Daschle withdraws: DLTDHYOTWO!
Tom The Dodger Daschle withdraws his HHS nomination. President Obama accepts the withdrawal “with sadness and regret.” Regret that Daschle’s serial evasions caught up with him. Sadness that he didn’t get the Geithner treatment. DLTDHYOTWO!
Obama said Tuesday he accepted the withdrawal “with sadness and regret.”
Daschle has been battling for his nomination since it was disclosed he failed to pay more than $120,000 in taxes.
He said he’s withdrawing because he’s not a leader who has the full faith of Congress and will be a distraction.
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I can here BHO Comment now.
“Dam, the republican’s are right,We are a bunch of crooks”
If we appoint enough of these guys it will help pay of the national debt. At that I think that Tom’s excuse was a lot more believable than the new SecTres.
Why is it Conservatives gave Bush all the benefit of the doubt when he lied about WMD and took us into a war we can’t win, but when a hardworking man of the people makes a simple mistake they jump all over him?
He knows that. He’s just a bit shocked he’s getting called on it so quickly. You should have seen the glare he gave reporters who asked him about the tax problems after the Gregg announcement.
Why is it Conservatives gave Bush all the benefit of the doubt when he lied about WMD and took us into a war we can’t win, but when a hardworking man of the people makes a simple mistake they jump all over him?
Don’t you people ever give up? Every country in the world believed that they had (or were about to have) nuclear weapons. You can be wrong without telling a lie. However, it is difficult to pass this off as a simple mistake.
On January 31st, 2009 at 8:52 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
And now I will never forget how happy I was that Tom Daschle was forced to withdraw from this nomination.
Thank you, Jesus!
Part of the issue here is the Obama administration’s Culture of Corruption. Rotten from the head down. Whose name is on the deed of the “Obama” residence in Chicago? Where is that Original birth certificate (not the COLB forgery) showing where Obama was born?
IT’S A CIRCUS: DASCHLE OUT-Drudge Report
And Miss Hillary plays the bearded lady
Ever get the impression that President Obama is so used to Chicago Ward Politics that he can’t even see these speed bumps as a problem?
These are weak attempts to hijack this thread. Please try again. Maybe something about ex-Gov. Blagovich (D) would make a great cabinet member.
That was sarcasm.
Wasn’t it?
Yes.
I thought I’d try the liberal mindset for a few posts and see what happens.
Apparently all my other, real, posts aren’t noteworthy enough for people to remember. Not even the earlier ones
AND
all conservative talk radio and blogs like our Michelle’s.
I just checked out the huffpo comments, only to find that I was spot on with my parody.
figures.
Very convincing and dangerous as well. Does your head hurt?
On February 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm, taylork said:
That was sarcasm.
Wasn’t it?
Yes.
I thought I’d try the liberal mindset for a few posts and see what happens.
Apparently all my other, real, posts aren’t noteworthy enough for people to remember. Not even the earlier ones
I”m ignored 95% of the time and for very good reasons. I just keep throwing things out there hoping they will spark an idea in someone else.
On February 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm, taylork said:
That was sarcasm.
Wasn’t it?
Yes.
I thought I’d try the liberal mindset for a few posts and see what happens.
Apparently all my other, real, posts aren’t noteworthy enough for people to remember. Not even the earlier ones
If I lived on these threads I might have spotted the sarcasm. But since I only look in on occasion I have a tendency to take things at face value. If nobody will respond to your posts this is a poor way of fixing it.
I couldn’t find the comment, but an earlier poster in one of these threads wondered when the BHO spokespeople would claim that the problem with all the tax cheats in his cabinet were the result of his ultra-high standards. Well, here it is:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9649J682&show_article=1
President Barack Obama’s spokesman is defending the administration’s ethical standards.
Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday, “The bar that we set is the highest that any administration in the country has ever set.”
He also said those experts recognized that Obama would need to make exceptions to his pledge to run an administration free of former lobbyists.
An exeption to a pledge. That phrase has legs.
He then added. “What the problem? I mean seriously, it’s not like Daschle ever associated with a terrorist, had a several hundred million dollar project end in total failure, or attended a racist church. He forget to pay his taxes, he didn’t engage in any activity that would make you question his judgment as a leader.”
The sad thing is, many people will buy that spin.
GEES!
Horrible as it is, Obama wouldn’t get through the confirmation, either. He has too much baggage and trouble in his past. Good thing he’s just the President.
I want to see the blooper video of them failing to clear that bar.
He then added. “What the problem”. It’s not as if he killed his mother or raped the Pope. What do you want, perfection.
Why is it that wealthy Democrats who are having difficulty paying their taxes at today’s rate are on record calling for higher taxes?
If they don’t want to pay their fair share now, why would they want to pay even higher taxes? Were they just planning not to pay them? Is it just Republicans who should pay taxes? I would like a Democrat to explain this.
FamilyMan said: I”m ignored 95% of the time and for very good reasons. I just keep throwing things out there hoping they will spark an idea in someone else.
FM: Keep crank’n it out man – you’re one of my favorites on this blog/tgr
Followed by “I myself have strangled three prostitutes in the last week. And one of them was an Alibno! But pobody’s nerfect, we all have to except the fact that people are going to make mistakes, and move on. I mean just look at Ted Kennedy.”
If Obambi sets ANY standard it would represent a relatively “high bar” for the most ethically challenged party in the history of America.
If it weren’t for doublestandards the leftists would have no standards at all.
Don’t give up, Family Man….some of us are just scared of you. That’s why you’re my nominee for Secretary of Defense. We need more strength, not love and understanding. They DO want to kill us, afterall.
You’ve sparked in me an aversion to NATURAL LAW!!!!
I kid, FamilyMan. I like your posts too.
Is Obama that dumb that he doesn’t even bother to ask a couple simple questions before he announces one of his appointments? All he has to do is ask if there is anything in the person’s past that would come out and embarrass him/her…like tax fraud, illegal nannies, non-payment of employee taxes, etc. How hard can that be? Why is he waiting until the announcement and then find out? This guy is the POTUS??? Geez…Pat Paulson could do a better job!!
I’ll find the bridge eventually.
Another bloated and inflamed nether portal bites the dust.
None too soon.
Bear1909out
If I had Photoshop, I’d “absolutely” be placing an egg on Obama’s face, sunny side up.
Thank you, Daschle, for withdrawing. I was hoping you’d show a little class, and you did. Credit where credit is due, even if it took the NYT to get you to do it. Time for Geithner to bow out now, too.
Wow CO2. Even I think this has little to do with class and more with being forced out because he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
But hey. We’ll make a liberal out of you yet.
Sic him FamilyMan.
I’m thinking about starting a betting pool on who gets ditched next.
I am SO GLAD Puff didn’t make it! He is a real piece of sh*t!!
O not making good choices. O is stressed out after a few weeks on the job. He is a real lightweight and a girlyman!
What? Was the bar set to see how many tax cheats BO could expose in the first month of his presidency? In that case, I would agree. Certainly no other previous administration has had so many. He’s already surpassed Clinton (2) and Bush (1) COMBINED.
In any other context, Gibbs made the most meaningless statement I’ve heard in quite awhile. But it is emblamatic of the liberal mindset: I participated. Where’s my trophy?
Anyone can set the bar high. It’s only meaningful when, once set at whatever level, the goal is met.
Gibbs is a complete tool. He’s making Scott McClellan look good and I thought that was impossible.
Just curious, what makes you think the NYTimes was the motivating factor.
I suspect there is now an adendum to that famous 60-page questionnaire for Obama appointees.
On the new pages, drawn in crayon, are questions about:
Have you ever failed to report income, or pay federal, state or local taxes in excess of $125,000?
Have you ever committed a felony, and be caught?
Have you ever worn fur in public?
Did you maintain “plausible deniability” in regards to any hiring of illegal aliens?
Have you now, or did you ever, text any under-age interns while serving in the House or Senate?
Do you party with Michael Phelps?
Is there anything we should really, really, really know before submitting your nomination to the Senate? Seriously?
Added bonus is we won’t have to look at red, titanium $500 designer eyewear that was described in the NY Post as “all the geek without the chic.” He isn’t GQ enough to pull it off, anyway.
Exactly. I just don’t think BHO gets sad or has regrets about the kinds of things most people would be sad about, you know, like people killing babies, or leaving them to die in a laundry room.
I rarely write things so that others will respond. It’s usually because it makes me feel better to vent!
chapoutier: I said “a little.” I’ve lived amongst a bastion of liberal voters my whole life. I toe to no one’s line of thinking other than my own, I say!
FamilyMan: Well, it sure as heck wasn’t because of anything I said.
Credit where it’s due. Nothing more to read into it than that. I’m just relieved one of these corrupt nominees had a moment of lucidity and decided to pull himself out of the running. I’m of the belief that the occasional gift of grace can be a virtue. I need all the recognition of virtue I can get, not that anyone here should give a crap about my personal imperfections.
Have a nice day.
Puff the magic tax dodger
lived here for free
on the backs of everyone else
like you and me….
…and the true taxpayers don’t matter anyway, only Congress.
I remember Pat Paulson…yes, he would be better.
As for this other mess, I think he (Oblahblah) knew for some time, and they were trying to figure out how to get around it…or whether he would get the Geithner treatment.
The committee had a report on this well before there was any public mention of this.
…and Daschle admitted there was something last June that made him think he should pay taxes on his driver/limo.
Prolly something like Oblahblah’s poll numbers.
*chuckle*
Daschle is a criminal X2: (1) a tax cheat and selling favors while in ofice; (2) criminally STUPID! The combination of these two elements define the democRAT party. Nancy Pelosi, suffering from Alzheimer’s, claims we lose 500,000,000 jobs a month while diverting billions of dollars to her “friends” who will make sure her husband’s business is booming and she collects millions after leaving office for, “speaking tours.” Who could possibly want to hear this pathetic woman spout incoherent blather spiked with almost non-stop bloopers? Did you say, “Morons?” BO thinks there are 57 states, has filled his cabinet with crooks and those who are enemies of our Constitution and promises, “HOPE,” while smoking cigarettes – can you say heart attack and lung cancer? The guy is a moron – no wonder the journalists love him – they could always bum a cigarette off of him and smoke on his UN blue plane. Of course if BO goes up in smoke (is that a pun?) we get Biden – but think of the small CO2 footprint he has. Without almost any brain function, his basal metabolic rate is 20% lower! How green is that? WHEN Biden dies from self strangulation from putting both feet in his mouth, we get PELOSI. OMG – please everyone help BO stop smoking!