[zzen01]

Unbelievable

[BradyLS]

Translation: "Curses! Foiled again..."

[Scarchin]

Too long to go into here, but I have a liberal friend who had direct dealings with Daschle. Daschle is a despicable hardcore a-hole.

[DTogo]

His role may have been defensive, but the manner in which he conducted himself was offensive.

[Penny]

When I first heard his whiny voice, I put on my best Zell Miller hat and said "Get out of my face!" With that, I made a run for the remote and returned to FOX. How disgustingly shameless and ineffective he is (and was), but, of course, Russert will spare no amount of effort to make him a regular on MTP. Uggghhhhh!

Regards, Penny

[chilepepper]

personally, i found daschle to be pretty offensive...

[EternalVigilance]

Well, don't worry, Tommy-boy. Your woman made millions peddling your power and influence. I seriously doubt you'll ever have worry about where your next meal is coming from.

[drt1]

""I don't think you should ever apologize for making your voice heard,"

Tommy,Tommy, you are, as usual, wrong! YOU should always apologize for opening your smarmy, whiny mouth. Go filch bucks lobbying your fellow fat cat Pols. Public Service my A$$.

[Voice in your head]

"...and that kept him from pursuing the proactive agenda he envisioned when he first entered politics."

And what he envisioned was probably something like this:

[G.Mason]

"The noise of democracy is something we have to protect and celebrate, not try to demean and to negate."

Someone tell Mr. Used To Be we are celebrating, and that he simply wasn't invited to the party. ;)

[Darkwolf377]

Dems always, always, ALWAYS take the "but I was just trying to help/pity me" position when they lose. What a pussy!

[blackie]

"Daschle said President Bush in his second term has a "golden opportunity" to change the increasingly partisan tone of Washington."

Get a grip Dasshole, your party is out of power, it's your turn to come to the right and stop this partisan hate speech!

[alloysteel]

"Loyal opposition"? Loyal to what? Not, so far as may be determined, the United States.

Tom Daschle stayed in the Senate because he could take pork home to South Dakota, and he maintained an intensive database of South Dakota voters, communicating with them often. This database was the source of Daschle's continuing popularity in a state that one would normally expect to be Republican in outlook.

[Caipirabob]

Daschle says political role was more defensive than offensive

This is quite possibly true. Being that Daschle, as a man, is only 3 feet tall, he fought a constant defensive battle to avoid being stepped on by the likes of "patent leather steel-toe shoed" Republicans.

We finally squashed him November 3rd.

[Libertina]

He says it but he lies...

[F.J. Mitchell]

I found every rigamarole, that Daschelle employed, to be offensive, as well as his whinny little voice and his sly face and beady eyes.

[sevry]

Dirk likes Tom, perhaps. But Tom is a liar. If the GOP were going to take food out of the hands of innocent babes, it was probably Tom who told you that. If the Republicans were going to destroy Social Security overnight, it was probably Lyin Tommy who told you. The GOP planning on giving all the money to Hollywood fatcat libs, Tom told ya - except he'd phrase it as, the 'rich', and not mention his wealthy lib benefactors. GOP would stormtroop right into your closet - probably Tom was the source (not that stormtroopin into closets was something he necessarily found objectionable, if one remembers Clinton, Reno, and one Easter). I find it amazing he was so often elected. As people have said, it CLEARLY has to have been the case that he ran as one candidate in the state, very different from the man, if I can call him that, that he was in the Senate.

Tom Daschle was CATEGORICALLY A DISGRACE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[hermgem]

Daschle originally wanted to be offensive but informs us to have been defensive.
This is what takes place in a man that gave up his ideal and followed one of at first easier appearing route of taking orders.
Too late to get away from it once you're in this rot you're caught.
His basic flaw:
Only superficial determination to begin with nor enough conviction of standing up and fighting for what you belief in. Tom: Retrospect is a confession that it's too late.

[Republican Wildcat]

Wah nah nah nah, Wah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!

[Republican Wildcat]

(Oh, by the way, that last message of mine was to Daschle, not you). :-)

[Reader of news]

Daschle, who plans to continue living in Washington, said he hasn't decided what he wants to do but would like to stay involved in public policy. He has ruled out lobbying and running for office, instead considering writing, lecturing, teaching and opportunities in the private sector.

Daschle was a DC resident and represented the values of Washington, D.C., not the SD ones.