Daschle's Bad Hair Day

Daschle's Bad Hair Day
by Ted Lang, Associate Editor

September 27, 2002

Columnist Ted Lang Wasn't it great to see Mr. Smoothie (right) become totally unglued? Wasn't it great to see Mr. Collected, or is it Mr. Collectivist, so totally lose it? For me, it was a high point in American politics. Talk about shaking and quaking, did you get to see the clip of the Senate's leading old pork glutton and Dirty Byrd assailing the upper atmosphere with his bent and crooked finger shouting "…wrong, WRONG!?"

I really think those two leading members of the Demagogic Party were honestly angry! As far as I'm concerned, this is the Bush Administration's finest hour! And talk about poetic justice! The reason for this jackassinine outburst from these two socialists is attributable to the mistake of one of their party's chief propaganda factories: The Washington Post.

Daschle's deceptive air of political professionalism continuously reminds me of his involvement in altering a Federal Aviation Administration grounding order for a friend's aircraft. It will be recalled that Linda Daschle, once a top FAA official and now-lobbyist, used her influence to re-certify an aircraft that had been FAA-grounded. The Daschles reversed that life-saving order as a political favor, and three physicians who used the plane died when it crashed. The records of this malfeasance curiously disappeared, just like Clinton and Gore's e-mails.

Then there was the Homestake Mine Conveyance, yet another scheme where Daschle used his influence for obvious personal gain. The Barrick Gold Corp. of Canada acquired Homestake, but only after possible environmental clean up was guaranteed by the sellers, Daschle's friends. The investors were of course taking a risk, as do all capitalists. But the real risk was from the potential release of pollutants possibly requiring as much as $1 billion for environmental remediation. Daschle created legislation transferring environmental liability from his friends, his state, South Dakota, and putting the entire environmental risk on the American taxpayer and the United States.

Daschle was stumping for "severely admonished" Senator Robert Torricelli in New Jersey on the same day that President Bush was there campaigning for his opponent, Doug Forrester. Daschle whined for New Jerseyens to look beyond Torricelli's "bad judgment," and look beyond to the conservative horror of a Republican and honest businessman. "Bad judgment" is the term Democrats use when they get caught taking bribes. The rest of us, along with Democrats who don't play ball like James Traficant, go to jail.

Democrats have been extremely busy creating an astonishing array of accomplishments: intern oral sexcapades and disappearances; missile guidance systems for weapons of mass destruction for the Communist military; Traficant transporter blockage; Torricelli admonishments; intelligence agency neutering; zero tolerance for judicial nominations; facing down individualism; etc. But no achievement is as impressive as challenging President Bush's war with Iraq on the grounds that he is a Republican!

Rush Limbaugh pointed out on Wednesday during Daschle's hissy fit that his "melt down" was as a result of his being set up by the Algore. Algore attacked President Bush concerning his desired preemptive war with Irag. Algore, the life form incapable of identifying the busts of American patriots Jefferson and Franklin, attacked Bush's Iraq policy strictly for political reasons. Daschle and the Demos demanded that Bush first go to the UN. Bush did that. Then Demos demanded that Bush go to Congress. Bush did that.

Americans polled in at a 68% approval rating for the president's efforts. This has created an untenable situation for Democrats who have been called for their demagoguery in supporting Clinton's call for attacking Saddam in 1998, and now their complete 180 in not supporting Bush's intended execution of that same policy today. And this obvious display of cheap, low class politics has only been exacerbated for its jackassininity by the Algore's ill-timed attack on Bush.

Add to that The Washington Post's erroneous report aligning Bush's comments relative to obstructionist politics on Iraq when Bush was really referring to the Homeland Security Bill, and we have all the ingredients for Daschle's dishevelment.

Limbaugh points out that Mr. Smoothie went nuts because Democrats are losing badly and elections are only a little more than a month away. As usual, Democrats have no issues, and the leader of the Democrats is between a rock and a hard place: Torricelli and the Algore. If the Torch is snuffed out, Mr. Smoothie is no longer Majority Leader. Now add to that a pronouncement of truth, Homeland Security versus Iraq notwithstanding, and we have a bucket of fresh water! What a world, what a world! And it's not even Hilloween yet! ***

Photo of Columnist Ted Lang courtesy of the author
Photo of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) courtesy of his Official Web Site