danajohnhill.org | Hard Times Come Again No More

…That Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination.  Sure, most of his tax problems were ones I could imagine happening to anyone who has multiple sources of income, and spends money in ways that I do not, like receiving rides in limousines and airplanes.  And I am still shocked and appalled at the ways in which the rich are not paying their taxes.  If I owed the IRS over $100,000 I’d probably be in jail.  But all that aside, I think that Tom Daschle, however nice a person he is in his private life, was an exceptionally weak senator who wasn’t strong enough to win reelection for his seat, much less effectively execute a leadership role when he had that opportunity.  I feel the same way about Harry Reed today, and Nancy Pelosi in the house.  They are lame.  The Republicans lost power because their ideas were bad, and their execution of those ideas was even worse.  Also, many of them were terrifically corrupt.  But Tom Delay was no weakling, and Newt Gingrich had guts.  I think they’re both awful people, but they did what their constituents wanted them to do.

I think Barack Obama is a smart, capable man.  I want him to be surrounded by other smart, capable people.  Tom Daschle doesn’t seem very capable to me.

Filed under: Current Events, Politics on February 3rd, 2009