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For God’s sake, will somebody get Tom Daschle off caffeine? The South Dakota Democratic Senator, majority leader only because a political traitor named Jim Jeffords bolted the GOP, took the floor of the Senate Wednesday to scream and shout that Dubya is politicizing the war against terrorism. "We ought not to politicize this war. We ought not to politicize the rhetoric about life and death," Daschle said in his speech. “You tell those who fought in Vietnam and in World War Two they're not interested in the security of the American people. That is outrageous, outrageous." Tom got his underwear...

Wearing tinfoil hats to protect their private thoughts, House and Senate leaders leave a private meeting with President Bush where they complained about the FBI's practice of reading the minds of Congressmen. WASHINGTON – A week after lawmakers serving on the House-Senate panel probing pre-Sept. 11 intelligence breakdowns refused to submit to lie-detector tests to learn the source of a leak, congressional leaders now accuse the FBI of attempting to read their minds through a process known as psychotronics. House and Senate leaders demanded and received a private meeting with President Bush before his departure on a month-long-paid-family-leave to discuss...

Daschle's Green Lobby and WorldCom Executives Belong in the Same Jail CellBy J.J. Johnson - Sierra Times Editor & Chief Published 08. 1. 02 at 20:07 Sierra Time The Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society has felt the heat and decided to try a little spin control. They write: "Amid the current epidemic of forest fires burning across the West -- fires exacerbated by a combination of factors including severe drought and a century of aggressive fire suppression -- the Forest Service, some elected officials, and newspapers such as the Washington Times and Wall Street Journal have attempted to turn...

REVIEW & OUTLOOKTrial-Lawyer TrifectaAs John McCain kept telling us, campaign finance reform was going to reduce if not end special-interest influence in Washington. Perhaps the Senator forgot to tell the plaintiffs' bar, which is dominating the current Congressional session as completely as any lobby ever has.From asbestos-litigation reform to terrorism insurance to even the patients' bill of rights, the tort lawyers areblocking whatever they don't like. So great is their clout in the Senate that the lawyers are even inducing Democrats to kill their own self-professed priorities. Ed Hyman's ISI Group calls it the "trial lawyer trifecta," but even that...

ABC 2004: The Invisible PrimaryBy Mark Halperin, Elizabeth Wilner & Marc Ambinder U P D A T E D May 29 — Since we last published our Invisible Primary Ratings in February, we've had a big cattle call, a fundraising disclosure deadline, and at some point along the way, a silent but unmistakable go-ahead for the Democratic field to frontally attack the wartime President they hope to replace. All six of the top-tier contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, plus the upwardly mobile (ratings-wise) Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, have stepped up their criticisms of President Bush. Former Vice President...

HMMM...Daschle and his lousy 23.8 percent Senator Daschle's Job Performance Review 23.8% = UnderperformingAfter a year as Senate Majority Leader, Senator Daschle has little to show for it. Senator Daschle's year as Senate Majority Leader has been a year of delay and obstruction. With no budget, unable to outline priorities, and an inability to pass legislation, Senate Democrats have failed to lead. While the House of Representatives is addressing the President's compassionate conservative agenda for national, homeland, and economic security, Senate Democrats continue to ignore their responsibility to the American people. As Senate Majority Leader, Senator Daschle has a 23.8%*...

Events this week reminded our countrymen that "homeland security" in the war with Jihadistan is not all that secure -- and can certainly be used as cheap partisan fodder by unscrupulous Leftists. Coast Guard intelligence reports surfaced about 25 Islamic militants who have entered the U.S. since March in shipping containers at the ports of Miami, Savannah, Georgia, and Long Beach, California. This report arrived amid charges by Sociocrats and their Leftmedia cadre that an intelligence report given to President Bush last August constituted "advance knowledge" that Osama bin Laden planned a terrorist airline hijacking in the U.S. Senate Majority...

Daschle Corners His Own Party By Terence P. Jeffrey Thanks to Democratic Senate Leader Tom Daschle (D.-S.D.), November may bring an almost unprecedented moment to modern American politics: total Republican control of both elective branches of the federal government. Since the early 1930s, when the ill-fated Herbert Hoover sat in the White House, Republicans have controlled the House, Senate and presidency simultaneously only twice. Both times it was briefly and precariously. The 83rd Congress, elected with President Eisenhower in 1952, started with a 221-to-215 Republican majority in the House (with 1 Independent). The Senate started with a 48-to-47 Republican majority...

<p>Until that happens, Dayton said Tuesday, he intends to block a vote on President Bush's nomination of Maj. Gen. Daniel James III to head the U.S. Air National Guard.</p> <p>A year ago, Dayton said, the then-director of the U.S. Air National Guard promised him that newer F-16 jets would be sent to the 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth by 2003 to replace the current aircraft, now more than 20 years old.</p>

Okay, folks, let's help South Dakota get rid of at least half of their Senatorial dynamic duo--Democrat Tim Johnson. Go to the John Thune Website and donate a few bucks. I just donated $20. It will be money well spent if we can help take South Dakota out of the wacko-liberal-commie-utopian hands. You can donate on line at this link or you can send a donation by mail. The address is: John Thune for South Dakota P.O. Box 516 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 I live in Redmond, WA, so the only benefit this has for me is knowing that it...

<p>Senate Democrats yesterday barred the public from a committee meeting and vote on a land-use bill that opponents believe will impose federal standards on local zoning boards.</p> <p>"This was no accident; this was a purposeful sham," said Mike Hardiman, spokesman for the American Land Rights Association, who lined up shortly after 8 a.m. to attend the 9:30 a.m. hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. He said the senators were trying to pass an indefensible bill in secret.</p>

WENTWORTH, S.D. (AP) -- President Bush, at the dusty epicenter of this year's battle for control of the Senate, politely shared a stage Wednesday with political nemesis Tom Daschle -- then turned to scoop up $350,000 to put him out of the Senate majority leader's job. ``Tom, I'm honored you'd come,'' Bush told Daschle in a pulled-punches speech that had the president thanking the South Dakota Democrat who more often takes White House blame for Senate inaction on the Bush agenda. The Democrats' one-vote grip on the Senate has frustrated Bush on everything from drilling for oil in the Arctic...

Get a load of this article with Dash-hole, severely in 'moonwalk' mode, trying to tell pro-Israel groups that he and the Dems will support Israel. After all the pro-Palestinian rallies and rabble-rousing, he's making himself look like an ass, just like Gore did today.

As a South Dakota voter, currently stationed with the Air Force in Colorado, I have become extremely angry and frustrated with the extreme partisanship and obstruction in the Senate ... especially that committed by my own Senator, Tom Daschle. Daschle, Leahy, and their cohorts have discarded the U.S. Constitution in their efforts to prevent the Bush administration to deal with both foreign and domestic issues in our time of crisis. They have distorted the advice and consent role the Constitution grants the Senate and they have instituted un-Constitutional standards for votes on legislation. Most reprehensible, they have added political philosophy...

Yesterday, Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle suggested that we might not win the war on terrorism. We've had some success, the Senator said, but if we don't get bin Laden, we will have failed and we don't have bin Laden. Republicans were outraged. One implied that Daschle was unpatriotic. Another called his remarks disgusting. Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott wanted to know how Daschle could dare to question a president while the country was at war. In their outrage, Republicans have missed the point. Daschle is not unpatriotic to focus on capturing bin Laden. It's worse than that. He's wrong....

How would you write/would you support a new amendment to require appointments by President's receive up/down votes in the full Senate? This is the current intent of the constitution but it is negated by the rules the Senate has imposed for committees, and the powers the Senate has given committee chairpersons. The constitution gives the president the power to nominate to the judiciary and other executive offices. The constitution gives the Senate the power to advise and consent. The constitution gives the Senate the power to make their own rules. One rule made by the Senate is that committees such...

First, Thank you all for the numerous responses to my last thread. Several excellent suggestions were made, including supporting the Repub candidate running for Senate in South Dakota in 2002. However, DumpDaschle.org seems to be focused on defeating Daschle when he runs again in 2004. In my opinion that is too late, and doesn't make much sense anyway because Daschle is clearly running for the Dem Pres nomination and doesn't care about his 3 electoral vote home state. My question is, is there something the 60% majority of South Dakotans can do to remove him from office NOW. Why should...

Having just watched the CBS Special telecast of quot;9-11quot;, I have to ask if Senator Tommy DascHOLE is still having a hard time trying to figure out just why some of us American citizens were more than a little displeased with him over his questioning the leadership provided by President George W. Bush in our war against terrorism. Honestly, I sure hope that the little guy can figure this one out. If not, then he is even a bigger moron that I give him credit for.

Reviled and utterly humiliated after carping during wartime about President Bush's campaign against terrorism, Senate plurality leader Tom Daschle has done a complete turnabout and today pushed a pro-Bush resolution through the Senate. The upper chamber unanimously approved a nonbinding resolution saying it "reaffirms that it stands united with the president in the ongoing effort to defeat terrorism." Scrambling to contain the damage to his White House ambitions, the South Dakota Democrat said the resolution "makes absolutely clear at this six-month juncture to al-Qaeda terrorists and to all of those who wish to take note that we will not stop ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate passed and sent to President Bush Friday a recession relief package extending jobless benefits and providing billions of dollars in business tax cuts. Bush called it "a very good bill" even though it is far less than he wanted. The final vote for approval was 85-9 and came a day after the bill cleared the House by 417-3. The swift action followed months of partisan gridlock that saw three previous House-passed versions blocked in the Senate. "The unemployed and struggling businesses have had to wait too long for the good news," said Sen. Charles Grassley ...