Camelot, Oh Camelot
The first Camelot never really existed of course. Neither did the second one. And the third is all over before it began. King Aurthur’s never-was and the myths of the Kennedy presidency aside, the third iteration – where Princess Caroline of Camelot Valley was supposed to glide effortlessly into the Senate appears to have hit the ugly reality of a housekeeper and the matter of non-payment of taxes for said employee.
What is it with rich liberals?
ALBANY — Problems involving taxes and a household employee surfaced during the vetting of Caroline Kennedy and derailed her candidacy for the Senate, a person close to Gov. David A. Paterson said on Thursday, in an account at odds with Ms. Kennedy’s own description of her reasons for withdrawing.
The account emerged 14 hours after Ms. Kennedy announced that she was taking her name out of contention for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and as Mr. Paterson, according to two well-placed Democrats told of his thinking, was leaning toward selecting Representative Kirsten E. Gillibrand, an upstate lawmaker in her second term in Congress.
I’m losing count of how many times this has happened. Just a guess, but I’m thinking that the problem has to be a rather bad one that couldn’t be whitewashed enough, even with the Kennedy clan wielding the brushes.
Via Memeorandum
By tarpon, January 22, 2009 @ 6:03 pm
Rich air head liberals. No wonder they want to legalize them illegals, hey wait, won’t they have to pay taxes then? It’s not like the air heads can’t afford it, now is it.
By martian, January 23, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
“What is it with rich liberals? ”
Exactly – they can’t seem to figure out how to pay their taxes. Aren’t they supposed to have ‘people’ for that? And the really funny thing is – apparently no one cares. Geithner is going to be confirmed as Treasury Secretary even though he didn’t bother paying his taxes until he was nominated for the job. And I will bet we have not heard the last of Princess Caroline and her political ambitions, either.