Legal Commentary

TPM: Daschle's Actions "Business As Usual"

By Big Tent Democrat

Change we can believe in?:

Individually, each charge -- with the exception, perhaps of the until-recently-unpaid taxes on the InterMedia car and driver -- might be seen as not much more than business as usual for a former Congressional leader who has slipped through Washington's revolving door to offer his contacts and expertise to private interests. But cumulatively, they paint a picture of a Washington insider who, at best, has grown negligent about tracking the various forms of compensation he's receiving.

(Emphasis supplied.) So the new Obama slogan will be "Business as usual we can believe in?" Again, I never much cared about all this, but I did detest the sanctimonious BS that got flung around regarding all the "change" we would see.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).