Tom Daschle
St. Thomas the Martyr?
From the article by the New Republic, you’d have thought that we should be worshiping imagery of Tom Daschle as he hung from the cross, as former Senate staffers tried to sooth the wounds he suffered at the hands of Republicans and the Media:
Tom Daschle is a lucky guy. Not so long ago, he appeared [...]
Obama: Do as I say, not as I do
From my e-mail box, Steve Hildebrand’s candidate certainly looks like he’s using Tom Daschle tactics as he says one thing on the campaign trail, but what he does is an entirely different thing altogether:
Obama Endorses DCCC’s Lobbyist Loophole
Obama Pens Fundraising Plea for Dem Campaign Committee even as they shake down Washington lobbyists before [...]
Sally Jesse Daschle?
From the examiner.com in Minneapolis:
Former Sen. Tom Daschle’s Sally Jessy Raphael-esque red-rimmed glasses seem to be catching on: At a National Academy of Public Administration event held at the Brookings Institution. On Monday, host Jenna Dorn, president of the National Academy of Public Administration, got into the act by sporting her own fiery [...]
Tom Daschle didn’t fare well Tuesday, according to the Washington Post
From the Washington Post:
The Last Primaries: Winners and Losers
LOSERS
Tom Daschle: The former senator from South Dakota wasn’t able to deliver his home state for Obama — a loss that prevented the Illinois senator from scoring a two-state sweep that would have made a nice, tidy ending to the nomination fight. It doesn’t matter one [...]
Daschle - SD a tossup.
From Meet the Press, Tom Daschle today said admitted that he didn’t know what way the state would go:
MR. RUSSERT: Will Barack Obama win South Dakota?
SEN. DASCHLE: It’s going to be close, going to be very competitive. The Clintons have campaigned well there.
MR. RUSSERT: Well, you’re on television with TV ads.
SEN. DASCHLE: Well, that’s no [...]
Awww, those guys aren’t so tough.
Dusty Johnson has some words of wisdom for those of us who are taking on incumbents this election:
The word “unbeatable” should be retired, he said.
Bill Janklow, Joe Foss, George McGovern, Tom Daschle and John Thune have been on the losing end of elections, Dusty Johnson said during the Beadle County Lincoln Day Dinner this past [...]
Sibbyonline.com up to $500
The bidding war on Sibbyonline.com continues. We’re sitting at a $500 Bid - with, 1/2 ($250) to be donated to Childrens Care Hospital & School. Of course, the other half will go to the Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education in the name of one “Mr. Steve Sibson” of Mitchell, SD.
The auction has a little [...]
Daschle helping to recruit dems for the legislature.
The Rapid City Journal/Associated Press is reporting that Senator Tom Daschle is helping to recruit Dems for the state legislative races as they try to make a push to pick up seats. The former Senator also commented on Tim Johnson, and the chances of a return engagement against US Senator John Thune:
The South Dakota Democratic [...]
Tim Johnson renounces his Super (delegate) Powers.
Being in the Republican Party, I’m a bad person to ask about the whole Democratic Super Delegate thing. In the GOP, we have a few who are other than delegates for the elected presidential slate, but it’s simply by virtue of their office.
In the whole scheme of things, I’m not sure what gives them Democratic [...]
Blog-volution in South Dakota
A friend who was trying to get to those websites that continuously touch on SD issues had asked for my recommendation as to which blogs were worth reading for their coverage of South Dakota issues. I provided those recommendations. But I also pointed out something I’ve noticed in the past 6 months - that South [...]
I couldn’t have written it better myself. Stan Adelstein makes my case for me.
SouthDakotaMac was teasing me a bit because I’d missed this article in this morning’s Argus Leader on Stan Adelstein. (I do work, you know).
If you recall, Sten tends to get beaten about the head and shoulders a bit by myself and other Republicans because he wants to run as a Republican legislative candidate at the [...]
It’s too late to use on the Turkey, but here’s your thermometer of the hot November topics
Because no one asked for it, here’s your thermometer of the hot political topics so far for November!
1. Dan and Ted’s Excellent Ethics Adventure. Yes, it’s an adventure, but they’re not the ones takings it. We are! Based on the series of actions by the legislature in the Dan Sutton Matter and the recent Klaudt [...]
Now here’s a gift to SDSU we can crow about
Ironically, after a few senators failed at their mission to sneak a taxpayer funded school for Tom Daschle at SDSU into the budget, Governor Rounds and Avera Health are announcing a major gift today to set up an expansion to health science and research on the campus.
And gosh - look at this. Amazingly, it looks [...]
Tom Daschle loses again. This time, via veto.
President Bush today vetoed the spending measure which had around 1 BILLION dollars of earmarked projects. Including the earmarks for the Tom Daschle Center:
President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressional Democrats.
The measure Bush vetoed included a $1 million earmark for the Thomas Daschle Center for Public [...]
That’s kind of ironic for the Democrats. Daschle center earmark decoupled from Spending bill by their own measure. (UPDATED)
Nationally syndicated columnist Robert Novak goes through the controversial additions to the Veterans spending measure; How they got there, the reasons why, and the process by which they were removed:
The Democratic scheme to present President George W. Bush with a bill that he could not veto seemed a clever strategy, but it was based [...]
Earmarks, and Daschle and State (Oh My!)
(In case you’re noticing I’m going into some unnecessary detail, this is a piece I got up early this AM to do for my page at KELO I’ve been ignoring over the past week or so. So forgive me if I state a couple of obvious things that have been mentioned here before.)
In case you’ve [...]
Associated Press: Daschle doesn’t mind… (no kidding)
The Associated Press is reporting tonight that Tom Daschle doesn’t mind that his Democratic colleagues put in an earmark for what would be South Dakota’s largest vanity project. Despite the fact SDSU didn’t ask for it:
Despite criticism from Republicans, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said he doesn’t object to $1 million earmark naming a [...]
Danger! Atomic Daschle Bomb about to be dropped on SDSU
The Argus Leader is reporting today over the howls of protest regarding an atomic earmark that was dropped into the federal appropriations bill to memorialize Tom Daschle:
A massive federal appropriations bill that includes a $1 million earmark to create a center for former Sen. Tom Daschle is drawing heavy fire in Washington, D.C. today.
The earmark [...]
Powerline Blog pokes at the A.L. for their coverage (or lack thereof) of Daschle V. Thune
From Powerline:
Jon Lauck is the author of the new book on the historic 2004 Senate race in which the indomitable Jon Thune unseated then-incumbent Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. In the book Lauck brings his professional training to bear. He is a lawyer and historian who currently serves as senior adviser to Senator Thune. The [...]
Nobody does it better as Lauck does it again. Go see how he does it at the Rapid City Weekly.
Jon Lauck is getting so much press that he must be beating the hot blonde book groupies off with a stick. Tonight, his book tour is reviewed by the Rapid City Weekly News:
Jon Lauck is a trained historian — but he helped make history two years ago.
Lauck worked on the 2004 Senate John Thune campaign [...]
