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No More Mister Nice Blog — RACISM 2.0 Lovely juxtaposition of headline and photo on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal's Web site: And on the page with the editorial itself. Look, don't be impressed by the fact that David Duke has denounced the GOP for picking Michael Steele as RNC chair. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Republicans who delightedly pointed that out to Politico's Ben Smith -- I'm sure they think that's wonderful publicity (Look, we've offended that nasty racist!) But the upscale ...
D-Day for Daschle
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... to Chariman Max Baucus and ranking member Charles Grassley yesterday apologizing for his "unintentional mistakes," and it appears enough of the establishment has rallied around him to save his nomination. Nevertheless, the Wall Street Journal puts the boot in, as it should: As a legal tax matter, this isn't even a close call. Mr. Daschle says he used the car service about 80% for personal use, and 20% for business. But his spokeswoman says it only dawned on the Senator last June that this might be taxable income. Mr. Daschle's excuse? According to a Journal report Friday, ...
The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Pollster Geoffrey Garin, a top Democratic strategist, says Steele puts "a better, friendlier face" on the GOP, but the party's problems are deep-seated. "He has a very steep hill to climb" to change that, Garin says.
“As a black Roman Catholic conservative from Washington, D.C., and Maryland, I also know how to lose elections.”
Aww: "Change we can believe in, as long as we pay attention to the disappointing asterisk on the word 'change,' "
Daschle and Democratic standards.
Olmert: Do not make me come ...
What the sidewalk is to you, a limousine and chauffeur is to Tom Daschle.
Althouse —
You need to understand that if you want to know why it never occurred to him that he needed to report it as taxable income: As a legal tax matter, this isn't even a close call. Mr. Daschle says he used the car service about 80% for personal use, and 20% for business. But his spokeswoman says it only dawned on the Senator last June that this might be taxable income. Mr. Daschle's excuse? According to a Journal report Friday, "he told committee staff he had grown used to having a car and driver as majority leader and did not think to report the perk on his taxes, ...
Wow.
Shakesville —
From the Wall Street Journal's Op-Ed page: Yeah. From the lead-in headline: Okay, not that the Daschle story isn't news, and not that this op-ed isn't full of typical conservative whinging that deserves to be mocked, and not that I'm ignoring the importance of the tax evasion, but... really? Really? Who in the fuck thought that this headline was appropriate and a good idea? Who's editing over there? I knew that Obama would be attacked viciously from the moment he ...
The Blinding Double Standards Of The Democrat Party And The MSM On Display
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
But are voters and the American taxpaying public watching? Do they even give two damns?
WAKE UP!
WSJ:
Driving Mr. Daschle
Tax avoidance and Democratic Party standards.
So Tom Daschle, the erstwhile prairie populist and scourge of multiple Presidential nominees, failed to disclose and pay taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars of income. He also waited months to pay up and told the Obama transition team about his tax oversights only days before his Senate confirmation hearing to become Secretary ...
Daschle's Day In The Spotlight
JustOneMinute —
... before his friends in the Senate today. The WSJ is scathing: Geez, you mean the whole "hope and change" shtick was just a ploy to gull the rubes? You can't imagine my surprise. I am sooo looking forward to April 15 (that's tax-filing day for the Democrats out there). Instead of vexing myself with hours of tedious record-review I'll just put down any numbers that pop into my head, secure in the knowledge that a simple apology will suffice if I'm ever questioned. Well, first I have to change my party registration to "D" and mail that check to Obama... [ ...
Serfs, up!
Cold Fury —
... Posted by Mike @ 8:27 PM Monday, 2 February 2009 Maguire says that the WSJ is scathing in its editorial response to dirtball Daschle’s near-criminally offensive excuse-making for his outright criminal tax evasion - -and he’s right. But he doesn’t exactly ...
You Know Who Would Vote Against Tom Daschle's Nomination For HHS Secretary?
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
Tom Daschle. That's who . The former Senate Majority Leader has done far more to earn the distrust of the Senate than have his erstwhile victims while Daschle was a Senate floor leader and had the power to order his fellow Democrats to sink the nominations of people he essentially targeted for political purposes. Why his nomination should not similarly sleep with the fishes is beyond me . . . unless we just want to throw consistency completely out the window, of course. Meanwhile, Ezra Klein informs us that because "[t]he Senate knows Tom Daschle. He ...
You Know Who Would Vote Against Tom Daschle’s Nomination For HHS Secretary?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Tom Daschle. That’s who.
The former Senate Majority Leader has done far more to earn the distrust of the Senate than have his erstwhile victims while Daschle was a Senate floor leader and had the power to order his fellow Democrats to sink the nominations of people he essentially targeted for political purposes. Why his nomination should not similarly sleep with the fishes is beyond me . . . unless we just want to throw consistency completely out the window, of course.
Meanwhile, Ezra Klein informs us that because “[t]he ...
My My, WSJ, What Big Ones You Have
Suburban Guerrilla —
I think we need to give the Wall St. Journal the Big Brass Balls award for this one:
This one is going to be fascinating to watch, less for what it says about Mr. Daschle than what it will reveal about Democratic standards. Every Republican in America knows that if Mr. Daschle were a Reagan or Bush nominee he’d now be headed back to private life faster than you can say John Tower. That’s the way Democrats have treated GOP nominees who were accused of far lesser transgressions than Mr. Daschle’s tax, er, avoidance. The ...
