Posted on 04/07/2005 8:42:50 PM PDT by Matchett-PI
"Tom Daschle's wife Linda was a lobbyist too. While he was the Donk Head of the Senate. Can't believe Rush forgot that!" ~ adam_az
So many hard left liberals - sooo little time!
I'm a 24/7 member, so can go back into the archives. Here is the tip of the iceberg of what Rush has on his web site regarding that subject [Note the date]:
Linda Daschle - Lobbyist
USA Today: Daschle, Lobbyist Wife Vow to Keep Careers Separate - 06.05.01
WASHINGTON - Tom Daschle's rise to the helm of the Senate spotlights an awkward fact of life for Washington's power couples: When professional lives intertwine, ethical conflicts can follow. The South Dakota Democrat's wife, Linda, is a lobbyist who mostly represents airlines, aircraft makers and other aviation-related interests - all of which have a steady stream of issues before the Senate. As majority leader, Tom Daschle has the power to set the Senate's agenda. ...
... Her client list includes airlines American and Northwest, aircraft maker Boeing, and aviation technology companies L-3 Communications, Loral and United Technologies. She also represents airport executives, airports in Cleveland and Englewood, Colo., and a trade association for concrete paving contractors. Those clients paid Daschle's law and lobbying firm, Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, about $1.1 million in the year ending last June, the most recent records available.
He will!
This was a great read. The media is SHAMEFUL. SHAMEFUL, SHAMEFULL, SHAMEFULL!
I have completely freed myself of MSM influence. I don't trust a word they say anymore. They are the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party.
Thanks. The more the MSM is discredited in the eyes of the public the less influence they'll have. They can't control the flow of information any more.
Dirty Harry could certainly be turned into a hamburger. In fact, I think Harry Reid is gone when he comes up for re-election. There is no way the social conservatives (mostly Mormons) in Nevada re-elect him after he opposes Bush's judges.
I hope they target him for defeat because it is certainly possible.
What I said! :) (#25)
"I hope they target him [Reid] for defeat because it is certainly possible." ~ mowkeka
Two can play the same "target" game.
One of the tactics that Hillary's mentor, Saul Alinsky advised DemocRATS to use involves "surrounding and freezing " their target. They followed Alinsky's tactics to the "T" when they went after Newt. They're doing the same thing to DeLay. They figure that by taking DeLay out of commission, they will be able to prevent President Bush from getting his agenda through Congress.
Note:
[Saul] Alinsky defined "obtaining power" as a key tactic of organizing his "mass jujitsu." His formula for attack: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it."
Read on:
New York Daily News Published: 1/17/00
"Hell to Pay" Author: BARBARA OLSON
"He who fears corruption fears life." - Saul Alinsky,
"Rules for Radicals"
This quote immediately came to mind after my reading of Hillary Rodham's Wellesley College senior thesis - a document kept under lock and key since the 1992 elections.
Back then, when researchers and journalists were searching for information on the newly elected First Couple, Wellesley suddenly declared that it would seal the thesis of any graduate who became President or First Lady.
A few weeks ago, however, I came into possession of Hillary's suppressed thesis.
In those 75 pages, the future First Lady reveals herself as someone steeped in the political lore and history of one of America's most political cities. No, not New York - Chicago. There she began her political journey from Goldwater girl to leftist icon.
The thesis' title, "There is Only the Fight ... An Analysis of the Alinsky Model," exposes Clinton's strong ideological attachment to her most influential mentor, Saul Alinsky.
Reading this work makes it clear why she had to remove it from public view, for Alinsky, who died in 1972, was a radical social activist who preached grass-roots organizing and intense, confrontational politics.
While Clinton was studying under Alinsky, he was preparing what would be his final and most important book: "Rules for Radicals," published less than two years after Hillary graduated from Wellesley and only one year before his death.
Alinsky's hold on Hillary is astonishingly evident in her thesis, which is replete with his yet-unpublished political tactics. The thesis reveals that he was moving from local organizing efforts to a new arena - the national stage.
She wrote: "His [Alinsky's] new aspect, national planning, derives from the necessity of entrusting social change to institutions, specifically the United States government."
Alinsky, we can now see, taught Hillary the political tactics that she successfully deployed in Arkansas and the White House and is now beginning to use in New York.
What were his lessons?
Alinsky defined "obtaining power" as a key tactic of organizing his "mass jujitsu." His formula for attack: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it."
This principle has become the essence of the Clinton rapid-response tactic and a key aspect of Hillary's attacks on what she has dubbed "a vast right-wing conspiracy."
The Clinton White House has adhered to Alinsky's rule that "ridicule is man's most potent weapon" and followed his advice to "let nothing get you off your target."
Hillary discusses another Alinsky rule - "power is the very essence, the dynamo of life" - in her thesis. Clearly, she had absorbed his lesson that one must first obtain power to achieve real change.
But nowhere in her thesis - or in her later life - does she seem to recognize the classical liberal critique that the relentless pursuit of power is antithetical to democracy.
Perhaps the most prescient part of the thesis is a quote from a profile of Alinsky in The Economist: "His charm lies in his ability to commit himself completely to the people in the room with him. In a shrewd though subtle way, he often manipulates them while speaking directly to their experience."
Although her thesis was written several years before she cornered Bill Clinton in the Yale Law School library, Hillary had come to recognize the potential power of a man of exceptional charm.
Alinsky recognized the potential of his student and offered her a paying job to develop organizers for "mass power-based organizations."
Hillary's thesis confirmed the offer and called it "tempting." But she decided law school was a better place to develop the skills necessary to effect the changes in government she has spent so much of her life trying to achieve.
Hillary's thesis received an A. So far, her political acumen in New York has yielded her at best a C-. But her story continues to unfold.
Barbara Olson is the author of "Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton." 73 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035840/posts?page=73#73 12-10-2003
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BILL, HILLARY, SAUL, AND MORAL RELATIVISM Saul Alinsky and the Lessons He Taught Bill and Hillary FR ^ | 03/23/00 | The Wanderer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886451/posts
R. Emmett Tyrrell references Alinsky quite often in his just released book Madame Hillary: The Road to the White House.
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Saul Alinsky - The Religious Left follows him "religiously". Their magazine: Sojourners
Rev. Jim Wallis, Editor, Sojourners Magazine
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=Soj0003&article=000311
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Hillary's mentor, Saul Alinsky in "Rules for Radicals":
"The first rule of power tactics is: power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886451/posts
LIBERAL = HYPOCRISY IS THY FIRST NAME
After the Pope's funeral, Rush and FReepers should put the Burger back on the front burner.
I forget there's the new Pope. Oh well...
Remember how those notes came to be discovered. Some Republican staffer ran into him he was accused of hacking the Democrat computer. Turns out that wasn't the case, but everybody then focused on, "How did that Republican get that memo?" rather than the contents of these Senate memos, rather than the contents of the memos which clearly spelled out a Democrat political strategy to destroy the character, the reputations and careers of a bunch of Bush judicial nominees, Hispanics, and blacks, and a female in one case.
Worth remembering.
Hypocrisy of the leftists, nothing new, nothing old, just sameO, sameO.
"... lest I stink from his S***
You already ARE suffering that problem, suspicious one.
"Barringer is listed in federal lobbyist reports as one of Hughes' representatives on the measure that his father-in-law introduced. Other provisions were intended to benefit a real estate development headed by a senior partner in the Nevada law firm that employs all four of Reid's sons — by moving the right-of-way for a federal power-transmission line off his property and onto what had been protected federal wilderness. The governments of three of Nevada's biggest cities — Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson — also gained from the legislation, which freed up tens of thousands of acres of federal land for development and annexation. All three were represented by Reid's family members who contacted his staff on their clients' behalf. The Clark County land bill, which was approved in a late-night session just before Congress recessed in October, reflects a new twist in an old game: These days, when corporations and other interests want to cement a vital relationship with someone in Congress, they're likely to reach out to hire a member of the family. Reid said he supported the bill because it was good for Nevada — and not because it helped his family's clients. And when it comes to lobbying relatives, he said, he has plenty of company. 'Lots of people have children, wives and stuff that work back here,' he said. 'It is not as if a lot of cash is changing hands.'" It isn't? Three hundred grand from Hughes alone? We don't know what Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson ended up paying but doesn't this sort of dwarf whatever charges you've heard about Tom DeLay? Doesn't it make DeLay look like a relative choirboy piker compared to what Dingy Harry did in a piece of legislation?
Then this little nugget:
(The Washington Times) reports that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi helped secure $3 million last year for a nonprofit organization, WestStart-CALSTART, whose president gave money to her political action committee. The organization also paid for the European trip of one of Pelosi's policy advisers. Republicans are suggesting that nothing distinguishes Pelosi's actions from those of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and other Republican members Pelosi has criticized.
The 'Hammer' DeLay, is pure as the driven snow compaired to Reid and Pelosi!
Don't let them get away with this hatchet job, see to it you notice everyone on your e-mail list with the truth about Harry and Nancy!
Keep this thread going on today's April 8, 2005 page.
Get the truth about Pelosi and Reid out for all to see - their politics are pure garbage!
GO rush!
reminder / flashback ping...
I am smelling something, but it is not coming from Tom DeLay.
bump
oh puhleaaaaaassse!!!
lets open this pandoras box!!
PUHLEASE!!!...LETS DO IT!
i mean campaign finance reform was gonna fix all of this evil bad currupting money!!
lets just air out the ol dirty laundry!!
i wanna see it...lets compaire questionable cash!!
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