Daschle criticized for backing dairy pact

Washington Times ^ | 9/10/01 | Dave Boyer

[kattracks]

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is taking heat in his home state of South Dakota over his support for extending dairy price supports in the Northeast.

Mr. Daschle, who has opposed the Northeast Dairy Compact because it creates unfair competition for South Dakota dairy farmers, nevertheless has indicated his willingness to extend at least temporarily the deal to benefit farmers in six Northeastern states.

[Aeronaut]

. "It definitely hurts the farmers in the Midwest," said Tom Brunner, a dairy farmer and Republican in Butte County, S.D. "I wish he would represent us for a change. It seems like Senator Daschle remembers us one year out of six."

Remember this in that sixth year. Throw the bum out!

[Vigilanteman]

Mr. Farmer was most likely one of the 38% who voted against Daschle. Daschle's strong suit, like McGovern, is that he is very good at retail politics and brining home pork. South Dakota is a small state and everyone has a grandmother or uncle or somebody that Daschle helped with constituent services.

What is needed is a well-known Pubbie like the state's lone congressman to take Daschle down by saying that he wants to hire Daschle to do the constituent services as senior member on his staff while he repesents the values of the people of South Dakota instead of the party.

The same strategy could work in the Northern Dakota as well. Too many conservatives make the mistake of thinking sheeple voters will identify with values rather than favors. Favors play a bigger role than idealogy, especially in small states.

[Vigilanteman]

You posted great news on another threat that Congressman Thune will take on the Daschle clone Tim Johnson. These people may finally be wising up like Utah did in 1976 and Wyoming did in 1978. Nothing would please me more than to have the Dakotas finally joining the rest of rural America in electing senators to represent their values instead of those of Massachusetts.

Do you know, even Massachusetts was the only state which Reagan managed to carry twice that Nixon couldn't carry once?

[Vigilanteman]

You posted great news on another threat that Congressman Thune will take on the Daschle clone Tim Johnson. These people may finally be wising up like Utah did in 1976 and Wyoming did in 1978. Nothing would please me more than to have the Dakotas finally joining the rest of rural America in electing senators to represent their values instead of those of Massachusetts.

Do you know, even Massachusetts was the only state which Reagan managed to carry twice that Nixon couldn't carry once?

[Coop]

I imagine Sen. Johnson is none too pleased to hear that his back-stabbing colleague is stirring up the masses. :-D

[Vigilanteman]

Sen. Johnson almost never crosses Daschle. Even when North Dakota's senators both voted to confirm Ashcroft, Johnson was Daschle's dog and voted against it. If he's capable of thinking for himself, he has yet to show it. However, in preparation for the next election, he might get his voting record in the 20% range like Kent Conrad or Byron Dorgan.

[Coop]

If Thune does indeed run in this race, as it appears he will, then I personally don't think it will matter what Mr. Johnson does between now and Nov 2002.

[TontoKowalski]

I've always thought that comparing Johnson or Daschle's voting record to Ted Kennedy's or Hillary's or some other horrid liberal would be a good tactic in SD.

The ad: "We may not have Hillary representing South Dakota in the Senate, but we might as well. Senator Johnson joined Senators Clinton and Kennedy in opposing the President's nominee for Attorney General on the basis of his religious faith. Tim Johnson has repeatedly voted for (insert some outrageous liberal cause opposed by his voters) and ..." You get the idea.

"Don't abandon South Dakota values to Hillary Clinton."

[LoneGOPinCT]

While I do have sympathy for the plight of New England dairy farmers, why the h*ll should they expect the government to provide them with an artificial minimum.

I receive a couple of northeastern farming mags and they are really making a push to show how these price controls are needed. They claim the higher land values, higher taxes, inability to compete with much larger agribusinesses in the mid-West, increased pressure to suburbanize the farmland, etc. leave them at a great disadvantage and the governmebt must step in to alow them to compete.

But, if anything, I would love to see the dairy pact whither and die just to f*** Jeffords. Revenge would be sweet!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I like the ad, keemo-sabe.

[Biblebelter]

This dairy compact issue makes for some strange bedfellows. Does anyone know where Harkin is on this issue?

[Southack]

"Among the Senate's most vocal opponents of dairy compacts are Sens. Herb Kohl and Russell D. Feingold, Wisconsin Democrats. Mr. Kohl has called the deal a "cartel," and Mr. Feingold said it "wildly distorts the marketplace by erecting artificial barriers."

More cracks in the Democratic coalition are appearing. Unions versus Greens over ANWR. Whites versus Blacks over vouchers for poor children. Patriots versus pacifists over national missile defense. And now, mid-West Democrats versus NorthEast Democrats over the Dairy Compact.

[freedomnews]

this is a the payoff to James Jeffords

[michaelt]

Those cracks just illustrate how screwed up the Democratics are. Even when some of them see particular problems in their party's policies, such as Kohl and Feingold opposing the dairy cartel, they don't make the connection to all the rest of the issues that on which they are just as wrong.

[The Great RJ]

The Republican Party in South Dakota is in part to blame for Daschle's continued presence in Washington. His last opponent, Ron Schmidt, was a political unknown who had never been elected to anything and who had no money or campaign staff. The Republicans so much as conceded the election to Daschle. Six years before it was the same thing.

The farmers voted their wallets--Daschle was a sure thing who had in the past brought home farm programs, campaigned in every county and appeared to truely care. They are just finding out too late that Daschle is just a Kennedy/Clinton clone.