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Daschle: Obama May Abandon Effort to Reach Health Deal With Republicans

Bloomberg | Edwin Chen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama is likely in September to end Democratic efforts to work with Republicans on health-care legislation and press for a party-line...

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Senator Bernie Sanders Backs Dean For HHS Post

The Hill | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is the latest lawmaker to back Howard Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, for secretary of Hea...

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Daschle and The Noise of Democracy

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Stiehm

Sen. Edward Kennedy told me Daschle was a "Senator's senator." He became known for doing the right thing for the right reasons.

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Where the Devil is Dr. Dean?

Pia Sawhney | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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Pia Sawhney

After learning more about Daschle's decision to pull out, I posted an OpEd, published weeks earlier in The Nation, to my Facebook page. It was titled, "Missing Howard Dean."

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Leading Healthcare Change: No Room for Politics as Usual

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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Dr. Peter Klatsky

We are facing incredibly difficult decisions, but policies implemented today will help us to live healthier, longer lives, while also saving billions of dollars.

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Deliberating on Daschle

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

Critics of President Obama will use the Daschle incident to claim that Obama is not really about change, and is captive of the same politicians and lobbyists who have always run Washington.

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Danger: Creeping Puritanism

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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Amitai Etzioni

Tom Daschle's resignation should have been accepted, however, that of Nancy Killefer should have been refused. Responses must be tailored to the "sin." Not all imperfections make a person unfit for office.

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Daschle's Situation, and the Small-Dollar Solution

Joe Trippi | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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Joe Trippi

Like many decent people, Daschle got caught in a bad system that is so corrupted by money it hardly matters whether the money is from good people with good intentions or bad people with bad intentions.

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Howard Dean Must Be Losing It

Jake Goldman | Posted 03.07.2009 | Comedy

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Jake Goldman

Howard Dean is sitting in a chair in his underwear, eating a bowl of beans with a fork. His hair is really messed up. The TV is blaring an interview between President Barack Obama and NBC News Anchor, Brian Williams.

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Jason Linkins

CQ's Crawford Suggests Newt Gingrich For HHS

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media

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Over at Congressional Quarterly, Craig Crawford is having himself an idea on who might be a good replacement for Tom Daschle. On the one hand, there'...

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Daschle's Premature Dash

Dylan Loewe | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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Dylan Loewe

The only thing more implausible than believing that a multi-millionaire with national ambitions would willfully try to defraud the IRS of $140,000 is believing that a man like that actually does his own taxes.

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Tax Avoidance as the New "Sin"

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics

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Mark Goulston, M.D.

The modern version of: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" has arrived. It is: "Let he (or she) who has not told his accountant to do whatever they can in order to pay the least taxes cast the first stone."

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The Untold Daschle Story: The Blacklisting of Progressive Economics

David Sirota | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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David Sirota

Though Obama won on promises to challenge Wall Street, there has been a calculated effort to stack the administration with the very Wall Street Democrats who created the problems he lamented.

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Cohn: Daschle Won't Kill Universal Health Care

The New Republic | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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Can health care reform go ahead, this year, even without Tom Daschle? Yes. Does this episode--and Daschle's absence--make the task of enacting health...

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Why Is Daschle Out and Geithner In?

Jamie Court | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Court

Daschle isn't irreplaceable for health care reformers, but Obama would make a big mistake in appointing a replacement with any lessor convictions on a public heath care option.

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Obama Considers Tax on Cabinet

Andy Borowitz | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics

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Andy Borowitz

President Obama is mulling a controversial new tax program that would require members of his Cabinet to pay taxes owed under the Federal tax code, the White House confirmed today.

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Jason Linkins

Old Daschle Campaign Ad Stresses Frugality, Ugly Pontiac

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media

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Those who defend Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle on the recently revealed news that he failed to pay taxes on the most expensive car ser...

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CNN's Gupta: Not What the Doctor Ordered

James Floyd, M.D. | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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James Floyd, M.D.

Gupta downplays safety risks in treatments, and was criticized for his reporting on Vioxx, a pain medication that was withdrawn from the market in 2004 because it causes heart attacks.

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Daschle Pushed Patron For Obama Job: Dem

Politico | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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Tom Daschle backed the patron who paid him a million-dollar salary and supplied him with a free car and driver for a job inside the Obama administrati...

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An Open Letter to Tom Daschle

Mimi Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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Mimi Kennedy

You are a delinquent taxpayer, which undermines our trust in your fiscal judgment.

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Why Obama Must Drop Daschle

Andy Ostroy | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

Let's face it, there's plenty of folks who can fill Daschle's post. He's an extraneous piece of the Obama puzzle.

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Steele Urges GOP To Oppose Daschle Over Taxes

Legum's New Line | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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In a combative telephone interview with USA Today, RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that all Republicans should oppose Tom Daschle's nomination as sec...

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The Case For Hypocrisy

Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics

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Stuart Whatley

The Obama administration, at least in some of these cases, should be lauded, not excoriated, for ignoring its own rules.

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Health Care Groups Paid Daschle Over $200,000 In Past Two Years

Politico | Kenneth Vogel | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

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Tom Daschle, tapped to be President Obama's health czar, was paid more than $200,000 by the health-care industry in the past two years, according to d...

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Daschle Chief Of Staff Violates New Lobbyist Rule

Politico | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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The new chief of staff to health reform czar Tom Daschle was a lobbyist through late last year and will have to recuse himself from issues he worked t...

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