The Ghost of Campaign Ads Past

Does that sting?

Damn you Daschle. George Packer at The New Yorker doesn't think Obama can afford hypocrisy. The NYT agrees. This is not the kind of attention he needs right now. This is two tax evading politicians too many.

UPDATE - A reader over at 'The Daily Dish' points out:

"Someone should make the point that the theory on which Daschle did not pay taxes on an extraordinary non-salary benefit provided by his employer (car and driver) is exactly the theory on which Palin did not pay taxes on an extraordinary benefit (free air travel for her children, and 60 dollar per day per diem payments for use of her own house).

Palin never paid back taxes but simply produced a squirrelly letter from her lawyers saying that someone could believe in good faith that taxes were not owed on the travel or per diems she received, so her failure to report those items as income was excusable."