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The Daschles: feeding at the Beltway trough - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 2/2/2009
The Daschles: feeding at the Beltway trough - Glenn Greenwald
— salon.com — (updated below - Update II - Update III) When Barack Obama announced in early December that he had selected Tom Daschle to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services as well as his "health care policy czar," Rolling Stone 's Matt Taibbi -- who had ... (more) The Daschles: feeding at the Beltway trough - Glenn ...

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washingtonpost.com - 2/1/2009
Daschle Delayed Revealing Tax Glitch
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Daschle Delayed Revealing Tax Glitch

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politico.com - 2/2/2009
Can Daschle placate GOP, Baucus?
— politico.com — Democratic aides complain that Baucus has slow-rolled Daschle's move to HHS. (more) Can Daschle placate GOP, Baucus?

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Sister Toldjah:  On Daschle’s tax issues, and media double standards

A Blog For All:  Obama Stands By Tax Cheats

Right Soup:  Tom Daschle Says Tom Daschle ‘Cheats Us All’

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On Daschle’s tax issues, and media double standards
Sister Toldjah — Ed Morrissey says it best: At some point, this nomination has to be more trouble than it’s worth. After all, no one will buy the notion that Daschle’s “uniquely qualified” for the HHS position as some did with Geithner at Treasury. The HHS position is a payback for Daschle’s support in the primaries, and Obama has a perfect excuse now to dump Daschle regardless of loyalty. By keeping his tax problems secret, he’s proven rather untrustworthy. And that gets to the heart of why the Senate should have rejected Geithner ...

Obama Stands By Tax Cheats
A Blog For All — ... . Also, since when exactly is tax evasion a glitch ? It seems that it was actually an intention to evade taxes, not a harmless mistake. Labels: ...

Tom Daschle Says Tom Daschle ‘Cheats Us All’
Right Soup — It only took a little over ten years to come back and bite him, but here’s what Tom Daschle thinks of tax-evading cheaters like himself: “Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. ” Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507. Yes. Yes, the IRS should do that. Ed Morrissey proposes tax-cheat Timothy Geithner should take point on that enforcement. This content is copyrighted by Right Soup. --- Related ...

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