Memo to aspiring Obama-ites: Pay your dang taxes!

First Tim Geithner; now Tom Daschle – two men called to service in Barack Obama’s Best-and-Brightest administration who had to do some serious last minute tax tweaking.

So here’s my advice to all of you up-and-coming apparatchiks: Tell your tax-preparers to color inside the lines. No fuzzy math, no questionable deductions.

One more observation.

With this percentage of tax-fudgers in Obama’s cabinet, I wonder how many of the nation’s elite are shirking their legal share of the tax burden?

Maybe the IRS needs a new enforcement wing devoted exclusively to the rich. Call it the Future Office-holders Vetting Division.

Maybe we don’t really have a budget deficit at all? Just a lot of uber-rich folks who need to “adjust” their returns for the last decade…