Posted on 10/14/2003 6:27:34 PM PDT by Jean S
What ewwww, I was gonna say they answer children's letters to Santa in those hidden offices. What were you thinking????
Nevertheless, Daschle confesses that he was troubled when Bush, after expressing the hope that they could work together as closely as Bush had with Bob Bullock, his Democratic lieutenant governor in Texas, said, “I hope you’ll never lie to me.”maybe this perhaps?
“That statement caught me up short. What an unusual concern to express in such a meeting.… I’ve often wondered since then what George Bush might have been told about me that would make him begin this conversation, this relationship, from an implied position of mistrust.”
A new memoir by Minority Leader Tom Daschle says Senate Democrats were actively courting two Republicans — John McCain of Arizona and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island — as most likely to switch parties and give them control of the evenly divided Senate when Jim Jeffords of Vermont informed them he was ready to do so.
When you look at the quality of Democrat Senators - you get some idea of why many in the world regard the United States as a backward and evil empire....
Think about that for a moment"
Dasshole, Kennedy, Clinton, Schumer, Byrd, Hollings, Levin, Edwards, Graham, etc......
Semper Fi
What does he think Gore did in Florida? Act like a statesman? Accept the loss with dignity and character?
How is it that people as delusional as Daschole and as spineless as Lott get to be Senate majority leader in the greatest nation on earth?
He came by my office a couple of times for brief chats … but we were very careful about that. I never came near him on the Senate floor itself or, for that matter, in any location where the press or Republican members might see us.
“It was 7 a.m. when Harry and I arrived at Jim’s hideaway that Tuesday morning, and Jim got right down to business.
And he wonders why Bush might think he would lie to him. Too bad Daschle wasn't spending more time reading intelligence reports before September 11 rather than running covert operations in the Senate.
Hello? What color is the sky on your world, Dasshole?
Here on Earth, Gore challenged the results of the 2000 election for weeks until he finally got slapped down by the Supreme Court.
It also has the sound of a "let it all hang out, I did it my way" memorium.
Could it be that the book's release will be a prelude to Little Tommy's announcing his retirement?
If so, good riddance!
The Senior Senators (and some otherwise influential ones) have them. They are lounges more than offices; not listed in any official directory so you can't find one unless you are invited.
They've historically been used for cocktail parties and assignations of any type, but you can't believe the worst of any Senator just because they have one. Some of them use theirs to take a nap when they have to be on the Hill for a long time, and others use theirs for private parties when they are trying to court influence.
And of course, others use them for everything you can imagine.
By putting down members of their own party who disagree with them even more ruthlessly than they deal with the other party.
The most famous "hideaway office" belonged to LBJ when he was Majority Leader. His womainizing didn't get publicized as much as JFK or Bubba but it happened.
Who he had ridden like a wet whore throughout their entire professional relationsip...
• His implicit criticism of Gore’s personality: “Al Gore’s breadth and depth of knowledge, his experience, his grasp of the issue were clearly superior [to Bush]. But people liked Bush.” However, he credits Gore with acting in the nation’s best interests by not challenging the results of the 2000 election.
Brief pause for projectile vomiting...
• His disdain for former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) who he said was bent on “demonizing” Democrats and portraying them as not only wrong or misguided but “evil,” and his scathing criticism of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), whom he accused of ruling “by fear, by discouraging any form of dissent among his membership, and by punishing those who dare to disagree.”
Both far, far better men than this duplicitous dissembler could ever hope to be in his wildest ambitions.
• His revelation that he intended to run for president himself in 2004 until he decided, after enduring “excruciating” inner turmoil, that he did not want to risk giving up his Senate seat and could not run for president and lead his caucus “in a new Senate that had an aggressive and extremely empowered Republican majority.”
Translation: He polled in the lower fifth percentile and nobody gave the worthless scum any cash.
What alternate reality is this?
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