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A brief but telling episode from As The MSM Mask Slips . . . On her MSNBC show this afternoon, chatting with chum and fellow Obama fan Tom Daschle about the anniversary of the killing of OBL, Andrea Mitchell said: "What do you think of the Republican criticism that we are politicizing it, that the White House, I should say, is politicizing it"? View the video here.

My sources tell me President Obama had a heads-up on Tom Daschle's tax problems nine days before they came out in the press. I'm also told that Daschle offered to step aside as Obama's health and human services secretary nominee before the story got out, but that Obama, who thinks of Daschle as some kind of father figure, said "no." If that's how it happened, then the new president wins the Rookie of the Week award, hands down. He should have accepted Daschle's offer then and there. Obama was being loyal. But in this business, sooner or later you learn...

Would be part of broader bill limiting hedge funds, credit-raters, and mortgage securitizers; 'deeply rooted anger' ---- Congress will consider legislation to extend some of the curbs on executive pay that now apply only to those banks receiving federal assistance, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said. “There’s deeply rooted anger on the part of the average American,” the Massachusetts Democrat said at a Washington news conference today. He said the compensation restrictions would apply to all financial institutions and might be extended to include all U.S. companies. The provision will be part of a broader package that would...

Daschele removes name from nomination for HHS

In one of his first moves as top Democrat in the Senate, incoming Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is consolidating staff operations under his control while establishing a press operation that is planning more aggressive attacks on Republicans. The new Democratic leader is reestablishing authority over a variety of Democratic leadership organizations — the Democratic Policy Committee (DPC), the Democratic Steering Committee, and the Democratic Communications Committee — all of which are headed by other Democratic senators. Some staff from these groups could end up being folded into a new Democratic “war room” being assembled to counter the GOP’s political...

I am watching Tim Russert with Tom Dashole and John Thune.....Thune is such a great stand up guy.....and Tom is ...well...just a Dash Hole! Go To Thune's website and CONTRIBUTE...I promise you this is the icing on the cake....A GW LANDSLIDE, MSM Destroyed and TOM DASHOLE sent home!

Does Anybody Have A Classic Caption For Saddam's Last TV Appearance?Thanks! E_C_N

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DEMOCRATS PUTTING PARTY OVER COUNTRY The day before President Bush delivered the State of the Union address, Sen. Tom Daschle (D, SO) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) marched to the National Press Club to declare, "The state of the union is anxious." Whatever anxiety existed, they exploited with gusto. In a jaw-dropping performance, the Senate and House Minority Leaders mounted a venomous State-of-the-Union "pre-buttal," proceeding to rip the President on everything from the economy to the war on terror. Not much, according to these Democrats, was right with the way America was being governed, and they were just the...

Does Anybody Have a Classic Caption for This Photo of our Supreme High Commander in the Senate?Photoshops & Dictator Photos More Than Welcome ;^)Thanks! E_C_N

Tommy Daschole won't take phone calls from out of staters in DC, they give you to an answering machine and say if you live in the state gives you a 1-800 # that can only be called from 605 area code.

Just five days ago, President Bush's strong appeal to the United Nations for collective action on Iraq allayed world suspicion that the United States was a go-it-alone superpower bent on war and forged a broad consensus that Iraq must give up any weapons of mass destruction or face the consequences. Now Iraq's sudden offer to readmit international weapons inspectors has turned the world again, and left Mr. Bush scrambling with mixed success to press his case for disarming Iraq and dislodging Saddam Hussein as the next milestone in his campaign against terrorism. In Washington today, Vice President Dick Cheney lobbied...

<p>RAPID CITY, S.D. — Republican Rep. John Thune says even the support of President Bush in his Senate race doesn't neutralize what he calls the heavy-handed tactics of fellow South Dakotan Tom Daschle, the Democratic Senate majority leader fighting to stay in power.</p>

REVIEW & OUTLOOKTrial-Lawyer TrifectaAs John McCain kept telling us, campaign finance reform was going to reduce if not end special-interest influence in Washington. Perhaps the Senator forgot to tell the plaintiffs' bar, which is dominating the current Congressional session as completely as any lobby ever has.From asbestos-litigation reform to terrorism insurance to even the patients' bill of rights, the tort lawyers areblocking whatever they don't like. So great is their clout in the Senate that the lawyers are even inducing Democrats to kill their own self-professed priorities. Ed Hyman's ISI Group calls it the "trial lawyer trifecta," but even that...

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is warning his South Dakota constituents about "out-of-state special interests" criticizing his voting record in Congress, but records show a majority of his campaign money came from out-of-state donors. Missing from that March 20 warning, which came in the form of a letter to South Dakotans, was the fact that campaign finance records show more than 85 percent of the money in Daschle's reelection war chest comes from contributors outside the state. Daschle sent the letter to defend himself against the "partisan obstructionist" label he says is being applied to him by his political opponents,...

Having just watched the CBS Special telecast of quot;9-11quot;, I have to ask if Senator Tommy DascHOLE is still having a hard time trying to figure out just why some of us American citizens were more than a little displeased with him over his questioning the leadership provided by President George W. Bush in our war against terrorism. Honestly, I sure hope that the little guy can figure this one out. If not, then he is even a bigger moron that I give him credit for.