Posted on 02/02/2009 2:00:31 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Tom Daschle’s tax issue is simply one facet of the corruption he and his lobbyist wife have been involved in.
“The national press corps didn‘t bother to tell you why Tom Daschle, the Democrats’ Senate leader, decided at the 11th hour not to run for president: In the end, he calculated that he couldn‘t survive scrutiny of his persistent service to the clients of his wife. Linda Daschle has been one of the airline industry’s top lobbyists for two decades — when she wasn‘t busy running the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which explains why, just 11 days after the 911 attacks, her husband rushed through the Democratic Senate, which he controlled, the $15 billion bailout for the airline industry, a notorious taxpayer rip-off.
Right after then-Congressman Tom Daschle dumped his first wife for a younger, prettier one, the former Miss Kansas Linda Daschle went to work as chief lobbyist for the Air Transport Association, the airline industry’s main lobby; she then became the senior vice president of the American Association of Airport Executives; and these days hangs her hat at the pricey top Washington lawlobby shop Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, headed by former GOP Senate leader and ex–Reagan chief of staff Howard Baker — where she peddles influence on behalf of a long list of lucrative aviation clients. The clients for whom Linda lobbied brought more than $5.86 million into Baker, Donelson in one three-year period, including Northwest Airlines ($870,000 from 1997 through 2001) and American Airlines ($1.26 million in fees). Northwest was already teetering on the edge of bankruptcy even before 911. American, which has had six fatal crashes since 1994 (not counting 911) and has been repeatedly fined by the FAA for a skein of safety violations, had the reputation as the most unsafe major U.S. carrier.
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The dirt on this guy just goes on and on and on and on. And his wife. This is unreal.
Right after the election, Linda announced she was starting her own lobby firm.
He’s such a little sneak. Never could stand him.
(it's definately gonna bite US in the a$$.....;)
But on this farm some animals are more equal than the others.
This is all Bullsh*t.
You’d think that in a country of 330 MILLION people, they could find at least one other citizen with the credentials to hold these offices. Ones without tax issues.
Furthermore, I would call for an audit of the personal checking and savings accounts to make sure there is and/or was no collusion between people to record previous tax payments or amounts due.
You’d think that there was a system in place to track tax payments from individual returns. I’m speaking about paper trails and source of funds....like they required for mortgages at one time.
bump!
I take it you are familiar with Animal Farm too!!!
Dashole was the leading attack dog after the 2000 election. Every day the drive by media featured some spurious attack by The Hole or some other senior rat. Through nonstop petty political ridicule of President Bush, these people diminished the standing of the US overseas. There is no question that the Hole, Pelosi, Reid and some rat senators sought to hurt the national interests of these United States. D@amn them all.
If that book does not describe exactly what is going on around here I do not know what does. Another one that fits to a T is Atlas Shrugged. They are like movie scripts except it is all too real. Do not forget. Out of Chaos comes order. The New World Order that is.
He is beyond disgusting. Daschle is a degenerate little maggot.
What a ridiculous-looking puke he is with those red glasses.
Not just Daschle is dirty. Half the congress has spouses, sons, daughters cashing in on daddy’s or mommy’s “public service”
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