Timothy Geithner, Obama’s pick to head the exact same agency that is responsible for overseeing the IRS, is caught having… not paid back taxes for a nanny he employed

“…employed a housekeeper whose employment authorization document expired about three months before she stopped working for them in October 2005, according to a written statement from the Senate Finance Committee.

Later, the housekeeper, who is married to a U.S. citizen, was granted a green card, transition officials said.

The second concern involves Geithner’s taxes while he worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to a statement released by the committee, Geithner failed to pay self-employment taxes while the IMF paid him from 2001 to 2004.

In 2006, the Internal Revenue Service audited Geithner for tax years 2003 and 2004, and he paid $16,732 for the taxes and interest for those years, the statement said. After Obama nominated him for treasury secretary, Geithner voluntarily amended his taxes for 2001 and 2002, paying $25,970 for those taxes and interest, the committee said.”

The press and Obama team response? It was an “honest mistake.” That’s it… just an “honest mistake.” Nothing to see here, move along. Yes, we know it’s a powerful position to hold, but these financial times REQUIRE someone be seated quickly, so just pay no mind to this “honest mistake.” Again, never you mind that he “employed a housekeeper who became an illegal immigrant while working for him. And Geithner did not pay self-employment taxes for several years until the IRS audited him.” …and to the tune of around $30,000 no less.

Where was this same forgiving mindset when it came to illegally investigating an unassuming citizen, whose only crime was to ask Obama a question about redistribution of wealth? You see, this citizen, Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. “Joe the Plumber,” was found to have owed back taxes in the grand total of about $1,200. It was reported by ABC, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, the New York Times, and every other outlet you could find, and there was nobody cutting him any slack. In fact, if you Google “Joe Plumber Owes Back Taxes,” you get 31,000 results. The self-righteous indignation on MSNBC alone was galling.

And just what grand political appointment was Joe Wurzelbacher about to take? Not a damn one. Yet when Obama’s appointment Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary is found to have owed more than $30,000 in back taxes, I find only a little more than 8,000 Google hits on that one. You mean to tell me that the man who is positioned to take the helm of one of THE most powerful agencies cannot even comply with that agency’s measures, and it’s only an “honest mistake?” Yet a single citizen who is being appointed to nothing, who owes back taxes, and suddenly it is worthy of denigration by the entire Democrat political machine (which includes the MSM)?

Folks, this is why Obama will get what he wants, as will the Democrats in Congress. That is, unless, the GOP gets off their collective asses and makes themselves heard. But I’m not counting on it. They have recently shown a level of emasculation like I’ve never seen. The whole lot of them appear to be ball-less, and I’m ashamed of them. Conservatives will continue to mobilize in exile, and the GOP better pray that we don’t leave them.