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I had to make a prediction, so there it is now. We know Obama likes Daschle, we know Daschle was vetted, and we know he has a speaker slot on Wed. We even know he's floated as a potential CoS in the WH. It makes sense too, of the whole VP process we've been watching unfold for Obama. What do you think of an Obama/Daschle ticket? What Daschle has said this week about the VP slot: Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle, a close Obama adviser, said Monday he had given the campaign personal information needed to examine the background...

...Let’s make one thing clear to the Obama Campaign and DNC: An Illegitimate Primary Victory does not equate to the Presidency. But perhaps we should seek Former Senator Tom Daschle’s opinion on that. During an interview...

Doesn't Mika Brzezinski have any Republicans in her Rolodex? With Joe Scarborough away in Florida awaiting the birth of a baby, Mika has been filling in as anchor, and I sense doing much of the show's booking [mention is often made of her work in that regard]. Today's guest lineup consisted of six Dems/liberals versus a sole Republican, brought in almost at show's end. Here's the list, in order of appearance, of today's political guests coming from outside the NBC/MSNBC family [Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell also appeared as guests, and Harold Ford, Jr. and Pat Buchanan served as panelists]:...

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It is being reported on the Rusty Humphries show that John McCain and not Jim Jeffords planned on switching to the Democrat party in 2001.

There are still nine months to go before the South Dakota Senate election between Minority Leader Tom Daschle and his Republican challenger, former Rep. John Thune. The campaign hasn’t really started yet, but you might as well get ready now for the post-election investigation into voting irregularities. It’s a sure thing. And while you’re at it, you might as well prepare for a murky end to that investigation. There might be clear evidence of wrongdoing, but no one will be found guilty of doing anything wrong. And then it will be on to the next election. Last week, we saw...

Hillary Clinton is a "moral conservative." Don't believe it? Ask Amy Sullivan. The "Time" editor said so on this evening's "Tucker." Let's just let the dialogue between Tucker Carlson and Sullivan speak for itself. But come back after the transcript to learn some interesting factoids about Ms. Sullivan's background. View video here.

<p>WASHINGTON -- The White House announced yesterday that its inquiry into intelligence failures would include Libya, North Korea, and Iran in addition to Iraq, sparking quick criticism that the panel will be a long-delayed and watered-down examination of the intelligence that the Bush administration cited to justify the war in Iraq.</p>

Former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate, George McGovern, says he has encouraged Tom Daschle to run for president in 2008. McGovern lost to Republican Richard Nixon in the 1972 election. Eight years later he lost his bid for re-election to the Senate. McGovern expects up to a dozen people to run for the Democratic nomination for president, and he says Daschle has as good a chance as anyone. Daschle expects to make a decision by year's end on whether he'll run.

Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle will gauge potential support for a 2008 presidential bid with stops in Iowa, New Hampshire and Michigan next month. Daschle, the three-term South Dakota senator who lost a re-election bid in 2004, said Wednesday that the trip is a logical progression as he weighs a White House run. "It's just taking the next step to a more thoughtful consideration of a presidential campaign," Daschle said in an interview with The Associated Press. Iowa and New Hampshire are the traditional early voting states and numerous potential candidates have visited there in recent months. Michigan could...

1. Khamenei: Iran Will Have Bomb in April April 8, 2006 could turn out to be an ominous date in history - that's the day Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says that Iran will have a nuclear weapon. Late last year Khamenei gathered his top advisers for a strategy meeting and told them "it has been promised that by April 8, we will be in a position to show the entire world that we are members of the club." This presumably refers to nuclear weapons, according to National Review Online Contributing Editor Michael Ledeen, who offered an inside look at...

Tom Daschle wrote in Washington Post: Just before the Senate acted on this compromise resolution, the White House sought one last change. Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words "in the United States and" after "appropriate force" in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary...

In the face of mounting questions about news stories saying that President Bush approved a program to wiretap American citizens without getting warrants, the White House argues that Congress granted it authority for such surveillance in the 2001 legislation authorizing the use of force against al Qaeda. On Tuesday, Vice President Cheney said the president "was granted authority by the Congress to use all means necessary to take on the terrorists, and that's what we've done." As Senate majority leader at the time, I helped negotiate that law with the White House counsel's office over two harried days. I can...

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff are in discussions with the Justice Department about his possible cooperation in a congressional corruption probe, a person involved in the investigation said Tuesday night. The probe involves a number of members of Congress as well as staff. A former aide to ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, has already pleaded guilty. Abramoff would plead guilty under an arrangement that would settle a criminal case against him in Florida as well as potential corruption charges in Washington, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the...

Reid won't be returning lobbyist contributions Spokeswoman says senator sees no reason to return funds By TONY BATT STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will not return campaign contributions he received during the past five years from lobbyists and clients associated with Jack Abramoff, a Reid spokeswoman said Friday. Federal officials are investigating whether Abramoff, a lobbyist, bilked millions of dollars from Indian gaming tribes. Reid, D-Nev., and other Democrats have been sharply critical of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, who has close ties to Abramoff. About two-thirds of Abramoff-related campaign funds were given to...

 The Federal Election Commission’s suit against the Club for Growth continues this agency’s war on the First Amendment and its defense of incumbents from criticism of their policies. The FEC’s claims and legal theories are a bizarre interpretation of the Club’s mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations governing nonprofit organizations.The Club’s principle purpose is to advocate for and defend pro-growth policies. One of the ways we do that is through the Club for Growth PAC, which allows Club members to donate to pro-growth candidates and independent expenditure campaigns. We have consulted with counsel every...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter will lead a bipartisan commission to examine problems with the U.S. election system, American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management said on Thursday. Carter, a Democrat whose Carter Center has monitored more than 50 elections around the world, will co-chair the private commission with Republican James Baker, who served as Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, a Democrat who lost his seat in the 2004 election, will also participate. "I am concerned about the state of our electoral system and believe we need...

The Robert F. Kennedy Symposium (RFK) is a traditional event held annually at UMKC that is sponsored by Student Government Association (SGA) The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Symposium is presented as an intellectual and educational experience for the University of Missouri-Kansas City students, faculty, staff, and the general Kansas City community. A symposium entails an exploration of issues and dialogue regarding a specific topic that is carried out over an extended period of time. We hope it will focus the public eye on the issues related to bioethics and stem cell research and be viewed in a rational, thoughtful manner....

Former senator Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), following a bipartisan path blazed by many prominent ex-members of Congress, has moved from Capitol Hill to K Street, joining Alston & Bird as a special adviser in the law firm's legislative and public policy group. Daschle, 57, the former Democratic leader in the Senate, starts work today providing the Atlanta-based firm's corporate clients strategic advice on such issues as energy, health care, financial services, tax policy, trade and agriculture. He was recruited by another former Senate leader, Republican Robert J. Dole, 81, who joined the firm as a special counsel in 2003. Neither...

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) is not happy that the majority party in the Senate is debating on using the U.S. Constitution and senate rules as guide to allow Federal judicial nominees their rightful vote in the full Senate. According to UPI the pompous ex-Klansman is threatening to become a "major presence on the Senate floor if Republicans alter Senate rules to prevent judicial nominations from being blocked by a minority of senators." The former KKK member then compared the GOP to Adolf Hitler. From Fox News: On Tuesday, Sen. Robert Byrd compared Republican tactics on nominees to Adolph Hitler's use...

The year: 2050 The setting: A grandfather and his grandson visiting a Museum of Natural History on a beautiful Saturday afternoon somewhere in middle America. "Oh great, this is it. Follow me, Jeffrey. I want to show you something you will never forget.” “Who are all these people, Grandpa?” “These people are Democrats?” “Demo-what?” “Democrats. Liberal Democrats from the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries.” “What happened to them?” “They became extinct at their own hand, son.” “How?” “Well for one, after decades of empty promises, it became apparent to American voters that Democrats never solved any problems, they just...

We received this in our e-mail pile without any indication of who wrote it. It was so good, we decided to post it anyway. To Michael Moore: Sit down and shut up. Your fifteen minutes are up. And do something about your hair. Looks can be deceiving, but not in your case... To Jimmy Carter: Big mistake to sit down next to Michael Moore at the convention. Spend more time with drywall and the glue gun. Or start lusting in your heart again. To Tom Daschle: If you lean too far to the left, voters will tend to lean right...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said the political role he played during the past quarter century was more defensive than offensive, and that kept him from pursuing the proactive agenda he envisioned when he first entered politics.

Our friends at CBS News are at it again -- suggesting that blogs, bloggers, and everything related to non-mainstream media reporting is at the root cause of the troubles in the industry. Not the almost unconscionably poor job that the CBS News research division has been doing in vetting stories for accuracy, nor the obvious left-leaning bias of most of its broadcasters…but blogs. Haven’t these people heard the warnings from one of the organizations that they hold in such high esteem -- the Occupational Safety and Health Administration -- regarding the tossing of inanimate missiles from the confines of one’s...

Saturday, December 11, 2004 Are conservatives 'misunderestimating' Harry Reid? Posted: December 11, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Brian Maloney © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Has conservative euphoria over Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's toppling begun to subside? Hope so, because here's a reality check: His supposedly "mild-mannered" replacement, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, could become a bigger headache for Republicans and conservatives than Daschle ever was. He's misunderstood by the opposition, and the political machine he built in Nevada provides great insight into what may happen nationally. I know from experience: I've been on his bad side and lived to tell about it...

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Following the Republican landslide victories of the 1994 midterm elections, conservatives watched in amazement as Republican “moderates” proceeded to completely squander the ground they had gained, culminating in the defeat of Bob Dole in ‘96. In the aftermath of this year’s elections, ominous signs point towards a repeat performance. Apparently, Republican Party operatives didn’t really comprehend why, in the middle of Bill Clinton’s first term, they won big. And to this day, political analysts still don’t seem to grasp the situation. Among conservatives, the conventional wisdom is that the newly realigned GOP Congressional majority had wrongly presumed too much of...

CHICAGO (AP) U.S. Sen.-elect Barack Obama on Monday announced that he has been assigned to serve on three committees and has hired Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's top aide as his chief of staff. Obama, a Democrat from Chicago, will serve on the Foreign Relations Committee, Environment and Public Works Committee and Veterans Affairs Committee. Meanwhile, Illinois' senior senator, Dick Durbin, has agreed to step down from two committees because of time constraints stemming from his new role as the second-in-command of U.S. Senate Democrats, or Democratic ``whip.'' Durbin will continue to serve on the Appropriations, Judiciary and Rules committees,...

[In using the link, go to "ACLU Watch" and then to "The 'Lawyers, Guns and Money' Cases" This is a unitary website, so the URL cannot go directly to this article.] Election Day Lawsuits None of the cases discussed this month are likely to arrive on the bench of the US Supreme Court. Nonetheless, when taken as a group these cases represent a direction in the use of lawyers and litigation to influence the results of elections. As such, they represent a negative development in American elections that may be of great interest to the readers of these Updates. The...

Election 2006 Of the 15 senators up for reelection this fall who voted to acquit Clinton in 1999, only one was defeated, but it was a big one - prince of obstruction Tom Daschle of South Dakota. Now we turn our attention to 2006. The following 14 senators who will then be up for reelection also voted to acquit Clinton and therefore disqualified themselves for public office. Moreover, all of them voted for the Harkin amendment to the bill banning partial-birth abortion. All but two of them (Byrd and Conrad) also voted on 21 Oct. 2003 against the bill to...

Hang down your head Tom Daschle Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head Tom Daschle Kiss your senate seat goodbye. I was a senate leader I thought I was immune to any election upsets But then I met John Thune. repeat chorus Down at the reservation They all vote twice for me Except the dear departed They cast theirs endlessly. repeat chorus Oh how I'll miss the senate And my friend Hillary I guess the chief obstructionist Will be Ted Kennedy repeat chorus About this time tomorrow Reckon where I'll be Back in South Dakota Watching C-Span...

The Daschle campaign, desperate at finding itself behind in the polls, has resorted to an especially low form of "push polling." Our correspondent reports: am here in Brookings, South Dakota [and] just thought I'd pass on the following information if you haven't seen or heard it. The Daschle campaign is having people claiming to be pastors and ministers calling local South Dakotans asking them whether the fact the "John Thune is attacking Linda Daschle" bothers them or makes them uncomfortable. When one constituent peppered the "pastor" with questions about his hometown, where he lived - it was apparent this "pastor"...

WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders are grumbling that the White House was much too slow in responding to Democratic attacks on George W. Bush about the disappearance of munitions in Iraq. When asked by CNN about the dubious New York Times story that ran Monday, President Bush refused comment -- more than a day after its publication. Not until Wednesday morning did the Republican candidate start to reply to John Kerry's attack. In the meantime, Tuesday night tracking showed Kerry picking up sharply. A footnote: No immediate effort was made to get retired Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the Iraq operation...

Is Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) getting panicky in his reelection bid against former representative John Thune (R)? Republicans gleefully note that after a newspaper poll showed Thune in the lead this week, Daschle's long-standing ban on third-party ads abruptly ended, and a chartered planeload of Democratic lawyers, lobbyists and loyalists is scheduled to fly from Washington to Sioux Falls today. "There's almost a panic [among Democrats] around the nation about Daschle being able to cling to his seat," Thune campaign manager Dick Wadhams said. Not so, Daschle supporters say. For starters, they say, the Zogby poll published...

Latest poll gives John Thune 49% to Tom Daschle's 46%.

Amid an allegation South Dakota isn't his true home, Sen. Tom Daschle voted in Aberdeen Wednesday. Daschle, a Democrat and Aberdeen native, took advantage of a new state law that allows residents to vote early without giving a reason. He cast his ballot shortly after 11 a.m. at the Brown County Auditor's Office in the courthouse annex. Asked in jest if he'd reveal who he voted for, Daschle said, "I voted for the most-qualified man - Tom Daschle." For more on this story read Thursday's American News.

Tom Daschle: I believe very strongly that there ought to be separation of church and state. And I know that this is a very difficult issue in many cases. But I strongly believe that one of the reasons our country was founded is a recognition that there can't be a state religion. I think we have to do all we can. As a person who grew up in Aberdeen and acquired the values I did and a belief and faith and an altar boy, I feel very strongly about the opportunities I had at Sacred Heart School. But I went...

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota. -- Control of the Senate will be up for grabs on Election Day. Right now, Republicans hold a slight edge 51-49, but there are some key Senate races that will determine the outcome. The biggest one is in South Dakota, where the top Democrat, Minority Leader Tom Daschle, is in the fight for his political life. On the colorful, picture-postcard plains of South Dakota comes the story of Tom and John. That is how they are known out here. And no, they are not best friends. As a matter of fact, they are not that fond...

WASHINGTON -- Boy, we can tell we are in the thick of the political season! There are two recent examples that deserve comment. First, the House Ethics Committee has slapped the wrist of Majority Leader Tom DeLay for the third time. I am not going to get into the question of whether DeLay was right or wrong. It is hard to judge unless you are in command of all of the facts, which I am not. Let me tell you why I think this action against DeLay was taken. For the Democrats it was an opportunity to take a swipe...

Probably the most important Senate race this year, John Thune is making headway in his quest to defeat, once and for all, notorious Senate obstructionist Tom Daschle:POLL SHOWS THUNE LEADING DASCHLE 50-47 SIOUX FALLS – The John Thune for U.S. Senate campaign today released polling numbers showing Thune leading Tom Daschle 50-47 in one the nation’s most closely watched Senate races.   The poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies (POS), surveyed 600 likely voters September 21-23 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. These numbers follow another POS poll released in late August, which showed...

A Web site has been started for students who support Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D. Republican John Thune is challenging Daschle in the Nov. 2 general election. Daschle's campaign started the Web site, www.studentsfordaschle.com, according to a press release. "I believe this is one of the most important elections in our state's history - particularly for young people," Daschle said. "It is critical that all South Dakotans participate in our democracy and my campaign will continue to encourage all South Dakotans to exercise their right to vote." Young people can register to vote at the site. They can also read Internet...

Sioux Falls, SD, Sep. 13 (UPI) -- Republican John Thune now leads Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle by three points in the South Dakota Senate race, pollster Scott Rasmussen said Monday. Thune, who served for four years as South Dakota's lone representative in the the U.S. House of Representatives, leads Daschle 50 percent to 47 percent among the 500 likely voters surveyed, inside the survey's 4.5 point margin of sampling error. In the last Rasmussen survey, conducted in February, Daschle led Thune by three points. Thune leads 51 percent to 46 percent among men and 49 percent to 47 percent...

Astronomers at the SETI@Home project have spoken up to dismiss suggestions that the project intercepted signals from an alien civilisation. Reports spread across the net yesterday and today after New Scientist said that an "interesting" signal had been picked up by the huge radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The magazine quoted Dan Wertheimer, the chief scientist on the SETI@Home project, as saying that the signal was the most interesting yet identified by the project. He remarked: "We're not jumping up and down, but we are continuing to observe it." Despite the otherwise sceptical tone of the article, his comments...

Washington, DC, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce kicked off a campaign Friday to educate voters in South Dakota about Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's record. Daschle's agenda for America, the chamber said, is "vastly different" from the needs of South Dakota.

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- A recent fund-raising letter from the National Organization for Women is requesting money for what it calls an "emergency campaign to preserve abortion rights." The solicitation also asks for a signature on a petition that will be sent to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). The petition urges Daschle to continue his obstruction of pro-life federal judges nominated by President George W. Bush. NOW asks the Democratic leader to "use the filibuster whenever it is needed." The Senate minority leader is currently blocking nearly a dozen judges, some for over two years. Republicans have promised more...

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle -- embroiled in a tough re-election campaign in South Dakota -- distanced himself this week from documentary film director Michael Moore, whose "Fahrenheit 9/11" D.C. premiere he attended last month.     Mr. Daschle disputes a claim by Mr. Moore that he -- as the highest elected Democratic official in the nation -- hugged the filmmaker after the screening and promised to fight more vigilantly against the policies of President Bush.     "I know we senators all tend to look alike," Mr. Daschle said, according to the Rapid City Journal in South Dakota. "But I arrived late and...

SPEARFISH -- Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said Thursday that he was very concerned about homeland security issues in the face of what he called the most sobering terror report he had heard recently. The United States is tightening security in the face of a steady stream of intelligence indicating an attack aimed at disrupting elections, the White House said Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security is addressing the threat and has efforts underway to ''ramp up security,'' White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Thursday. "It is absolutely essential for the U.S. Senate to turn its attention to what we...

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Animosity that runs endlesslyBy Mona CharenPublished July 3, 2004 Theaters are filling up with fans of Michael Moore -- a propagandist who makes Oliver Stone look like Alistair Cooke. Mr. Moore is, of course, free to say the war on terror is a clever cover story for George W. Bush's attempt to line his own pockets. Or to suggest that as nasty as Osama bin Laden is, he is nowhere near as bad as our president.     But the reception this preposterous pastiche of lies, warmed-over conspiracy theories and free-floating venom has received from the Democratic...

Hatch fires back at his conservative critics By Alexander Bolton Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is firing back at conservative critics on and off the Hill who have lambasted him for not moving more judicial nominees out of his committee. The rift stems from Hatch’s handling of a Senate sergeant at arms investigation into the unauthorized access of close to 5,000 internal Democratic Judiciary Committee documents from committee computers. Hatch approved the investigation, which resulted in the resignation of Manuel Miranda, who organized the GOP strategy on judges when he served as an aide...