This morning’s Plain Dealer editorial page features a column by senior political reporter, Mark Naymik, titled, “Small tax issues still matter in a heated campaign, even among two Democrats.” (And hey, I read it in the printed version, not online first).
In it, Mark writes:
Taxes seem to matter to U.S. senators when people come before them seeking confirmation to administration positions. Senate candidates should be held to the same standard. This doesn’t rival a Nannygate or an extramarital affair, but small tax issues still matter in a heated campaign, even among two Democrats.
Okay, but…between U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senator from Nevada, John Ensign (R) and and South Carolina’s Governor Mark Sanford (R), not even Nannygate-sized tax problems or high tabloid-drama extramarital affairs seem to matter – Geithner got confirmed and Ensign and Sanford continue to serve in their elected positions.
Given that big tax issues didn’t matter for Geithner – the man overseeing our country’s treasury, and absolutely kookie circumstances of admitted infedility don’t matter for Ensign or Sanford, how is it that “…small tax issues still matter in a heated campaign, even among two Democrats”?
Do they? Should they? What?