soon that he can appoint. He’ll have to start appointing Republicans.


28 posted on 02/03/2009 8:21:11 AM PST by RC2
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To: McGruff
Where is Speaker Pelosi shouting “Culture of Corruption, Culture of Corruption”?

She's probably too busy hiding her own tax returns.

29 posted on 02/03/2009 8:24:27 AM PST by kevkrom ("The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.")
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To: RC2

What is the limit you can pay casual part time household help before you must pay taxes?


30 posted on 02/03/2009 8:25:08 AM PST by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: Oldexpat

It would seem that you could make them contract labor, do a 1099 and have them responsible for their own taxes?????


31 posted on 02/03/2009 8:28:06 AM PST by RC2
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To: GOP_Lady; Peanut Gallery

What the heck is a performance czar”?


32 posted on 02/03/2009 8:28:29 AM PST by Professional Engineer (You don't know the power of the Dork Side. | Can he lead a normal life? No, he'll be an engineer.)
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To: RexBeach
I further wonder, how many people now regret that they voted for Mr. Obama?

I wonder how many DU and Kos types will wake up and realize that their party is openly showing how much contempt they have for the little people, nominating wealthy tax crook after wealthy tax crook while expecting them to pay their "fair share".

33 posted on 02/03/2009 8:37:30 AM PST by FlyVet
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To: Professional Engineer

I think it’s based on 0-60 time and 1/4 mile time.


34 posted on 02/03/2009 8:44:34 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I like your tag line.


35 posted on 02/03/2009 9:20:52 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: GOP_Lady

One wonders whether P.J. O’Rourke will write a sequel to his “Parliament of Whores”, and call it “Cabinet of Cheats” . . . .


36 posted on 02/03/2009 9:24:15 AM PST by surely_you_jest
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To: WOBBLY BOB
I think it’s based on 0-60 time and 1/4 mile time.

ROFLMAO

37 posted on 02/03/2009 4:28:43 PM PST by Professional Engineer (You don't know the power of the Dork Side. | Can he lead a normal life? No, he'll be an engineer.)
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