[NC Conservative]

What if this would have been say Mrs. Bush or a GOP senator's wife? Would the liberals be upset? I guess libs are the only ones who wouldn't be influenced by conflicts of interest.

[LarryLied]

Linda Daschle is a nonperson. A www.dogpile.com newscrawler search brings up nothing. Perhaps NewsMax or someplace else will see this and it will, slowly, make its way into the public domain.

FR post with some good background on Linda and Tom:

Daschle Scandals-- Now will someone notice them?

[MtnMover]

I think that you will find that this is a general practice in government, liberal or conservative. Politicians do it, government's do it, public universities do it. The longer they stay in public service, the more frequent it gets done. That's the pattern.