Tag: tom daschle

I wish I was making this up, but I’m not.

Just now breaking on MSNBC that Tom Daschle has removed himself from running for HHS secretary.

James Pethokoukis is scared that Daschle means the end of conservatism: The GOP strategist had been joking about the upcoming presidential election and giving his humorous assessments of the candidates. Then he suddenly cut out the schtick and got scary serious. “Let me tell you something, if Democrats take the White House and pass a […]

The news right now is that Tom Daschle will head up the Department of Health and Human services and that he has accepted the position.

On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle asked Tom Daschle why the convention has been all about the Clintons: No Mike – the convention has NOT been about the Clinton. If the media would actually cover the convention they would realize it’s about the Democrats and about how wrong John McCain is for this nation. So what […]

The right-wing meme about Iraq and Bush has always been “we haven’t been attacked since 9/11”. When you try to use the same for Clinton, saying before 9/11, we weren’t attacked since the first WTC bombing, they quickly point to bombings of our embassies and of the Cole. A few months ago, we saw our […]

On the weekend that Bill Frist won the Southern Republicans straw poll to be the Presidential nominee in 2008, we find out that his predecessor is now talking about a run for the Oval Office in 08. Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, accusing the GOP of spreading a message of fear, says he is […]