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<A title=nathanne@nathannewman.org
href="mailto:nathanne@nathannewman.org">Nathan Newman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 30, 2003 3:23
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Daschle eats his words, and
then some</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Largely because I disagree with your assessment
of Daschle. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>i didn't realize it was
that simple.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He's a piss-poor public speaker but
for two years, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>and i always thought public
speaking was his strong suit. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>he's kept the Dems pretty solid in blocking a
range of Bush legislation and judges. With a not terrific hand, he's
actually blocked quite a bit of the damage Bush has tried to do, from Sutton
and Estrada to ANWR to the December Bush tax cut to the bankruptcy
bill.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>my goodness; his
accomplishments pale beside his failures.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think that's all pretty praisworthy in my
book</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#008000 size=2>to quote groucho
marx: "from the time i picked up your book to the time i put it
down, i was convulsed with laughter. someday i intend reading
it."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As for the column, check out the Progressive
Populist-- it runs twice a month at <A
href="http://www.populist.com">www.populist.com</A> :)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>thanks for the
warning.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rhisiart@earthlink.net href="mailto:rhisiart@earthlink.net">R</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 30, 2003 5:57
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Daschle eats his words,
and then some</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>nathan, it's interesting how
you continually put an intellectual face -- and rationale if one could call
it that -- on incompetence, weakness, corruption, failure and
stupidity. you find "reason" where there is none. strategy
among the hopeless and confused. and sense among the
senseless. you should be writing columns for a newspaper
somewhere; an embedded journalist for the fools paradise set.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=nathanne@nathannewman.org
href="mailto:nathanne@nathannewman.org">Nathan Newman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:23
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Daschle eats his words,
and then some</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "RE" <<A
href="mailto:earnest@tallynet.com">earnest@tallynet.com</A>><BR><BR><BR>>But
Daschle does seem to think that unless he apologizes he will be
in<BR>>trouble, so he believes someone is paying
attention. It's just not<BR>clear<BR>>to me if
he is being overwhelmed by public opinion's vagaries, or
allowing<BR>>himself to be overwhelmed in a masochistic, stupefying
gesture. In that<BR>>respect I wish he'd just keep his
mouth shut in the first place, rather<BR>than<BR>>say "Look at me, I'm
powerful, and even I have to crumble and apologize."<BR><BR>Actually I
think it was more strategic than that, laying the political<BR>marker that
Bush had screwed up the diplomacy then signing off for
the<BR>duration. And he never apologized for the analysis, only for
the timing--<BR>which in many ways is a great way to appear to apologize
while not<BR>withdrawing the substance of the criticism. When things
go bad, despite<BR>official Dem support for the troops, the GOP won't be
able to then say that<BR>it was really a bipartisan
position.<BR><BR>Daschle and the Dems are trying to have their cake
(criticize Bush) and eat<BR>it too (appear supportive of the troops).
There may be better strategic ways<BR>to do it, but I think people are
overemphasizing the apology and not enought<BR>the substance of the
criticism.<BR><BR>--
Nathan<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>