Daschle is not the right man for rescuing our health care system. He's the right man to protect corporate interests, to put on a show of smoke and mirrors. Give the job to Dean.
Jake Goldman | Posted 03.07.2009 | Comedy
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media
The whole world is performing their post-mortem wrestle with the departure of Tom Daschle from the Obama administration, and What It Means. For my mo...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
Obama is in danger of seeing his first 100 days derailed. So far, he's been on the defensive, apologizing for the ways of old Washington. He wasn't elected to restore the Clinton era, but to usher in his own.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
The expansion of SCHIP is a historic health care development and is a reminder that despite the drama, President Obama is able to deliver the change he promised.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media
I've heard it said that good journalism afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted, but for my money, I love an article that includes insight...
Paul Szep | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
In her New York Times column Wednesday, Maureen Dowd suggests that Tom Daschle's withdrawal from contention as nominee to run Health and Human Service...
Dylan Loewe | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
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.
New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business
In just a couple of hours on Tuesday, two high-level nominees for jobs in the Obama administration took themselves out of the running because of tax p...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
There's no way that Rahm Emanuel's animosity toward Dean can be explained away if they pass over him again, especially given his tremendous success at the DNC.
washingtonpost.com | Ceci Connolly | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Long before the Senate had a chance to consider his nomination to be secretary of health and human services, Thomas A. Daschle was hard at work pressi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Serious and occasionally somber, Barack Obama launched a massive media blitz Tuesday evening to address a variety of topics that have consumed his adm...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics
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."
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
President Obama did a series of television interviews Tuesday with the intention of promoting his stimulus plan. But with two of his nominees withdraw...
David Sirota | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
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.
The New Republic | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
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...
Jamie Court | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
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.
John McQuaid | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The Daschle-Geithner-Killefer tax goof is based on an almost-unconscious hope that the system they theoretically want to work ... won't.
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Tom Daschle's withdrawal leaves an opening at Health and Human Services. Howard Dean is the man for that job.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration expressed contrition and sadness over the withdrawal of Tom Daschle's nomination to head the Department of Health and Human S...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Tom Daschle, Obama's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, has withdrawn from contention after failing to pay taxes on a car service. The a...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Additional reporting by Sam Stein and Rachel Weiner WASHINGTON -- Tom Daschle withdrew Tuesday as President Barack Obama's nominee to be health and h...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media
One of the unseen costs of Tom Daschle using up all of America's car services is that ordinary war-mongering political has-beens are forced to fend fo...
Rob Kall | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics