Another Problem for Tom Daschle

So what is new the media has decided to flex it's muscles because unlike Clinton Obama won't cave on cue. Perhaps if he won't abandon his people maybe he won't abandon the people like the GOP.

The sharks sure are circling.

Give me a break now its a heinous act to pass on a resume, suggest that someone you've worked with is a good pick and ask to have them considered. Jeez, KT you know as much as anybody that the odds of getting an interview for even an entry level political position in Washington without someone tagging your resume and personally shepherding it to the making the decision on who to call back is slim to none.
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This would be a story if Daschle tried to use his influence to coerce the president like it you want me you have to take my guy -- oh no that was the Republican Gregg, if you want me the Democratic governor has pick a Republican to replace me.

PNNO -- of course they are. Obama had the nerve to not throw his people under the bus on cue because the media says so. So now they are going to make him pay because ass we all know that is their most cherished perk. And for God sake, its in the same week when their tactics failed to get Speedo to turn on Phelps.
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build them up to knock them down is the media way and its not working. So along with bureau closings they are losing this power too. Obama better watch out.

Obama may have to add a real liberal to his cabinet soon, just to find someone who doesn't have problems with the Law.

No but what difference does that make, he tried to get a friend consideration for a job in the administration big whup. He didn't black mail them. and if you're honest you would admit that this is a who you know industry period.

I wish Daschle would do the right thing and fall on his sword. At least the Obama folks did not hire the guy he was pushing.

The media has decided that they are going to nitpick this administration to death. This isn't about Daschle, this is about the media flexing its collective muscle. Ever since Watergate, the press has had a hard-on for taking people down. Power is addictive and the media is not immune. If you are going to take politicians to task for their addiction to power you ought to have the guts to look in the mirror.

Who are the nominees left to be confirmed? Do they have anything in common?

So again his standard is perfection. so far in the hundreds of positions he's filled you have two cases that are imperfect so that must mean that he didn't mean what he says even though if you want competent leadership you must have experience and if you have any experience you can't have a clean slate. don't you think this is a bit much that less than two-weeks into this thing the media has declared that Obama has abandoned his pledges. so fat thisis the most ethical administration that we have seen in many years and yet Richard Cohen, who by the way should be completely ashamed of himself, is comparing Obama to the Bush adminstration. Give me a break.

@Dee: No this is about Daschle. I hope that Obama drops him. Is Daschle uniquely qualified? Hardly.

I'm being honest and fair when I say that if I were Daschle in this fact situation and woke up today to the NYT editorial, I'd submit my resignation by noon. I'm already a millionaire with a long record of achievement and I wouldn't want to be the reason this new administration loses altitude right after takeoff. If Daschle doesn't resign, I think even less of him than I do now. Grow a pair, Tom.

Three's a charm.
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Let us please stop wasting time defending this guy. It's not worth the moral capital.
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Plus this:
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/01/daschle/index.html

If this dude were a Repug, we'd be having fits about him. Except that we'd be so exhausted from all the other fits we were having that these particular fits would be pretty much imperceptible.
Find somebody better.

Also, isn't this *exactly* the type of situation Obama didn't want? I mean Daschle has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the health care industry. I don't want him anywhere near health care legislation.

bmorex -- with all due respect let me just say that my thought process is probably a bit less linear than yours. Having Daschle resign is the purpose of the editorial in the first place.
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I could care less about Daschle personally, but this is a little like a "we will not negotiate with terrorist moment." Ever since Kimba Woods, the press has had absolute power to determine some one's fate. Clinton caved at the first sign of objection from the media and through his loyal friends under the bus faster than a pitch by Roger Clemens on steroids or not (Clemens is a pitcher right)?
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The media has decided to make Obama pay for not bowing to their wishes. Just like they wouldn't let the first half of the Rev. Wright story die because he wouldn't jettison a friend.
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In a town where the only loyalty to be found is with the dog you guy, this is change in Washington. Obviously, this is not the kind of change the media likes. Of course, loyalty was perfectly fine as long as it was Bush being loyal to the incompetent horde who gave us Katrina, Iraq, Abu Grahb etc.
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But oh no the last straw he asked his soon to be boss to consider a friend for a position. I wish I has a way to get p[ass the 350 thousand applicants for consideration.

Karen, Karen, Karen...
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Don't you realize that ObamaChrist has the power to absolve all sins of those who drink the Kool-Aid? Indeed, not only are ones transgressions deemed irrelevant at the moment of annointing by Obama, all qualifications are mystically transformed to "unique" status at the same time.
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K Tizzle says
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But, Dee, that is precisely what Obama said he would fix about Washington.

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Here is what I don't understand about why this is supposed to hurt Daschle's chances. I don't know of a situations where anybody said he or anybody else couldn't push one of their friends/cronies/benefactors for a job. Thats not something that just Washington does, thats something that EVERYBODY does. K Tizzle are you really going to try to tell me you have never advocated for a friend/relative/co worker to get a job somewhere else? I for one know I have. To my understanding what President Obama said he would change was people GETTING the job where they were obviously not qualified and only got it because of who they are or who they know. Maybe I am missing something here but this doesn't seem like a story. Now you can't say that I am defending him blindly either because I have said in the other thread that I have reservations about the guy and that the tax issue is a problem. I just don't think this particular story is.
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And K Tizzle if you think it is perhaps you could expound a little more fully on why this looks bad.

plukasiak
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You know half the time I think you have some good ideas and then the other times I am pretty sure you are just an ass hole. I know thats harsh for 9 in the morning but that ObamaChrist sh*t is played. You have shown at times that you know how to have an intelligent conversation so its not that you don't know any better. If you want to criticize President Obama feel free. If you want to criticize people who support him, have at it. But you devalue everything else you say when you resort to wingnut troll type hyperbole.

This doesn't really sound like anything, to me. People know people, get their resumes passed around. This is just sharks circling at the blood in the water.
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Paul Dirks' link is the one that actually matters. Therefore, the media will never, ever talk about it.