05-02-2009, 04:26 AM
Nathaniel Heidenheimer Wrote:The depressing thing was not the taxes. It was that Tom Daschle was chosen to begin with. As Glen Greenwald said of him, in DC it is known "that there are whores and there are whores and then there' Tom Daschle" His wife was the one that got the 15 Billion airline bailout to the airline -- on 9/12. He had made 5 million in lobbying fees, since leaving the Senate like 4 years ago.
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Egg-xactly.
Daschle was chosen to insure continuity. He's the corrupt corporate system personified.