What is the Difference Between Caroline Kennedy and Timothy Geithner?

 What is the difference between Caroline Kennedy and Timothy Geithner? That is the question that first came to my mind after I heard the reasons why Caroline Kennedy withdrew her name from consideration of Hillary Clinton’s senate seat.

 Timothy Geithner was approved today as Secretary of the Treasury and will be in charge of the IRS even though he is a known tax evader. He also had an issue with hiring an illegal alien.

 Caroline Kennedy withdrew her name from consideration for a senate seat for tax and nanny related issues.

 Both people had basically the same issues yet one has become a rather influential member of President Obama’s cabinet and the other has been banished from a senate seat. Timothy Geithner claims he made an honest mistake while Caroline Kennedy claims that she made an innocent mistake.

 Surely a simple tax problem can’t disqualify a person from holding a senate seat. After all her uncle drove a woman into a lake while he was drunk and instead of helping her he went home to sleep it off while she slowly drowned afraid and alone. Once sober the next morning he called the police but it was much too late to save his secret lover. And he wasn’t disqualified to hold a senate seat.

 So what is the difference between Caroline Kennedy and Timothy Geithner? Why shouldn’t Caroline Kennedy be allowed to serve on the senate, at least she didn’t kill anybody.