The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Lien on Me
Yet another cabinet nominee has tax problems, Reuters reports:
A Senate panel delayed its vote on Labor Secretary-designate Hilda Solis after the newspaper USA Today reported that her husband paid about $6,400 on Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding against his business for as long as 16 years.
That’s Wednesday of [last] week–i.e., roughly 24 hours after the defenestration of Nancy Killefer and Tom Daschle. Possibly Solis will skate by on the theory that the Killefer Standard does not apply to spouses. If she does not, however, President Obama may want to take a closer look at the ethics of the husband of the secretary of state.
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