Article Published: 11/6/05
Daschle’s Des Moines speech leaves his future open
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“While we take the offense and lead, the Republicans will be sticking with the same banalities, platitudes and false promises they have been concocting since 1980. They’ll try to keep rewarding the haves and shortchanging the have-nots. They keep trying to sell the idea that greed is good, that what America really needs most is just one more tax cut for billionaires, that our highest aspiration ought not [be] to help a neighbor, but to go shopping,” he said.
“Is a selfish America America at its best?” he asked the crowd.
he was standing on the holy ground of the 2008 presidential test
his political action committee was a national television appearance on Bill Maher’s “Real Time” HBO show.
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The hand is out
The South Dakota Democratic Party is looking to get some financial assistance Wednesday with help from their political hall-of-famers.
Former Sens. George McGovern and Daschle will be honored at a D Street Washington, D.C., fund-raiser that will benefit the party.
What will it cost you?
Well, if you are a host, $5,000 will get you there. A sponsor can attend for $2,500. Actually, it is cheaper to be a “friend.” That will only cost you $1,000.
One more thing noted on the invitation. “We want to encourage everyone to participate. No PAC? No problem. Come join us for the special price of $100. Federal PAC checks or personal checks only.”
Daschle: Plan must represent America
The Democratic Party cannot only rely on GOP missteps if it wants to succeed, the former senator says in Iowa.
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
November 6, 2005
Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle on Saturday declared President Bush's presidency "essentially over," but said Democrats can capitalize in 2006 only if they establish a message that goes "to the soul of our country."
"I didn't expect they would be mired in as many difficulties as they are now experiencing," Daschle said about Bush during a Des Moines Sunday Register interview while in Iowa on Saturday.
Decidedly negative perceptions of Bush's work in Iraq, the indictment of a top White House adviser and the soaring budget deficit "have created a vastly different environment from what we saw just a year ago," Daschle said before headlining a state Democratic dinner in Des Moines.
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"In other words, it just can't be what we're going to do about energy policy. It's got to be deeper than that," Daschle said. "It's got to go to the soul of our country. I want to see our party talk again about social justice."