Well, Rush wasn’t in this week, which was actually pretty nice because some of the people he’s had on filling in are for more sane that he is, and it makes listening slightly less painful. I say slightly because for the most part they’re all nuts on talk radio.
This week’s big topic has been Tom Daschle, and the NY Times. The latter being one of right wing radios favorite targets. I have to say I kind of agree with the nuts though on this one, because they really aren’t hammering down on Daschle (at least the couple articles I read), and if the shoe was on the other foot (and he was a Republican) I doubt there would be a lot of wishy-washy, aw shucks, he tried to do so much good write-ups.
They even make it sound like his pseudo-lobbying is somehow admirable because “he never took the next step” to actually go up to the Hill to lobby…..blah, blah, blah.
I will say that every time a Democrat fails to pay their taxes it looks pretty awful. When you’re all about asking people to do their part with paying taxes, it’s kind of important that you do your part as well, and pay up.
The whole issue over the car and driver probably isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but perception is everything.
Here is a snippet from the NY Times piece:
Those competing ambitions collided this week, as Mr. Daschle withdrew from consideration for the health secretary’s job amid an uproar over his failure to pay $128,000 in taxes for a private car and driver provided by a prominent Democratic donor, coupled with public shock that a man who left the Senate on a $158,000-a-year salary had gone on to earn $5 million in the four years since leaving office.
“He got caught in this backlash against high-level compensation,” said former Senator Bob Kerrey, now president of New School University in New York. “I think he drew a pretty clear line around what he wanted to do to earn a living — he could have made a lot more money if he had registered as a lobbyist but he didn’t want do it — and he carved out a lot of time for forms of public service for which there is no remuneration.”
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