So apparently Democrats are all in favor of taxes…

….except when they have to pay them. First we had Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s tax booboo, and now we have paragon of virtue Tom Daschle overlooking a small tax burden of just $120,000.

WASHINGTON – Tom Daschle apologized Monday to the Senate panel that will decide whether he becomes Health and Human Services secretary, saying he was "deeply embarrassed and disappointed" about his failure to pay more than $120,000 in taxes.

A $120,000 error? Oops! That seems a bit more than an oversight.

Tom, how are we supposed to pay for a massive and bloated new health care bureaucracy if people have “mistakes” like that on their taxes?

A financial disclosure form Daschle filed about a week ago shows that he made more than $200,000 in the past two years speaking to members of the health care industry that Obama wants him to reform.

The speaking fees were just a portion of the more than $5.2 million the former South Dakota senator earned over the past two years as he advised health insurers and hospitals and worked in other industries such as energy and telecommunications, according to a financial statement filed with the Office of Government Ethics.

Five million in speaking fees over the last two years. I am sure none of the groups who paid him exorbitant amounts to speak (and he is not much of an orator) will be looking for special access in return for their payments.

This is the Democrat party. Big spending rich liberals who can afford tax shelters while at the same time pontificating about people “paying their fair share” and passing growth crushing tax increases at every opportunity. Limousine liberals who fan the flames of populist rhetoric with great speeches that amount to “do as I say, not as I do”. Little wonder that liberals are so opposed to simplifying the tax code, because in doing so they lose control over people and the filthy rich among the liberal elites can’t hide their income anymore. I expect the Senate and the media to give Daschle a pass on this, just like they have everything else associated with Obama. Jeremiah Wright? Pass. William Ayers? Pass. The Clinton Foundation? Pass. Timothy Geithner? Pass. Tom Daschle? Pass. Media bias? What media bias?

Hope? Change? Politics as usual.