Comical

Another day, another Obama Administration appointee forced to withdraw their nomination due to a tax issue.

This time, the wheel of shame stops on Nancy Killefer, who had a tax lien placed on her home by the D.C. city government for non-payment of payroll taxes. The placing of a lien is apparently "not a common practice", according to one official in the city's tax division.

"D.C. law authorizes such liens when an employer "neglects and refuses" to pay the levy that helps pay for unemployment benefits for those laid off or fired. [unemployment insurance tax division head Bobby] Tucker said his auditors have discretion to use tax liens based on "the number of attempts to collect contributions owed, whether or not the employer responds to written attempts, phone calls and-or in-person visits" to collect the tax."

Reading between the lines, this seems to mean that Tucker's office was forced to take the "last resort" step of placing the lien after Ms. Killefer blatantly avoided her fiscal responsibilities, up to and including ducking official notices from the taxman.

The amount in question? $946.69, chump change to high-powered McKinsey Consulting executives such as Killefer. One wonders why she let matters get to this point. Well, it's all a moot point now.

The irony of this situation is that she was going to be the "chief performance officer" for the White House, charged with making government run more efficiently. A poor pick for the position, it seems.

"During that period, Killefer and her husband, an economics professor, had two nannies to help care for their teenage son and daughter"

There goes the poor kids' school social lives.