Comments on: Tom Daschle withdraws, and how that will impact health care reform http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dr. Mary Johnsonhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html#comment-89665 Dr. Mary Johnson Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will-impact-health-care-reform.html#comment-89665 Cadillacs are nice.<br/><br/>My mailman drives one.<br/><br/>I drive a Camry. Cadillacs are nice.

My mailman drives one.

I drive a Camry.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html#comment-89621 Anonymous Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:30:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will-impact-health-care-reform.html#comment-89621 The idea that some super smart politician is going to save us is a very destructive one. It is what gives us Kings and dictators and Big Government. <br/><br/>Those guys are no smarter than your neighbor, and probably morally worse, given the corrupting power of power itself.<br/><br/>It doesn't matter. One overinflated hypocrite who substitutes hubris for understanding will simply be replaced with another.<br/><br/>Ever notice how those congressmen go home and tell you how hard they fight to help the country, . . but they are just one little guy and can't do much. Then when they are out of office, just their contacts alone are worth millions to those who can pay and want access to your tax pocket. It turns out that they, even without the office have lots of influence--they just used it for the particular good rather than the public good--the particular good of themselves and those who can pay.<br/><br/>Notice how even with all that valuable influence, a lifetime pension the envy of all and freedom that flows from that, and decades of proclaiming their compassion for "the little guy", they devote their retirement years to fighting for "the big guy" who can pay. <br/><br/>The notion of using retirement to serve others is left to the "little people" who carry the community on their backs with their volunteer work. The idea that some super smart politician is going to save us is a very destructive one. It is what gives us Kings and dictators and Big Government.

Those guys are no smarter than your neighbor, and probably morally worse, given the corrupting power of power itself.

It doesn’t matter. One overinflated hypocrite who substitutes hubris for understanding will simply be replaced with another.

Ever notice how those congressmen go home and tell you how hard they fight to help the country, . . but they are just one little guy and can’t do much. Then when they are out of office, just their contacts alone are worth millions to those who can pay and want access to your tax pocket. It turns out that they, even without the office have lots of influence–they just used it for the particular good rather than the public good–the particular good of themselves and those who can pay.

Notice how even with all that valuable influence, a lifetime pension the envy of all and freedom that flows from that, and decades of proclaiming their compassion for “the little guy”, they devote their retirement years to fighting for “the big guy” who can pay.

The notion of using retirement to serve others is left to the “little people” who carry the community on their backs with their volunteer work.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html#comment-89612 Anonymous Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will-impact-health-care-reform.html#comment-89612 Oh, c'mon, taxes are for the little people.<br/><br/>We're the philosopher-kings. We levy taxes, we don't pay them.<br/><br/>What, you mean not everyone has a chauffeur-driven Cadillac? Oh, c’mon, taxes are for the little people.

We’re the philosopher-kings. We levy taxes, we don’t pay them.

What, you mean not everyone has a chauffeur-driven Cadillac?

]]> By: Dr. Mary Johnsonhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html#comment-89609 Dr. Mary Johnson Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will-impact-health-care-reform.html#comment-89609 Kevin, the rules must apply to everyone. <br/><br/>Daschle lied to the IRS. I love how those ethical/transparent sorts who would minimize this are calling what he did just an "honest mistake" or an "oversight". <br/><br/>It's an oversight that kept money in his pocket and would have sent lesser beings to prison.<br/><br/>http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2009/02/yeah-mr-president-you-did-screw-up.html Kevin, the rules must apply to everyone.

Daschle lied to the IRS. I love how those ethical/transparent sorts who would minimize this are calling what he did just an “honest mistake” or an “oversight”.

It’s an oversight that kept money in his pocket and would have sent lesser beings to prison.

http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2009/02/yeah-mr-president-you-did-screw-up.html

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html#comment-89608 Anonymous Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:27:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will-impact-health-care-reform.html#comment-89608 Does anyone remember "Throw the rascals out" during the Clinton administratio? Daschle was one of those rascals. Does anyone remember “Throw the rascals out” during the Clinton administratio? Daschle was one of those rascals.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html#comment-89606 Anonymous Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will-impact-health-care-reform.html#comment-89606 I am a solid democrat, and supporter of Obama, but Daschle's an idiot. Good riddance.<br/><br/>Hopefully Sanjay Gupta will have somehtin in his closet too. I am a solid democrat, and supporter of Obama, but Daschle’s an idiot. Good riddance.

Hopefully Sanjay Gupta will have somehtin in his closet too.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html#comment-89605 Anonymous Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will-impact-health-care-reform.html#comment-89605 The journalist, Amy Goodman, interviews Richard Kirsch, the national campaign manager of Health Care for America Now, today on the news program Democracy Now! They discuss the impact of Daschle's withdrawal from nomination.<br/><br/>see transcript or video at:<br/>http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/4/with_daschles_withdrawal_from_health_sec The journalist, Amy Goodman, interviews Richard Kirsch, the national campaign manager of Health Care for America Now, today on the news program Democracy Now! They discuss the impact of Daschle’s withdrawal from nomination.

see transcript or video at:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/4/with_daschles_withdrawal_from_health_sec

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will.html#comment-89602 Anonymous Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/tom-daschle-withdraws-and-how-that-will-impact-health-care-reform.html#comment-89602 The bias drips from the screen. If Daschle were a Republican he would have been out faster than you could say "culture of corruption".<br/><br/>Daschle blackballed high-quality Bush appointees for one hell of a lot less. Remember Miguel Estrada? No, I didn't imagine you would.<br/><br/>And I don't consider Daschle a high-quality anything. What expertise does he have in healthcare? I mean besides getting millions from the fat-cats. The bias drips from the screen. If Daschle were a Republican he would have been out faster than you could say “culture of corruption”.

Daschle blackballed high-quality Bush appointees for one hell of a lot less. Remember Miguel Estrada? No, I didn’t imagine you would.

And I don’t consider Daschle a high-quality anything. What expertise does he have in healthcare? I mean besides getting millions from the fat-cats.

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