That's spelled Dipshit, not Daschle.

Oh, goody.
/puke

Barry must be looking for a certain smarminess in his appointees. Ugh.

"One of these things is not like the other... one of these things just doesn't belong..."

Lets See
Bush Administration
Clinton Administration
Bush Administration
Clinton Adminstration

Where does it end?

His own state didn't want his leadership. Now the nation is stuck with him.

The good thing is that we know none of these people have ever let their incompetence get in the way.

Is he a moderate? No, he's a Dashole.

Seems the more things CHANGE the more they stay the same!

re: #4 MrSilverDragon

"One of these things is not like the other... one of these things just doesn't belong..."

"Who are the people in your neighborhood?"

HillaryCare without the tits. Greeeeeat.

Universal Healthcare!

No deficit is too large...

Tom Daschle: The Hillary of the Oughties.

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

Like Plan 9 from Outer Space, that was so bad it's good.

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

Daschle should be considered for Car Czar instead. He can assemble a team of advisors to be known as the Dasch Board.

Or, just in time for the holidays, name him the National Snow Removal Czar. Then he can be Daschle through the snow.

What happened to that empty promise his administration would be free of lobbyists?

Puff Daschle and Mrs. Pufff and two of the biggest lobbyists in DC.

Oh, it was all BS?

re: #5 bsjracing

Lets See
Bush Administration
Clinton Administration
Bush Administration
Clinton Adminstration

Where does it end?

Gingrich '12?

(Just one idea)

Everyone seems to forget...

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I didn't write that. It has been known for years.

The Dasch0le returns. Oh joy... I'd hoped that we saw the last of that loser.

HOPE 'N CHANGE 'N STUFF...

re: #17 buzzsawmonkey

Are these the "Oughties" because we still haven't passed 2010, or because the new Nanny State crowd are going to force us to do everything they think we ought to do?

Yes.

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

Daschle should be considered for Car Czar instead. He can assemble a team of advisors to be known as the Dasch Board.

Then the whiners at the UAW will have another sympathetic ear in the White HouseYour text to link...

Where's the ''change?"

re: #23 fclass308

Sorry...first time linking.

I saw him on the press conference yesterday. I HOPE he CHANGES those glasses he was wearing.....hideous. Although the color was probably very fitting. Red.

"Baby you won't buy our cars"

Bleep bleep'm bleep bleep, yeah
Asked a union where they wanted to be
They said lobbying in DC
I wanna be pullin, a fat pension in
But you can have my votes in return
Baby you can buy my debt
Yes we know our cars are s---
Harry you can be our pet
And we will elect you

I told the fed that my prospects were good
And they said baby it's understood
Making peanuts is all very fine
Protectionism helps our bottom line
Baby you can bail me out
The taxpayers are going to shout
The CEOs are corrupt louts
And they will protect you

Bleep bleep'm bleep bleep yeah
Baby you wont’ buy our cars (you won’t buy our cars)
Yes, I'm gonna lobby hard (I wanna lobby hard)
So if you don’t go buy our cars
Then baby we’ll tax you (bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep yeah)

I told the legislature help me today
And they said baby I got something to say
You can’t sell cars and it's breaking my heart
But you’ve got union votes and that's a start
Baby they won’t buy your cars
Detroit’s getting hit real hard
So reach into the cookie jar
And we’ll quid pro quo you
Bleep bleep'm bleep bleep yeah
Bleep bleep'm bleep bleep yeah
Bleep bleep'm bleep bleep yeah
Bleep bleep'm bleep bleep yeah

/ok I guessed the wrong topic... I'll do a health care one next time

Wonder what spot he is saving up for his good buddy John Kerry? ...

re: #24 mean Gene

Where's the ''change?"

It won't be in our pockets much longer, that's for sure.

Is the US going to become like Canada? Well, Obama is America's Trudeau and he is even more radical than Canadian radical PM back in 1970s and 80s

re: #28 JacksonTn

I'd bet he has something special waiting for John Kerry. Ambasador to Frogistan, Official Sodomizer of the Taxpayer, head of the lunch money racket at your local elementary school, or something like that. Maybe throw in a trip to Cambodia while he's at it.

I was so hoping we'd heard the last from Tom Daschle when he was defeated in 04. Big bummer.

But I thought this was announced a while ago. Just speculation up to now?

Healthcare comes back (to the tune of Baby Got Back)

By Sir-tax-a-lot

I like big government and I can not lie
You other voters can't deny
That when a bill comes in with prospect for waste
And bureaucratic taste
We get goin, wanna push it through
'Cause big brother knows what’s good for you
Deep in the pockets your wearing
the tax fraud odds are glaring
Oh baby, legislate you
And nationalize health care
Gingrich tried to warn us
And threw the Clinton plan under the bus
Ooh, magically the fix is in
You say you wanna get a transplant?
Well, get in line gus
'Cause you ain't on the Senate health plan
I've seen them lobbyin'
To hell with capitalism'
She's back, jack,
Got it goin' in Obama’s cabinet
I'm tired of conservatives
Sayin' free markets got to live
Take the average taxpayer and ask him that
We like all our taxes flat
So, Lawyers! (Yeah!) Lawyers! (Yeah!)
Has tom Dashle got your butt? (Hell yeah!)
Tell 'em to make it! (Make it!) Take it! (Take it!)
Make that healthcare global!
Healthcare comes back!

re: #25 fclass308

Sorry...first time linking.

Your link worked just fine!

the O has never seemed more like a puppet.

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

Daschle should be considered for Car Czar instead. He can assemble a team of advisors to be known as the Dasch Board.

Now you are back in form. Good to see you've recovered from last night.

He's be bad news to all of us who are pro-life. Look for all the Catholic hospitals to be sold.

Get ready to file those lawsuits to prevent government health care folks.

Speaking as a person who works for Medi-Cal, Government Health care is as bad for your as Government Cheese.

Was there EVER a bigger loser than ol Tommie boy?

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Dachle's (D-S.D.) reported selection as secretary of health and human services could violate one of the pledges set out by President-elect Barack Obama's transition team.

Daschle's work as a public policy advisor in the Washington, DC office of law firm Alston & Bird, "appears to flatly contradict" an ethics pledge that prohibits political appointees in Obama's new administration from working on regulations and policy that could affect their previous employers of the past two years.

Among other issues, Daschle advises Alston & Bird's clients on healthcare–an area of policy that can fall under the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) purview–according to the law firm's website. Daschle joined the firm in May 2008, according to Alston & Bird's site.

re: #38 acwgusa

Get ready to file those lawsuits to prevent government health care folks.

Speaking as a person who works for Medi-Cal, Government Health care is as bad for your as Government Cheese.

I hear they are going to have cosy fireside chats with people to get input on health care.

I have simple alternative. Revoke all health care for congress and tell them to go out and get their own privately. Nothing beats learning on the job.

Wow so it really is Clinton Administration III.

We are so screwed.

Our government is really a decent system. It's just too bad that many have chosen to elect the worst possible collection of idiots and lefties to run it.

All kept promises (and screw-ups) made by government come at your expense.

All hope is Dasche'd. Abandon hopenchange, all ye who enter here!

Ex-Senator Hopenchange!

Universal health care is essentially a middle class issue: the rich have the money for private care, and the poor get medicaid. It's the people in the middle who get screwed.

I support major health care reform, including a universal health care plan. I think it is unnecessarily cruel to tie health insurance coverage to employment status. Imagine working hard all your life only to get laid off at middle age, leading to the double whammy of a loss of income and quality coverage for yourself and your family. I know this happens to folks all the time.

P.S.
Even the Republicans under Nixon wanted to pass a universal health care bill.

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

One of the most insightful lines ever written.

I would so much love to put on the boxing gloves and step into the ring with him. I would give up a kidney for the pleasure.