The tax hits keep on comin'

Everyone has probably heard the latest news by now, but I'll mention it here for completeness purposes, since we're keeping track of such issues these days.

The Messiah's choice for Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, has been put on hold for a number of reasons, chief among them the fact that she served as board treasurer for a pro-labor organization while simultaneously introducing pro-union bills the group favored while she was in the House, all without recusing herself or even disclosing her blatant conflict of interest, which is what ethical legislators do. Basically, she was lobbying herself:

"Not only was she involved with a private organization that was lobbying her fellow legislators on a bill that she has cosponsored, but she apparently kept her involvement secret and failed to reveal a clear conflict of interest." (All emphases mine)

Another clear example of Obama bringing in a "new era" of accountable government.

The bill in question is the odious "Employee Free Choice Act", which would do nothing of the sort. What it would do is eliminate the secret ballot for workers wishing to unionize a business, allowing everyone on the job to see just who the coworkers are that are holding out and preventing a majority vote, and providing an easy way for thuggish union goons to identify and intimidate those who don't wish to sign union check cards.

"Now [Obama] has a nominee for Labor Secretary who apparently broke House ethics rules by lobbying for legislation that she sponsored, but who did not admit that she failed to reveal
that fact on her financial disclosure forms until after her nomination became an issue"

Just another oversight, I'm sure.

As if that weren't enough, also holding up Solis's nomination is the fact that her husband has had to hastily clear up some...you guessed it...unpaid taxes:

"A Senate committee today abruptly canceled a session to consider President Obama's nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be labor secretary in the wake of a report saying that her husband yesterday paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business -- including liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years."

If Obama's nominees keep getting forced to pay their long-overdue taxes before being shamed into withdrawing from consideration, we're going to have this deficit knocked out in no time.