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| Tom Daschle’s Week From Hell |
| 2003-04-29 |
| As April waned, Sen. Tom Daschle had the week from hell. Not only did three polls in South Dakota indicate he is likely to be beaten for re-election next year by any one of several Republicans, but the local bishop took offense at Tom's calling himself a Catholic and raising funds for the National Abortion Rights League - a bloody-handed bunch if ever there was one. As a former South Dakotan, I can tell you that this will not sit well with the electorate there. Having divorced his wife Laurie in 1984 to marry a 1976 Miss Kansas, Daschle is not a Catholic communicant, but until the bishop told him to cut it out he has for political purposes continued to list himself as Catholic. The second wife, Linda Daschle, now makes out in Washington as a well-connected lobbyist who reportedly draws about $6 million a year from special interests, including airlines looking for huge taxpayer bailouts and other favors. This is why Tommy Boy (who earns $ 171,000/year as a Senator) can afford to pay over $ 2 M for a new house in the D.C. area. Common man of the people my ass. |
| Posted by:ColoradoConservative |
| #7 Out-RAGEOUS!!!Out-RAGEOUS!!! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-29 22:27:47 |
| #6 Fred I think you owe the good dead voters of South Dakota an apology. They have fought to stay on the voter rolls and carry Tom to victory in several districts. Fear not dead people! You have a friend in Tom Dash-it-All! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2003-04-29 20:42:13 |
| #5 Don't write Tom Thumb off yet. Remember, the polls don't cover dead people, and they only ask prospective voters once... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-04-29 18:03:45 |
| #4 I'm saddened, saddened that this senator failed so miserably at following Christian doctrine that we're now forced to chastise him, saddened that we have to give up one unborn child's life because this senator couldn't create the kind of introspectively honest effort that is so critical for our country. |
| Posted by: John Phares 2003-04-29 18:01:08 |
| #3 I like the stick-whipping, but a long losing campaign for Senator after he was Senate Majority Leader for a period will actually be more enjoyable. By the time it's done, he'll have used the "I'm concerned" and "I'm disappointed" cliches umpteen million times and might actually have physically shrunk to Robert Reich dimensions. He already has to stand on a raised platform to seem adult |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-29 17:01:10 |
| #2 Daschle is a skunk of the lowest order, a pandering butt monkey for poverty pimps USA, this man should be beaten with a stick |
| Posted by: Wills 2003-04-29 16:32:48 |
| #1 Sorry, the link didn't work. The above is from Insight magazine's The Insider column, April 28, 2003. http://www.insightmag.com/news/426735.html |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-04-29 16:25:25 |