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Things Heard: e53v1
Stones Cry Out —
... … the weasel word for the day.
St. Maximus and hospitality via ontology.
That Brazilian hasn’t been to Chicago yet.
Obama and the tyrant.
Netflix’s next move?
Computer nerds through the ages.
CAIR.
A film reviewed: Taken.
The revolving door and the Democratic party.
Of course not.
Libs against Dashle, one and two. And a view from the right.
Hair, puns ...
Strike Force Update
Balloon Juice —
... Now, I’m firmly in the Glenn Greenwald/Matt Taibbi camp of people who are sickened by Daschle’s willingness to whore himself. But nothing special about Tom Daschle? The guy was the fucking Senate majority leader. How much more special can you be in Washington? ...
2/2: First Geithner, Now Daschle?
Blogometer —
... that Barack Obama 's nominee for HHS Sec., ex-Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD), failed to pay more than $128K in taxes. Lefty bloggers are complaining that Daschle "embodies everything that is sleazy, sickly, and soul-less about Washington" and are ...
The Real Problem With Tom Daschle
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... . But as Glenn Greenwald notes, unpaid taxes aren't the only thing that should make you think twice about Tom Daschle. In 2002, our own ...
Daschle And The Beltway
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The more you read, the uglier it gets:
So here's a case where a senator's wife gets a high-ranking government job, which in turn boosts her earning power as a lobbyist. She then represents clients who have business with and give money to her husband. Those clients pay her big bucks to help fight safety regulations and to win government money -- money which helps pay the senator's mortgage. Daschle isn't the only one to use civil marriage in this way. But it is a particularly potent and common form of perfectly legal ...
Tom Daschle, Survivor
TPM Election Central —
... necessary but not sufficent precondition to surviving these things. Second, Max Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee which has jurisdiction over Daschle's nomination, came out for him despite a history of tension between the two. Third, Obama stood by Daschle--a sentiment echoed by Robert Gibbs at his press conference although Gibbs used the slightly miffed phrase, "a report we heard this weekend," about the Daschle contretemps. Fourth: Silence. The blogs are not on fire--yes, there's Greenwald, I know--but there's not pitchfork mob calling for his head of the size ...
Daschle: Tax Cheat and Lobbyist
Patterico's Pontifications —
... former lawmaker to jump to the lucrative world of lobbying and law firm work in what has become an increasing trend.
Hmmm. Guess the Washington Post considered Daschle to be a lobbyist, just like NPR — and just like any man off the street would. (Maybe I should ask Greg Packer what he thinks!) Registered or not, the guy’s a lobbyist — pure and simple.
Well, at least he’s popular with the left. Here’s Glenn Greenwald, who says Daschle
embodies everything that is sleazy, ...
2/3: But Why Gregg?
Blogometer —
... -- who blasted Daschle yesterday -- expects the Senate to confirm him: "Just to be clear: I didn't write about Tom Daschle's sleazy history in order to initiate a crusade to defeat his nomination. I wrote about Daschle because the ways in which he is sleazy are illustrative of how the Washington establishment generally works. [...] It doesn't really matter how slimy Daschle is or what revelations emerge about what he has done. The last thing that is disqualifying in Washington is an eagerness to profit off of one's political connections. [...] Daschle is going to be ...
Daschle Withdraws
Firedoglake —
It was the right thing to do. And it speaks really well of Obama that he didn't put personal loyalty above principle.
So... what to do about Tom Daschle?
The Reaction —
... In Glenn Greenwald's view, Daschle is a frequent feeder at the Beltway trough: "He embodies everything that is sleazy, sickly, and soul-less about Washington. It's probably impossible for Obama to fill his cabinet with individuals entirely free of Beltway filth -- it's extremely rare to get anywhere near that system without being infected by it -- but Daschle oozes Beltway slime from every pore." Ouch. (To quote Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, as Glenn does: "In Washington there are whores and there are whores, and then there is Tom Daschle." Double ouch.) ...
