Daschle satisfied with war progress

[DuctapeFatwa]

Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., on Thursday praised the Bush administration's war and nation-building work in Iraq and said he has no serious concerns about the lack of weapons of mass destruction.

Daschle told state chamber of commerce representatives meeting in the South Dakota capital that he is satisfied with the way things are going in Iraq.

"I give the effort overall real credit," Daschle said..

Daschle took a different tone when he and other congressional leaders met with Bush in late January to discuss the intelligence snafu. "I think it is critical that we follow up and find out what went wrong," the New York Times quoted him as saying just before the meeting.




http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/02/20/news/local/news05.prt

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Progressives are doomed.

:puke:

[cornermouse]

2. I try to think of something positive when I see

Daschle, but I just can't. He's slime.

[HootieMcBoob]

3. Good God

It's one step forward and 10 steps back with this guy.
:puke:

[Skittles]

4. what a f***ing asshole

in what way does this spineless jerk represent Democrats ?????

[Tesha]

14. In the same way so many other Democrats (including many Senators) do. (NT)

[MGKrebs]

5. When's the other shoe going to drop, Tom?

You do have another shoe, don't you?

[htuttle]

9. Are you referring to...

...'Shoeless' Tom Daschle?

[seabeyond]

34. that would be when he says

the economy is booming all cause of bush's tax cuts, lol

[Judi Lynn]

6. I'm not too sure how I would behave

if I became convinced _Bush's right-wingers had sent me a death threat.

He used to be a WONDERFUL Senator before he was anthraxed, as i saw him. I think he's been terrorized. Of course they would have left the message everyone he cared for was included in the threat.

Maybe he'll pull out of this nose-dive. We can hope.

[jamesinca]

35. In the case of the threat there were two paths

The first was to suck up to the republicans and be at their beckon call.

The second was to stand up to it and make sure the thugs get run out of office so as not to put up with this behavior in the future.


The second was the harder to do because it was the correct thing to do.
If he would stand up to this behavior and speak truth to power it would make it easier to be re-elected because his state would become disgusted with he Republican party. Once again that has the hard and correct thing to do.

"There is one lesson I have learned that I hold above all others from my experience as a father, teacher, community organizer, and a U.S. senator: We should never separate the lives we live from the words we speak. To me, the most important goal is to live a life consistent with the values I hold dear and to act on what I believe in."

Sen. Paul Wellstone " The conscience of a liberal"

[kysrsoze]

7. Daschle is a big pussy!

I would love to know what they have on him.

[Tesha]

15. Daschle is elected from a clearly-Republican state.

He *CAN'T* take any actual stands for Democrats or he would lose
his seat. As a result, he's a constant disgrace and embarrasment
as the Democratic leader in the Senate.

[pinto]

17. I support compromise, much to the dismay of some, but there is a limit.

[pinto]

18. ps, yeah, he's an embarassment. do you remember how he came to

get elected as leader or the other possibilities at the time? I don't....

[Tesha]

22. Sorry, no. Perhaps someone else does? (NT)

[Devil Dog Dem]

25. "He *CAN'T* take any actual stands for Democrats"

THen you would agree with me that he should step down as the Senate Dem "Leader"?

[Adams Wulff]

8. Absolutely Worthless.

The Democratic "leadership" in the House and the Senate is in dire need of a complete overhaul.
Did Daschle really think this was going to help?

[MarkTwain]

10. Are There Words...

... to describe the consummate fool which is this man? Does anyone wonder why an idiot like DimSon along with his cabal are able to prevail when this is the quality of the opposition ?

Tom. Go directly to Hell. Do not pass Go - do not collect your two hundred dollars. Except maybe from your fat-cat lobbyist wife who is in, up to her skirts, the trash which is K Street.

[Tesha]

16. "Traitor" routinely comes to my mind. "Coward" as well.

We have Fred Rogers as our Senate party leader.

[pinto]

11. any Democratic opposition in his re-election race? I'd like to contribute.

[NWHarkness]

12. Quisling

If there was any doubt that he needs to be removed from his leadership position, there is no more.

[demgrrrll]

13. If he is afraid then he needs to step down as the leader because he

cannot be effective. These particular times call for someone who is as near fearless as is humanly possible without being nuts...
That being said I have read some fairly scathing comments by Mr.
Daschle, particularly regarding Bush's panel choices for the Iraq intelligence issue. Problem is that those comments get very little
play, whereas milk toast comments like these get wide coverage.

[waywest]

19. He's been neutralized

Maybe heard Mr. N. Thracks was "gonna pay him another visit."

[indepat]

21. With a capital Q!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

20. OMG... take our leader away from us... please!

Tom, just go over to the other side and be done with it. And take that other fucking DINO with you... Zell.
Why not?
They already have a majority, what's a few more?

At least they could be honest then.

[Kinkistyle]

23. With friends like these...

...who needs enemies? :eyes:

[peterh]

24. ****shaking head in disbelief****

No concerns about being lied to about wmd….
No problems with nation-building and the billions involved while our country is going to hell-in-a-handbasket….
Giving praise to an illegal war and warmonger….

WTF Daschle….why don’t you just tell your constituents to vote for the friggin twit in November….

[mac2]

26. Yes...Iraq is a success for take over of the World Union..

government by Neo Cons and for profit thugs. Care about the 10,000 soldiers injured Tom?

[saigon68]

27. Tom likes cashing his Govt paycheck every 2 weeks

He is a pig---- swilling at the public trough

His snout dips deeply in the "Public Trough"

[Kitsune]

28. TOM: YOU. ARE. NOT. HELPING!

ARRRGH, every time we start getting traction, some Dem has to open his mouth and lay one of these on us. >_< STAY ON MESSAGE!

ADJGBFDJKFJGDJASKSDFHSDGakgfasdgfjasdgfgsd

...

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[whathappened]

29. please lord

come down and slap this fool along side the head and show him what his job is suppose to be

[flaminbats]

30. My prediction, a new Minority Leader in 2005.

If Democrats do not win back the Senate in 2004, Daschle shall be replaced as the Democratic Leader.

[PassingFair]

31. This is the Democratic Party

And howl all you want. If Howard Dean had not come out swinging at Bushco, Kerry would have been at Daschle's shoulder, nodding yes and chanting AMEN! Even if we win, we'll have 4 more years of the rape of the common people by corporate psycopaths.

[Voltaire99]

32. Precisely what we all fear

Too true r.e. Dean: the doctor reacquainted the party, however briefly, with its spine.

[pippin]

33. Daschle and Kerry are members of the same club

Democrats have been sold down the river. Howard Dean for a brief moment in history remindeed Democrats what being a progressive means. Sorry, but the DNP has completely lost its moral compass. Yes, with Kerry as president we get rid of the Bush nightmare this country has had to face but it will be the same old same old: lip service to democratic principles but big business all the way.

[fujiyama]

36. I think it's important...

to remember he's from an extremely conservative state so I understand his Bush ass kissing. I also think it's important to remember we have a big tent, so we inevitably democratic senators from the south and rural states such as SD will be somewhat conservative.

That said, he's proven himself to be an absolutely ineffective and cowardly senator, completely unfit for any leaderhship position within the party.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

37. Daschle needs to be thrown out with the NeoCon bathwater.

[teryang]

38. Creating an impotent legislature

...has been the regime objective from day one. It took a little longer than the initial plan to imprison them in a basement somewhere but they've succeeded with the payoffs, anthrax attacks and plane crash. We are now in a very dire situation when the regime oppostion has no respect for its leaders in the legislature. But we've all known this for quite a while now.

The next election will determine whether we are even a semblance of a free people or just a banana republic run by hoodlums.

[diamond14]

39. US borrowing $$$ from China,Japan,S.Korea,Taiwan TO FUNCTION !

WOW !! bush* is really crazy...this is madness...
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"United States is now borrowing from China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to function."

"We're hemorrhaging at a rate unlike anything in the nation's history," Daschle said. "We are going to have a mess for our children and grandchildren that ought to embarrass us."