My letter to Daschle

Tom Daschle's Web site ^ | 3/18/03 | Paul Rivers

[spacewarp]

Mr. Daschle,

I find your recent outburst against our President disgraceful. I cannot believe you do not have the grace and comprehension to understand that you do not attack the President in that manner just before we embark on placing troops in harms way. You have the right to your free speech. I grant you that. But you also have the need to put the public before your petty desires to destroy our President. I think it's sick that you've staked your reputation and your career on the United States losing a war. I'll be VERY glad when you are no longer in public service. Because you long ago forgot what you were serving. You decided that it was better for you to just go on a power trip, and to hell with "service". So, for your petty comments, I hope you find that the people, on important matters, have strange and long memories. You and the French will be long before forgiven. One day soon, you will be sitting all alone, in a reception hall, crying into your champagne, saying "how could they? How could the people turn on me? ME?" And you will think back and realize that you have tried to destroy, or have destroyed too many people in your life for the people to support you. Some day, you may remember. Some day you may understand. I hope it's not too late for you. But, I doubt it. You gave up your heart. You gave up your soul. You sold it down the river for power. And for that, you surely will regret what you've become. Because when it is all done, you will have none, heart, soul or power.

Paul

[spacewarp]

I wanted to express my disgust. I hope he gets to read it. Maybe he'll get the message. I encourage all to post a comment or two for Tommy Boy.

[Capitalism2003]

Get rid of this little fart.

http://www.DUMPDASCHLE.org

[CatOwner]

Sorry, you're a supporter of the President. Your letter is now in the trash can. Dashole is looking for someone to kiss his rear and who he can fool, ya know, liberals.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Maybe he'll get the message.

Personally, I hope he doesn't get it. I want Daschle to keep making these statements and then watch while Republicans dominate all 3 branches of Government for the next 40 years.

[The PeteMan]

Dashole is an midget cry baby. I would love to see someone punch him in the face.

[Jackson Brown]

For the record -- Tom Daschle's "previous" statements -- "I urge the President to take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." "Look, we have exhausted virtually all our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that, what other option is there but to force them to do so? That's what they're saying. This is the key question. And the answer is we don't have another option. We have got to force them to comply militarily." Tom Daschle 1998 What's the difference now? Why is this administration's diplomacy a dismal failure and Clinton's was not? The party that is in the white house and the people in that party who want to be there.

[MEG33]

I'm with you.

[Caipirabob]

You know I wonder if we might send our letters for Daschle to our local Senators or just conservative ones and request they read them on the floor in protest. That may have more of an impact and if they read them, the word will get to people who count.

[Search4Truth]

Way to go Paul. Good letter. A little formatting may have made it better.

[DadOfFive]

This is the boilerplate response you will get, we (several of us) have already got ours back. They probably are not reading them but perhaps they are counting.
We are in South Dakota. First my letter to him:

Mr. Daschle,
You're statement about our President offends me and just about every other South Dakotan I know.
When I hear people like Mara Liasson say, "Daschle's statement was over the top", you know it was over the top.
Perhaps you forget that Mr. Clinton didn't even bother with the UN when going into Kosovo. I don't remember hearing anything from you on that matter. I was behind Clinton, although I admit I may have questioned his timing.

Please do your fellow South Dakotans a favor, and preface your outlandish statements with, "I do not speak for South Dakota when I say...".
I am personally tired of defending our state from ridicule because of your personal beef against our rightfully elected president.
BTW, it might be a good time to drop the Estrada thing.

Clay M
South Dakotan

And the gutless response:

Dear (Your name here):
Thank you for contacting me about my comments regarding President Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq. I appreciate your input on this matter.
First, let me say that, like all Americans, I strongly support our troops. I will work with the President and my colleagues in Congress to make sure they have the resources and tools they need to accomplish their mission.
Second, Saddam Hussein is a threat to his own people, the region, and the world, and the United States cannot tolerate the possession and development of weapons of mass destruction by his regime. There has never been a debate about the need to confront Saddam and the threat he poses.
I have always made clear that he is a serious threat and have supported the use of force should it be necessary to disarm him.
In my view, this has been a debate about how best to confront that threat - at the least risk to our soldiers and the least burden to America's taxpayers. This situation - where Saddam poses a threat to us and our friends - demanded vigorous diplomacy and coalition-building at the highest levels of this Administration - the kind of effort we saw in 1990 by President Bush's father and his Administration. The results in 1990 were very clear - more than 16 countries contributed more than 200,000 ground troops, and our friends and allies covered 90% of the costs.
Unfortunately, we did not have that kind of effort here and did not get a similar result. Nevertheless, I am confident our troops will make us all proud, and I stand ready to do whatever is necessary to help them accomplish their mission swiftly and safely so they may return home soon.
Once again, I appreciate hearing from you, and I hope we you will stay in touch.
Sincerely,

Tom Daschle
United States Senate
TAD/twr
To read my statement in response to President Bush's March 17 address to the nation, please clink on this link:
http://daschle.senate.gov/front_031703.html

[Saundra Duffy]

Amen! IMPEACH!!!!

[tamikamaria]

I got the same response back last night. It cracked me up.

I can just see him sitting at his desk in his little pink tie writing: "Dear (insert irate constituent's name here), Gosh, I loved hearing from you. I hope we can still be friends. Love, Tommy"

He's pathetic.

[daddypatriot]

Tom Daschle represents everything any thinking person has ever suspected about Senate Democrats. They are the intellectual midgets that get themselves elected to office and are the terrible price that we pay for having a democratic form of government. Let us note that government service has been a financial windfall for Daschle and his wife. The question is: Have the two ever held an honest job?

[rj45mis]

Your letter's not bad but Daschle is a pig and he is only out for numero uno. I'd love to get him in a boxing ring and pound his stinking a#$

[samtheman]

I agree. I hope Daschle and his dimwit party cohorts continue to show the American people just how leftist they really are.

[Grampa Dave]

Nice letter, but Tommy is too young and immature to read letters.

PASS TOMMIE TO THE SECRET SERVICE. HIS PAMPERS ARE FULL AGAIN. PLEASE FIND HIS PACIFIER AND STICK IT IN HIS MOUTH. I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE OF HIS WHINING, AND HE STINKS!

[richardtavor]

I a similar letter, but to the editorial page of the DesMoines Register. I thought it would do more good.

[richardtavor]

I wrote a similar letter.

[merak]

My own email to several of SD's newspaper people:

bill.harlan@rapidcityjournal.com
randy.rasmussen@rapidcityjournal.com
peggy.sagen@rapidcityjournal.com
ron.bender@rapidcityjournal.com

"I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war, saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country,"
Tom Daschle, US Senator from South Dakota.

Dear Friends,

To my own thinking at least, there is no completely rational reason for a state the size of South Dakota to have even one US senator, much less two. I would suggest that if you do not find some way to either recall or muzzle Tom Daschle, a lot of people in other parts of the country are going to begin to notice this and it might occur to them to try to do something about it.

[el_texicano]

Well said.