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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Rebranding? Hmm, just put it in a different package. Think up some new slogans. That'll work. Yep.
The mule has been hit several times with the 2x4 and still is not paying attention. Amazing.
Glad Dasshole is gone....wonder why he doesn't move back to SD...it actually says volumes....thank God the people of SD got it....his home is DC and for yrs has NOT been SD.
General, I heard you were . . . still dead. But you look fine!
Not many people get to attend their own wake.
That's really going to win hearts and minds. /sarcasm! BTW, what "leader"?! Hillary?!
Ceremony
Tribute to Tom Daschle
Democratic Party
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 185714 - 03/01/2005 - 0:57 - $24.95
Kennedy, Edward M., U.S. Senator, D-MA
Reid, Harry, U.S. Senator, D-NV
Daschle, Thomas A., U.S. Senator, D-SD
Pelosi, Nancy, U.S. Representative, D-CA
Cleland, Max, Commissioner, National Cmsn. on Terrorist Attacks
Current and former Democratic leaders will honor former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle. Tom Daschle lost his re-election bid in November. Some friends hosted a tribute to him at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
"My joy at Tommy's loss was eclipsed only by the GWB win."
Bush's win was the cake. Daschle's defeat was the icing. :)
As with a lot of other reps' and senators', their loyalties lie with special interest, and not with their constituents.
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