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None of the names being bandied about to take Daschle??s place have both his knowledge of policy minutiae and his political acumen. Some are wonks, like Daschle??s would-be deputy Jeanne Lambrew. Others are skilled political operators, like Clinton chief of staff and Center for American Progress president John Podesta. But not one can match Daschle in both arenas. Given that both of these skill sets are to be critical in passing a universal health care bill, any possible replacement will not be as effective as he would have been...

Author: By Dylan R. Matthews | Title: To Your Health? | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...easy to view Daschle??s withdrawal as a boon for the Obama administration and a strong symbolic stand against corruption. Robert Reich, for one, praised it as a sign of “no tolerance” for “the way things used to be done.” But with Senate Finance chairman Max Baucus expressing doubt that health care reform will happen in 2009, Daschle??s departure will in all likelihood perpetuate “the way things used to be done” in the American health system. And when said...

Author: By Dylan R. Matthews | Title: To Your Health? | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...confronting, and ultimately defeating, the three-branch, fifty-state, multimedia right-wing behemoth that is America’s new governing party. And to the dangerously naïve among us—those who counsel “working with the president,” and hoist Tom Daschle??s political corpse as evidence of the perils of “obstructionism”—a dose of history seems in order...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: “Yeeeeaaaaggggh!” | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

...brutally attacked as anti-God and anti-security, and targeted not just for defeat but for personal destruction. Short of switching parties, or making out with the president Joe Lieberman-style, “obstructionist” is something any Democratic leader would have been labeled. Daschle??s failure wasn’t stopping too much Republican legislation; it was stopping too little—and failing to explain why Bush’s whole philosophy (and not just a particular bill) is bad for South Dakota, and bad for America...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: “Yeeeeaaaaggggh!” | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

Having bought into this theory, the Democratic leadership feels we need to fight fire-and-brimstone with fire and brimstone. Last week the party chose Tom Daschle??s replacement as Democratic leader in the Senate: Harry Reid, a Nevadan senator who opposes abortion and favors a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: The Long View | 11/23/2004 | See Source »

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