Posted on 01/19/2005 12:49:12 PM PST by kattracks
South Dakota Republican Senator-elect John Thune will be easy to find in his home district.
That's because he's taking over the very office of the man he dethroned, former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle.Thune has assumed "ownership" of Daschle's longtime Rapid City office. In fact, he took down Daschle's sign and put up his own on New Year's Eve, ABC-TV affiliate KOTA is reporting.
Sharing office space – in a sense – is an irony because during a hard-fought political campaign, Thune and Daschle shared very little, especially in terms of politics.
Republicans drafted Thune, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, to run against South Dakota's other liberal senator, Democrat Tim Johnson, in 2002. Thune lost in heartbreaking fashion – by just 500 votes.
He came back in 2004 to challenge the obstructionist Daschle for his seat.
So riveting was the match-up – conservatives were hoping beyond hope that the main obstacle to President Bush's agenda in the Senate would be ousted – that Roll Call, Capitol Hill's newspaper of record, ran an Oct. 4, 2004 story headlined "After Bush-Kerry, Thune-Daschle is the Main Event."
As Senate minority leader, Daschle became synonymous with spearheading Democrat-led filibusters of many nominees he believed were not liberal enough to sit on the federal bench.
Polls showed a tight race all the way up to Election Day, though a few weeks out Daschle was still holding a narrow lead. Thune won by only 4,500 votes.
One point of satisfaction for Thune: His mentor and personal hero, former Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Abdnor from South Dakota, who lost a re-election bid to Daschle in 1986, was in Thune's headquarters the evening of Nov. 2 to witness Daschle's demise.
As for the office space, the ABC-TV affiliate says a Thune staffer claims the site was chosen because it is conveniently located. But we think maybe Thune, like the majority of South Dakota voters in his district, just couldn't wait to see Daschle go.
"But we think maybe Thune, like the majority of South Dakota voters in his district, just couldn't wait to see Daschle go."
America thanks South Dakota!
Hehehehehehehe!
Still relishing the Thune victory!!!!
Buh Bye Tommy D!!!!!!!
With the victor, come the spoils. (or something like that)
Great way for Thune to reinforce Daschle's demise!
Correct, but he probably was when the article was written.
It would be ironic if they were in fact sharing office space, but they are not. So I'm not sure what the point of that sentence is.
I hope Thune checks it for bugs.
For it to be literal, doesn't actual boot have to meet actual butt? I read the article and don't recall seeing anything like that.
Titles like this should not so cruelly raise hopes.
I suppose he is living in his wife's mansion just outside the beltway and spending his time with the liberal elites and Hollywood lefties rather than out here in flyover country.
It would be ironic if they were in fact sharing office space, but they are not. So I'm not sure what the point of that sentence is.
It’s ironic because they’re not sharing office space even though Newsmax said it was ironic that they did.
This is all post-Alannis, where everything is sort of ironic, don’t ya think?
deeply, deeply saddened
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
Daschle's beeber has been Thuned!
Yeah, but what is really ironic is most of Alannis's examples of irony were not in fact irony. No that's ironic.
Deeply . . deeply . . saddened
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