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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
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FOXNews.com brings us the following NEWS and it starts off like this... Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination for health and human services secretary, after fielding mounting criticism over his failure to pay more than $130,000 in taxes... President Obama stood by Daschle Monday, telling reporters that he “absolutely” supports the former South Dakota senator. But the president accepted Daschle’s withdrawal Tuesday morning... It was unclear whether Daschle, with his deep network of ties in the Senate stemming in part from his time as majority leader, would have been able to weather the criticism in confirmation... Senators were reluctant to state publicly any opposition to Daschle's nomination in recent days. But that started to crack Tuesday morning, as Republican Sen. Jim DeMint called for Obama to withdraw the nomination -- becoming the first senator to say that the former majority leader's tax problems are disqualifying...
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Daschle Withdraws Nomination for Health and Human Services Secretary
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FOXNews.com brings us the following NEWS and it starts off like this... Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination for health and human services secretary, after fielding mounting criticism over his failure to pay more than $130,000 in taxes... President Obama stood by Daschle Monday, telling reporters that he “absolutely” supports the former South Dakota senator. But the president accepted Daschle’s withdrawal Tuesday morning... It was unclear whether Daschle, with his deep network of ties in the Senate stemming in part from his time as majority leader, would have been able to weather the criticism in confirmation... Senators were reluctant to state publicly any opposition to Daschle's nomination in recent days. But that started to crack Tuesday morning, as Republican Sen. Jim DeMint called for Obama to withdraw the nomination -- becoming the first senator to say that the former majority leader's tax problems are disqualifying...
Read the story at link below...
Daschle Withdraws Nomination for Health and Human Services Secretary
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Daschle Withdraws Nomination for HHS Secretary
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Daschle Withdraws Nomination for HHS Secretary
About News Video: Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination for secretary of health and human services amid a tax problem.
News Video posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress
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News Video posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress
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Daschle should have bailed last week... or sooner. He would have saved himself, his family, his Party and his President a LOT of grief!
But... we'll take it...
AubreyJ.........
Daschle should have bailed last week... or sooner. He would have saved himself, his family, his Party and his President a LOT of grief!
But... we'll take it...
AubreyJ.........
