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...White House, the important thing is that Tom Daschle is not technically a lobbyist. "If you're not registered to lobby, you can't be a lobbyist," explains White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. And Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader who is up for the top health post in the Obama Cabinet, never filled out the paperwork to register...
...Tuesday morning, it became apparent that the storm was only intensifying, and Daschle, recognizing the change in the political winds, withdrew his name from consideration for the Cabinet post. Several editorial pages - including the New York Times's - had called on him to withdraw. And there was a new allegation, reported by Politico, that Daschle had recommended the very businessman who had supplied him with the car service for two Cabinet posts in the Obama Administration. As one close adviser put it, the case for Daschle had "appreciably deteriorated from 24 hours ago." (See who's who in Obama...
...clear who Obama will nominate to replace Daschle or whether that person will hold a dual post in the White House as health-care czar, as Daschle had insisted upon. "There's a lot of impetus and momentum behind health reform, and it will continue," Axelrod said. "We'll miss Senator Daschle's leadership, but the issue has great power of its own. People feel it in their own lives, businesses feel it, and it's part of our approach to helping this economy recover...
...Libyans have got a long rap sheet. Blowing up people is one of the things they do." - Dan Cohen, father of one of the Lockerbie victims, pushing for extended U.N. sanctions against Libya for the 1988 bombing. (Jerusalem Post, March...
...have to find out." - Following the 2006 decision to sentence five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for allegedly infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV. Gaddafi's decision to release the medics to Bulgarian authorities in 2007 further bolstered Libya's relations with Europe. (Washington Post...