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For Daschle, Democrats Are the Farewell Party
Washington Post ^ | 3/2/05 | Ann Gerhart

Posted on 03/02/2005 6:57:15 AM PST by advance_copy

Everybody leaves the world's most exclusive club sometime, and last night the tribute at the National Building Museum was for a man who had left it most reluctantly -- Democrat Tom Daschle, tossed out of the Senate in November by the good people of South Dakota after an expensive and contentious race.

"Tom wasn't wild about this, to tell you the truth," said his wife, Linda Daschle, an airline industry lobbyist, as she surveyed the room of about 400 guests, including nearly all 44 Democratic senators. "He wasn't about looking back. But so many of his Senate family wanted to say thank you."

And the former minority leader, during the cocktail hour, smiled and shook hands and accepted claps on the back and, Daschle said, "enjoyed the moment." 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."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buhbye; daschle; deeplysaddened; dumbocrat; loser; seeya
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The DUmbocRATS held a pity-party for Tommy. They are "deeply saddened", and reading about it warms the heart.
1 posted on 03/02/2005 6:57:15 AM PST by advance_copy
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Consider the cockles of my heart warmed too.

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


2 posted on 03/02/2005 6:58:02 AM PST by RushCrush (I like America to some extent. -Michael Moore)
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"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."
3 posted on 03/02/2005 7:00:33 AM PST by TheBigB ("Send lawyers, guns and money; the s*it has hit the fan" ~Warren Zevon)
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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.


4 posted on 03/02/2005 7:01:36 AM PST by wmileo
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To: advance_copy

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.)


5 posted on 03/02/2005 7:03:14 AM PST by theDentist (The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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Who?


6 posted on 03/02/2005 7:05:09 AM PST by CSM (Currently accepting applications for the job of stay at home mom.)
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My joy at Tommy's loss was eclipsed only by the GWB win.


7 posted on 03/02/2005 7:07:50 AM PST by RAY (They that do right are all heroes!)
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'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.


8 posted on 03/02/2005 7:07:57 AM PST by tumblindice (Our Founding Fathers: all conservative gun owners)
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..."I'm taking my time" in deciding, he said...

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

9 posted on 03/02/2005 7:11:23 AM PST by ride the whirlwind
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10 posted on 03/02/2005 7:12:26 AM PST by dutchess
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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.

11 posted on 03/02/2005 7:13:07 AM PST by Howlin (Free the Eason Jordan Tape!!!)
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Thank you. I have recorded the URL for future reference.


12 posted on 03/02/2005 7:14:35 AM PST by theDentist (The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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"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!


13 posted on 03/02/2005 7:15:09 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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Poor Tommy. He now has to pay to get his shoes shined now that all the boot lickers have dropped him.


14 posted on 03/02/2005 7:16:50 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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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."


15 posted on 03/02/2005 7:17:13 AM PST by Howlin (Free the Eason Jordan Tape!!!)
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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.

16 posted on 03/02/2005 7:17:26 AM PST by speedy
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A waiter said to his colleague, "That's the guy who ran for vice president."

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

17 posted on 03/02/2005 7:19:01 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"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.

18 posted on 03/02/2005 7:20:19 AM PST by blam
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To: tumblindice

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


19 posted on 03/02/2005 7:21:09 AM PST by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco
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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.

20 posted on 03/02/2005 7:22:56 AM PST by sydbas
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