I am watching Hardball and the question is being asked whether or not Obama's standards are too high, and that's why he is having problems getting his people through the confirmation process...

Are you kidding me????

His standards are not too high, the American people's standards are too low! Apparently we have elected a bunch of people to represent us that think the tax laws (that they wrote?) were not meant for them...just us peons.

If nothing else, this confirmation process should have us asking a whole bunch more questions of the people who are running for office.

But what to do now? First, the IRS should audit every member of Congress. The people who write and approve the tax laws, above all others, should be living by them. And second, every person who is looking to go into a high - mid level position in the Obama Administration should be backing out now if their tax situation is not in order...This is an embarrassment to our President and it needs to stop.  And third, ANYONE who is in an elected office, from City Councilman to Senator, across the country, should make sure they have paid all the taxes they owe...They have been placed in positions of trust, and if we can't trust them to have paid their fair share of taxes, how can we trust them, period?

I'm sick of politics being such a dirty business. It's almost like we expect it, so we tolerate it. I don't believe it has to be that way, but it will continue, as long as we allow it to.