Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Vetting Daschle: A Matter of Judgment

Today Tom Daschle became Obama's second cabinet level appointee (first was Richardson) to withdraw his name from consideration because of an undisclosed scandal. He might have been third if our treasury secretary's tax fraud was a bigger deal.

I don't want to go all Katie Couric on this, but how did the main-stream media with their gotcha questions miss this hypocrisy?

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5 comments:

Paul said...

That last linked article is so insightful.

Writing Group Blog said...

I'm sorry that you're the only one that reads your blog. And as for Daschle, maybe people like hypocrisy. It's so...biblical.

Paul said...

You might argue that the best government is a hypocracy, which I think would be "less government," etymologically. But it could also mean ruling from beneath. Like Shredder and the Foot Clan leading from the sewers. TMNT hypocrates.

The Pale Horse said...

Add to the list Obama's nominee for chief performance officer: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_killefer

That makes three or four.

Sebi said...

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