Posted on 11/21/2002 8:12:16 PM PST by Common Tator
Have you pondered why Daschle attacked Limbaugh?
Consider.
Daschle could have passed all the appropriation bills this year but he decided on a continuing resolution to continue them until next year when he might have the house and he would certainly have 2 or 3 more votes in the Senate. Then he looks up on election night and realized he has handed control of this years appropriations to Bush and Trent Lott."
Not too good for the Daschle strategy reputation is it?
Then Tommy finds out Bush has talked to a bunch of Democrat Senators and they are ticked at what McAuliffe and Daschle had done to them. Atter the chats Daschle no longer has 40 votes to filibuster the Home Security bill. Bush had 65 votes to bring it up over Daschles dead body. The cloture vote tells you how many democrats were in Bush's hip pocket.
Bush gets it bought up in a Senate DASCHLE STILL CONTROLS. Remember... why didn't lott just wait He is letting Daschle stay in charge .... bla .. bla Uh HUH. Pay attention people. What happened?
All Daschle could do was pretend it was his idea to bring it up. Bush was prepared to humiliate him by passing it his way, before Talent took office. Bush got homeland security with the same senators who had blocked bush in 2001 and 2002. Those Democratic senators used to be aligned with their brother Daschle. Now they were scared to death of George Dubya Bush."
It would hurt the Daschle ego and reputation if that is noticed... wouldn't it?
Yes Senator Byrd before the new Republicans even took office, Bush has control of 16 DEMOCRATIC Senators. Look at the cloture vote on Homeland Security. It was 65 to 29. Bush had 16 Democrats who had served the last two years fighting him, now voting with him. Note that 6 Democrats didn't even show up to vote. Put that in a New York phone book and sit on it...
That is called humiliating DASCHLE with a capital D. Daschle could no longer control the senators he HAD before the Election. That is your basic bad omen.
Daschle had to turn the attention from what Bush and Lott had just done to him. So Daschle tried to kick Rush Limbaugh in the teeth...to change the subject and draw attention else where
It ain't easy being a little Daschle He has to bait and switch a lot...or they will figure out where that Bushwhacking Red Hot Bush poker went up the Daschle anatomy. If the truth be told it dang near rectum.
Because attacking the "right-wing conspiracy" worked so well when Hillary! had to find someone to blame for Bubba's nasty 'ole DNA match?
Bump!
LOL!
The Dims saw the writing on the wall....and they only voted to save their hides.
The funny think was Daschle voted for final passage. Daschle put out rumors that he was not going to run in 2004 for re-election. He was likely just trying to stop Rove from working on defeating him already. But his vote tells you me intends to run in 2004.
But it shows the level of Daschles intelligence. The Limbaugh attack had to be a diversionary tactic. It was not going to hurt Rush. It would not help the Democratic agenda one bit. It would just motivate the right. At least 40 or 50 million americans have listened to Rush for more than a few minutes. Nearly half the voters know what Daschle said was a lie.
It had to be to divert attention. The congress had ajourned. It had to be that what had just happened required the diversion. He must have beleived that people would notice what had happened to him. The truth is no one cared. Bush's exercise in power was not done for public consumption. It was done as payback to Daschle. Not public payback. Just payback. The senators noticed, a few media noticed, but they would not report it.
Daschle does not understand that.
Daschle is getting easy to read. Bush is going to play with Tommy a lot. Maybe Gephardt did have it figured. Get out of Dodge before the shoot out at the OK coral starts.
Here's some shrill dem rhetoric:
The president is stupid.
The president wants to attack Iraq without evidence.
The president's inaction on global warming is immoral.
The president doesn't care about the earth because he doesn't support the Kyoto Treaty.
The president's economic policies are responsible for a bad economy.
The president want's to take away seniors soc security.
These kind of allegations have lead to many death threats against W if we believe the logic we've been hearing. The dems owe the president and his family an apology and need to curb their shrill rhetoric.
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