Is there anyone Obama knows who HAS paid their taxes?

This record is so broken. US Trade Representative nominee Ron Kirk is now in trouble for not paying taxes. No one in the media questioning Obama's vetting procedures. Ron Kirk and his friends are all smiles. Oh you caught me, guess I'll pay my taxes. There were a couple of issues, but mainly back taxes are owed on taking deductions for tickets to Dallas Mavericks games. Because, you know, that's work.

The questions here isn't so much what exactly are the rules, when one candidate withdraws for owing less than $1000 but Kirk presses on. The question isn't about whether he was trying to cheat the tax man. He deducted the cost of tickets to basketball games. Nuff said.

The real question is what would the reporting sound like right now if Kirk, Geithner and Obama were Republicans?