Clinton 3, Obama 1 - "Back to the Future" Change Keeps a Coming
Categories: Barack Obama, Finanacial Crisis, TAXES, Political Culture
Tom Daschle, the far left Democratic Senate leader under former President Bill Clinton, has been tagged by the Obama administration for Health and Human Services. So there you go Clinton Three (Emanuel, Holder & Daschle) Obama One (Governor Napolitano of AZ). This is the amazing "change"? The "no politics as usual"? The "end of partisanship"? So far you have two rabid partisan arm twisters in Emanuel and Daschle appointed and Hillary Clinton set to be named Secretary of State. Does anyone, hello ANYONE!, think that had Obama announced these picks before securing the office he would have been elected? Change? The first four people picked have a combined 70 years in Washington D.C.. Compare that to GW Bush's first four picks having a combined 30 years in D.C. More Back to the Future change.
Here is the Sourcewatch.org profile on Daschle:
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Daschle (D-SD), who lost his seat in the U.S. Senate in November 2004 to John Thune [1], was the first "Senate leader in half a century to be voted out of office." Daschle is "weighing a campaign comeback he hopes might propel him into the White House in 2008," Reuters reported July 3, 2006.
Daschle is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, focusing "on health care policy and global economic, security and health issues." Daschle is also "a member of the Global Alliances' steering committee, an international coalition of progressive leaders dedicated to the development and exchange of progressive policy ideas.
"In addition to his work at the Center, Senator Daschle is also a visiting professor at the Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, conducting student seminars, guest lectures in classrooms, and holding public discussions related to politics and policymaking."
The Center for American Progress has, as one of their stated goals:
Delivering universal health care so that quality, affordable health services are available to all Americans.
"We combine bold policy ideas with a modern communications platform to help shape the national debate, expose the hollowness of conservative governing philosophy, and challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter."
Daschle was kicked out of office while head of his own party in the Senate. His ideas and tactics were deemed a failure by his own constituents. His leadership while in the Senate, a resounding disaster. His only qualification, aside form 30 years in D.C. as a party hack, is that he is a "progressive". Progressives are basically our run of the mill socialist bureaucrats...err sorry... "professional administrators". Or call it what you will, dyed-in-the-wool socialist.
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