blogs.tnr.com - 2/3/2009
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Two quick points about Daschle's withdrawal: 1.) My read of what happened: Daschle was obviously personally close to Obama--he'd supported Obama early on; stocked his campaign with key lieutenants, lobbied superdelegates on his behalf. All of that said, the only way Daschle was going to survive ...
cbsnews.com - 2/4/2009
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cbsnews.com —
(CBS) President Obama had hoped to focus today
on his economic stimulus package Tuesday, and he invited
a handful of journalists to the White House to talk about it. But it was all overshadowed by former Sen. Tom Daschle's withdrawing his nomination ...
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Obama On Daschle: "I Messed Up", CBS Evening News: ...
latimes.com - 2/4/2009
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latimes.com —
"If anything, there's more urgency for us to
keep up the momentum," Senate Finance Committee chairman Max
Baucus (D-Mont.) said Tuesday after Daschle's announcement. Skyrocketing healthcare costs and the growing ranks of the uninsured have driven a ...
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Daschle's withdrawal won't derail healthcare reform - ...
online.wsj.com - 2/4/2009
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online.wsj.com —
Just as Tom Daschle's Senate pals were preparing
to grant absolution for his six-figure tax-free limousine --
could've happened to anyone -- the former Majority Leader yesterday withdrew his nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. ...
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Tom Daschle's Washington
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The Early Word on Daschle's Exit
Opinionator —
... against his appointment. Major columnists didn’t have time to attack his ethics. Moreover, these revelations didn’t come from Republican oppo researchers. They came from Daschle’s own files and admissions. This was not a GOP hit. The Obama administration didn’t move because they thought Republican senators would defeat his nomination. They moved because they, and the left, thought Daschle’s presence would harm the administration’s image and degrade their credibility on health care. Noam Scheiber at the Plank concurred with Klein: My read of what happened: Daschle was ...
Stupidity, they name is Maureen Dowd
The Reaction —
... , nominee. True, I thought that Daschle was the right man for the job -- or, rather, for the two jobs of HHS secretary and head of the White House health care reform office -- but there are other good candidates out there, including Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Kansas Gov. ...
HHS: The buzz on Ron Wyden
BlueOregon —
... quite the basketball player; he was a scholarship athlete at UC-Santa Barbara.
Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle:
[The entitlement problem is] also why [Obama] is going to tackle health care, which is inextricably linked to fixing Medicare. With Daschle gone and no back-up plan, health care guru Robert Laszewski floated the idea today of Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, on his must-read blog. It's a fascinating idea.
Noam Scheiber, New Republic:
One of the tactical arguments in favor of keeping ...
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/2/2009 — At the moment, you have to think Tom Daschle is going to pull this out. It's possible that his failure to pay taxes on a limo rides and other benefits he accrued from a New York financier. But several things have turned Daschle's way today.
First, ...
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blogs.abcnews.com 1/31/2009 — ABC News has obtained the Senate Finance Committee Report on Tom Daschle's nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which indicates that Daschle's tax problems were even more substantial than earlier reported. The ...
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/2/2009 — Tom Daschle's nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a serious snag, in the wake of a string of revelations mostly related to his payment of taxes on income he received as part of his consulting activities since he left the ...
Why Daschle May Have Jumped Too Soon
politics.theatlantic.com 2/4/2009 — Former Sen. Tom Daschle might have survived the maelstrom and survived to take a job at the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services, but history might reflect that the choice, ultimately, was his own.
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Reuters: Politics 2/3/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama's choice to spearhead U.S. healthcare reform stepped down in a flap over personal taxes on Tuesday, an embarrassing blow that distracted from the president's push for a nearly $900 billion economic stimulus plan.
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