For Daschle, Democrats Are the Farewell Party

Washington Post ^ | 3/2/05 | Ann Gerhart

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The DUmbocRATS held a pity-party for Tommy. They are "deeply saddened", and reading about it warms the heart.

[RushCrush]

Consider the cockles of my heart warmed too.

The $ I sent to Thune was the best I ever spent.

[TheBigB]

"He doesn't know yet what to do with himself after 26 years in office." = "He has absolutely no discernable skills that would allow him to survive in the private sector. Somebody please give him a job as a lobbyist."

[wmileo]

He doesn't know yet what to do with himself after 26 years in office. "I'm taking my time" in deciding, he said, "which is what everybody told me to do."

Stay home.

[theDentist]

I hear now he's "deeply saddened". (Sorry, but I can't find the required photo of him in the chair, looking like the definition of despair.)

[CSM]

Who?

[RAY]

My joy at Tommy's loss was eclipsed only by the GWB win.

[tumblindice]

'They got a name for the winners in the world, I want a name when I lose . . .' Steely Dan, 'Deacon's Blues'

They go by the name: "obstructionist Democrats". Now looking for work.

[ride the whirlwind]

..."I'm taking my time" in deciding, he said...

Take all the time you need, Tom, all the time you need. Ha!

[dutchess]

[Howlin]

It felt like a melancholy affair, a party with the fight knocked out of it, Rod Stewart on tape scratching his way through a desultory "The Way You Look Tonight." The way they looked last night was sad and meek. What Might Have Been hung over the room, above the murmur of polite chatter of vacations Daschle could take and the integrity he had displayed.

[theDentist]

Thank you. I have recorded the URL for future reference.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"He doesn't know yet what to do with himself after 26 years in office."

Yeah. It's going to be tough actually having to WORK for a living now!

[1Old Pro]

Poor Tommy. He now has to pay to get his shoes shined now that all the boot lickers have dropped him.

[Howlin]

The tallest of the dark suits, John Kerry, could be seen from nearly every vantage point in the cavernous hall. John Edwards, who gave up his Senate seat to be Kerry's running mate, worked the room, doing that thing where he reached out with one hand toward the next supplicant while still clasping the last one who had buttonholed him. A waiter said to his colleague, "That's the guy who ran for vice president."

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And Max Cleland, whom party lore lionizes as the first Democratic senator to fall to Republican character assassination, in 2002, also delivered a poem that was hardly gracious. "This message to those who attack you," he warned; "you reap what you sow, so watch your back. We're still following the leader, and you can all go to hell."

Boy, it's talk like that that really makes you miss having old Max in the Senate. The misery and bitterness of these losers is music to my ears.

[1Old Pro]

A waiter said to his colleague, "That's the guy who ran for vice president."

Vice-President? of what....never heard of the guy.

[blam]

"Yeah. It's going to be tough actually having to WORK for a living now!"

Work? Shoot, he's gonna live of the pension that you and I paid for...a pension like you and I will never see.

[GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco]

Na-na-na-na
na-na-na-na
hey-hey
goodbye

[sydbas]

Linda Daschle, an airline industry lobbyist

Is this the first time the MSM has mentioned the fact that Daschle's wife is an airline lobbyist? I don't believe it was ever mentioned when Daschle was holding up changes to airline security following 9/11.