A tax cheat is now head of the IRS.

Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in as secretary of the Treasury on Monday evening, confirmed by a Senate majority that concluded that his experience in government and finance outweighed concerns about recent disclosures of some $34,000 in past tax delinquencies.

Don’t allow this to lead you to believe that you would be treated the same if you committed the same “crime”.* Do as we say, not as we do.

This reminds me of Obama’s admitted past drug use. He admits to smoking weed and snorting coke in his younger days. Presumably he doesn’t think that it would have led to a better outcome for him to have been incarcerated for that behavior, but he’s totally fine with jailing anyone who gets caught doing the exact thing he admits to doing.

Hypocrisy, thy middle name is Hussein.

* Personally, I believe that tax evasion is akin to telling a mugger you only have $20 while hiding the rest of your money in your shoe. It’s a lie, but you’re lying to a thief. Legally it may be a crime, but morally it clearly isn’t.