[Zorobabel]

Well we know what the half-life of this story is gonna be. About one day, and then it will go away.

[mlocher]

as much as i would like to pin 911 on a daschle, i don't think we can on this one.

HOWEVER, it really pisses me off the way liberal democrats pass these feel good laws and regulations and then do not enforce them. a law without enforcement is not a law -- and that is a lesson the democrats fail to heed. too often daschle(s) and other democrats take the politically expedient approach to solving problems.

[Slyfox]

"They acted as if they didn't care," Friend told USA Today.

When all is said and done, this is truly the Democratic party's legacy.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

She is a lobbyist? And they are probably funding the DNC still after buying off Gore years ago. The corruption never ends, does it?

[MeekOneGOP]

They make a lovely couple, don't they?:

Daschle: Patience for Arafat Thin
A blunder by Byrd?

Pigs of a feather?????

[LoneGOPinCT]

So it would seem that Mrs. Dasch-hole is one as well. I was hoping for more of a smoking gun than this but every little bit counts.

[Salvation]

With Mrs. Daschle serving, first as Deputy FAA Administrator and then as Acting FAA Administrator from 1993 to 1997, the agency received hundreds of complaints throughout the 1990's about passengers who had become unruly, assaulted flight crews and threatened fellow passengers while in flight.

My question is:
Will this be reported on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN?

[Diddle E. Squat]

I'm glad someone got the headline correct.

[RJL]

A failure to investigate the claims of hundreds of victims and witnesses to violent midair altercations that drew airport police once the plane had landed.

A decision to go easy on even the most dangerous offenders - including some who succeeded in breaking into the cockpit in mid-flight armed with knives - sending warning letters and leveling fines in lieu of any serious enforcement. (The percentage of those fined actually dropped after Daschle's "zero tolerance" pledge.)

And the destruction of FAA case files on in-flight violence that now makes it impossible to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of the midair mayhem in the years before the 9/11 attacks.

Obviously the perps here were all good liberal Democrats.

[afraidfortherepublic]

And the destruction of FAA case files on in-flight violence that now makes it impossible to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of the midair mayhem in the years before the 9/11 attacks.

Why and when were they destroyed?

[b4its2late]

Chuckie Schumers (unfortunately, our senior Senator in NY) wife is the head of some transportation job in NYC too. Steve Malzberg mentioned it on the Malzberg & Bey show yesterday when the news was being read at 6:00.

What's up with that?

[Republic of Texas]

" "They acted as if they didn't care," Friend told USA Today. "

Ummmm, see, they didn't care. Keep that between us though.

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[backhoe]

Well, you can tell a lot of people with these:

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[Thumper1960]

Senate Demoncrats won't confirm Eugene Scalia as a Bush appointee because they claim "it's a payback to the SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia for giving Bush the presidency". How did Dass-hole's betrothed bimbo get a Clinton job?

Hypocrits.

[ChaseR]

"Linda Hall Daschle, wife of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, was cited in a report on Wednesday for failing to enforce a "zero tolerance" policy she announced in 1996 against violent airline passengers"

bttt

[Doe Eyes]

Had the FAA actually enforced their "zero tolerance" policy against air rage, I have no doubt Mohammed Atta would not have dared to highjack and crash that airplane into the World Trade Center.

[Dahoser]

Can't you just hear Daschle defend his wife by saying, "I don't think it's helpful to cast blame around," and then return to blaming W for the recession?