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The Nanny-Tax Follies Know No Gender

Emily, sorry, but I gotta say that the idea that a sex-based double-standard constitutes a theme of the endlessly entertaining Obama Administration Tax Follies is ridiculous. This was all timing, timing, timing. Three officially makes a trend, and Nancy Killefer had the misfortune of being the third Obama-ite to turn up with an outstanding bill to the IRS. (And Killefer did doom Tom Daschle—not, I assume, in order to make the punishment evenly distributed by sex, but because her prompt withdrawal made it OK to contend that no, not everybody has tax problems, and yes, they can be considered a disqualifier for Cabinet service in the new Obama era.)