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Old 02-03-2009, 07:20 PM   #1
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Post Obama suffers blow over nominees

Tom Daschle withdraws his nomination as US health secretary, hours after another Obama nominee withdrew.

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Old 02-03-2009, 09:35 PM   #2
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Don't Mourn for Daschle by JOHN NICHOLS at The Nation.

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Tom Daschle has, under his usual cloud of scandal, withdrawn as President Obama's nominee to serve in the critical Cabinet position of Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Republicans think they have dealt the new president a blow.

In fact, by opposing Daschle so strenuously, and appropriately, Republicans and a handful of principled Democratic senators (who had quietly let the White House know they were not going to back the nomination) have done the new president and the nation a favor.
I am very glad Daschle has withdrawn his nomination. I have never trusted him, he seemed like a closet republican to me. Since 9/11... Daschle has been in lock-step with the Bush Administration. When this country and DEM's needed leadership and a voice of reason amid the Bush insanity, Daschle hooked his wagon to the Bush caravan and betrayed the very people who put him in office.

I'll shed no tears over his loss.



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Old 02-04-2009, 01:00 AM   #3
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I wasn't excited about Daschle either.

I suggest Howard Dean.
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