My letter to Daschle

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

[skr]

I can't remember what I wrote, except that I signed it "Sincerely Disgusted" + name.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Were it only possible for 50,000 Freepers to register to vote in S.D. to turn that small man our of office. Based on his last, his next election need to be investigated for felony vote fraud.

[sport]

I did one time and strted on another but erased it because I do not want a visit from the S.S.

[sport]

I know that he did read mine either but his punk did and he or she knows that other people know what a turd they work for.

[snickeroon]

Anybody noting a common theme from all these losers who keep castigating our nation, our President and this action? Waaaaah, Waaaaaah, It's not OUR fault that we keep saying such asinine things in public and then getting buried under piles of fallout....it's the public (freepers), warmongers, Bush supporters......

They want to say something and then when they aren't applauded for their near treasonous expressions of hatred, they blame everyone else for crediting them with their own words. Well, if you believe it, stand by it, and be man enough to accept the consequences.

Just know that there are a whole bunch of us who find you to be unpatriotic, of poor character, and totally unequipped to be representing any state in this nation. Not because you don't agree, but because you don't agree for all the wrong reasons.

By the way, if you support the troops, then it means you support the Commander in Chief.

[Theodore R.]

It doesn't matter so much what WE think. What do the voters of SD think? SD did not vote Republican for senator until 1962. So most of the Dakota history of having two Democrat senators has occurred since the 1970s. SD people have followed this little whiny weasal for many, many years. He promises them one kind of federal largesse after another. They even (though narrowly, they still did) reelected his weak senatorial colleague to make sure that he remained majority leader. Of course, he didn't quite to get to remain majority leader, but I imagine he is working on that still. So what do South Dakotans think? Is their federal gravy worth having to endure Daschle and Johnson? I guess the federal gravy promised to LA by Breaux and Landrieu is a comparable tragedy.

[Theodore R.]

It was the Republicans who refused to call for an investigation into voter fraud in SD. They feared alienating the "Native American vote." It will be tough to unseat Daschle in 2004. When was the last Senate minority leader defeated for relection? I know that Goldwater unseated a Senate MAJORITY leader in 1952, but I don't know if a minority leader has been unseated. I see the Dakotans clingingly stubbornly to Daschle, who began his service as an aide to Senator McGovern.

[Theodore R.]

Really, your problem is not with Daschle. Your problem is with the people of SD, who disagree with conservatives down the line. SD people depend on government subsidies to exist in a very tough land.

[Theodore R.]

But what do you say to the people of SD? I think Daschle got over 60 percent of the vote in 1998. I don't specifically recall, but I think it was a large margin.

[Theodore R.]

You mention impeachment of Daschle? Would the House bring formal charges? No. Would the Senate muster a 2/3 vote to expel? No.

The people of SD are safe: they can have Daschle as long as they want him, I am afraid.

SD started one of the three reforms that we studied in government class, but I can't remember which one. It was either the initiative, the referendum, or the recall. We know that WI has recall of senators, but LA and TX do not. It is also questionable if a U.S. senator can be recalled, for there is nothing in the Constitution about recalling any national officials.

[Theodore R.]

In 1958, Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, R-CA, would have been defeated had he run again in a heavily Democrat year. Instead Knowland ran for governor of CA and lost by a large margin to a CA "saint," Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr. Knowland's failure to seek reelection paved the way for Everett Dirksen, R-IL, to succeed Knowland as minority leader.

Who could succeed Daschle as minority leader? There is hardly anyone out there who could unite the Democrats the way that he does.

[Theodore R.]

Daschle gets the last laugh, because he knows SD people think that they "can't make it" without him in power!!!! I imagine the Dakotans, such a small state, also like the attention that they get with Daschle's latest outbursts against the president.

[jwalburg]

I'm saddened, saddened that my poll numbers will now plunge.

[jwalburg]

Maybe not quite: Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader editorial against Daschle's comments

[henderson field]

It's tough everywhere, but the rest of us don't sell out to a man like Daschle.

[EERinOK]

Diplomacy to a Leader abd to twit are two very different things.

To Tom Dashle, diplomacy is asking France and begging 4 third world and 5 second world countries for permission to defend your country, or to really make a show, to hell with the country.

To President Bush, and I must include too, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld and our military, diplomacy is knowing where they are, and convincing their army to not fight. Right now Saddam is either dead, came close to being dead, some his head honchos are toast. Now he knows we can find him and eventually will. Shock and Awe may not be all about a massive onslaught, but to say "we know where've you have been, where you might go, and eventually you are done. Perhaps really shocking is that someone tried to give him up this morning.

Clueless Tommy.

[cajun-jack]

I wrote John Breaux a letter and requested that he please just slap the @@@@ out of that little midget that is always sad and concerned. I told him to give the little vermin something to be sad and concerned about.

[EERinOK]

So I wonder what Tom thinks about the coalition of the United States and Saddams soon to surrender division commanddrs. I doubt if Tom would have ever thought of that. There's realy nothing to gain politically.

If you reply to Tom, I hope that you can rebuff his (or staff) reply regarding the burden to taxpayers a war may cost.
I'm in OK and did not recieve a response to my letter to his website, on simalar lines, though not as well written as yours. I kind of ranted but was civil.

[hardcor]

Would it be Constitutional for Bush to have Daschle and his cronies arrested? Lincoln was able to do it to Confederate sympathizers and I believe he was able to detain some Congresscritters as well by removing them to the West. There is nothing in the Article I that guarantees Daschle immunity from arrest, only from prosecution. Opinions?

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Our family is boycotting South Dakota until the people there do the right thing and put Tommy back into the private sector.