Is the Obama White House already in trouble?
[Via Los Angeles Times] It’s been a tough 10 days in the life of the 4-week-old Obama White House. 
Tom Daschle has to withdraw as the president’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services for failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who managed to squeeze through confirmation hearings despite his own tax problems, bombs in laying out the president’s new Wall Street rescue plan. The street tanks.
Sen. Judd Gregg, the independent-minded Republican senator from New Hampshire (which kind of describes the whole state) decides at the last minute that he doesn’t want to be President Obama’s secretary of Commerce after all.
He cites his discomfort with Obama fiscal policies — and, as The Ticket reported earlier, political battles over the 2010 Census. All this after New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Obama’s first choice, had already pulled out of consideration because of an ethics probe.
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