Update on Tom Daschle's tax issues

By GottaLaff

Original post here. Liveblogging.

Now CNN is reporting that there was one month of consulting income that Daschle didn't pay taxes on awhile back, $90,000 worth. But he never got the right tax form, or some such thing...

He had a limo and a chauffeur for 3 years that he didn't pay for, that he got from a business associate, who offered to give him his car and driver. He used it 80% of the time for personal use. In June 2008 he looked at it and thought he should be paying taxes on it, so he did.

Plus, he claimed donations to charities that apparently weren't charities.

They've been investigating for about a month now.

But he will be confirmed anyway, Dana Bash reports. Ed Henry is reporting that President Obama is standing by him. Plus, he says, the Senate, being the club that it is, stands by its own.

Anderson Cooper is noting how the Obama team is usually second to none at vetting, and yet this happened.

Mark Halperin is saying it's an embarrassment, but not fatal unless Democrats make something of it.

Paul Begala says that Daschle is a respected senator and gets the benefit of the doubt, as long as Senate Dems don't protest. Reid is supporting him strongly.

The consensus so far is, since the White House and Harry Reid are behind him, he's in. The only glitch would be if Democrats start turning on him. The Republicans, of course, will, they say. And they are so right.