Sen. Daschle is hardly the ogre Limbaugh's complaints suggest (DOUBLE BAG BARF)

Omaha World Herald/KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE INFORMATION SERVICES ^ | 6/09/02 | TIM GIAGO

[unbiasedtruth]

So you see, Tommy really is a good guy (sarcasm off)

[MeekOneGOP]

Tiny Tommy Da$$hole:
What did he obstruct?
And when did he obstruct it?
Free the Daschle Fifty
http://freedom.house.gov/library/economics/dasch50.asp

House Majority Leader Dick Armey today called upon Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to vote on 50 bills that have passed the House and are stalled in the Senate.

"The American people want action," said Armey. "They don't want political posturing. The Democrat-led Senate has a responsibility to vote on legislation. In fact, it's their job."

[MeekOneGOP]

[BARGE]

What nonesense;this"writer" takes himself too seriously.

[MeekOneGOP]

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[MeekOneGOP]

Little Tommy Daschle's
Skool Picture! !

[MeekOneGOP]

[uglybiker]

Tommy's too damn short to be an ogre.

[pt17]

Tommy's too damn short to be an ogre

Yes, he needs to change his image but keep the training wheels.

[freekitty]

I see another psuedo analyst is sounding off.

[rabidralph]

This is the comic strip that Russert confronted Daschle with about what the president knew. Of course, the artist can't let this Tommy bashing go unchecked without throwing in his obligatory dig at the President.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Senator Daschund is too puny to be an ogre.

He is also too "troubled" to be a Senator.

[rabidralph]

He knelt down in front of a badly damaged child seated in a wheelchair,

I think the reporter made up this part. If he knew Tommy as the rest of us know Tommy, he would know that Tommy wouldn't have to kneel.

[unbiasedtruth]

Good point! But who says one must have the height of an ogre to be an ogre?

I guess that according to this author, anyone who takes money from productive citizens (taxes) and gives it to unproductive citizens, is a nice guy.

[Iscool]

Limbaugh just can't seem to understand how a Democrat can be elected to the Senate from a state that is mostly Republican.

That answer seems simple enough to me...Obviously, the state is mostly Democrat...Rush, 1+3 doesn't equal 7...

[lsee]

I think "Troll" was the word some of us were searching for...sort of a junior-size ogre...the kind that lives beneath the bridge and demands the little goats gruff pay the toll before they can trot over and eat the green grass on the other side...sort've like real life!

Like certain other politicians, Tom does nothing without first analyzing the potential benefit to himself. If kneeling in front of a "damaged" child and exploiting the feelings of others might earn him a "compassionate" photo-op, he'll do it. He'll do it because he knows there are people like the writer of this article who are willing to be fooled by his act. And he knows he can always go wash his hands afterwards and forget the unfortunate necessity of actually touching those he believes are beneath his notice.

[Bommer]

Last Saturday, I met with Daschle at the home of "Louie Boy" and Melvina Winters on the Pine Ridge Reservation. They have turned their home into a shelter for Indian children, and over the last 20 years more than 4,000 Lakota kids have found a home and a family there. They call their shelter Wakanyejo Tisopaye O'tipi, or, as it is known on the reservation, "the Children's Home."

Daschle has made it a practice to visit "Louie Boy" and Melvina and, of course, all the children housed there, whenever he is anywhere near the reservation.

This ogre of a politician, at least in the eyes of Limbaugh, stooped down to pick up some of the little children. He knelt down in front of a badly damaged child seated in a wheelchair, and even though he knew the child did not understand him, he spoke softly to her.

When Daschle pulled up in front of the dilapidated modular home Louis and Melvina had cleaned up and repaired to serve as a shelter for the children, all the children greeted him and Linda with signs they had made thanking him for his help. Daschle took the time to take pictures with the elders and the children.

Just before he was whisked away, Daschle gave all the children hugs.

Her dream was to build a place where the children of the reservation could come to be safe and to have fun. She called her dream "Happy Town."

I went to school at Holy Rosary Indian Mission with "Louie Boy" Winters. I am very proud of what he has tried to do for the poor children of the reservation. They have helped save the lives and the futures of so many hurt, lost, homeless and frightened children.

Yes its all about the children. He is the Majority Leader of the US Senate, not the Majority Leader for "See how I can hug your children, it means I care. To hell with the rest of the country. As long as you can hug cripple children, what does it matter that he's an obstructionist.....none of this is mentioned and this is what Limbaugh attacks him on. Not on his ability to molest...I mean hug children.

Even Hitler kissed babys.

[SBeck]

Trust me, unless you are strong enough, you don't want to read anything from Reuben Bolling.