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Tag Archive for ‘Tom Daschle’

Daschle’s old car ad

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdrp8vIoofA&hl=en&fs=1] Oh the irony.

Obama’s astericks

During almost two years on the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to slay the demons of Washington, bar lobbyists from his administration and usher in what he would later call in his Inaugural Address a “new era of responsibility.” What he did not talk much about were the asterisks. The exceptions that went unmentioned now […]

Oozing Beltway slime

How serious Obama is about health care reform remains to be seen. Obama supporters argue that Obama needs someone like Daschle, with credibility within the health care industry, in order to achieve real reform. That’s the standard explanation for most of what Obama does (he’s only courting the establishment in order to change it), and though […]