Raw Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
What, exactly, does president-elect Barack Obama's mild-mannered choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, former senator Tom Daschle, have to do with neo-conservatives who want to bomb Iran?
Burning Cane (Free subscription) | yesterday
Still Preparing to Attack Iran The Neoconservatives in the Obama Era By Robert Dreyfuss TomDispatch.com What, exactly, does Barack Obama's mild-mannered choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, former Senator Tom Daschle, have to do with neocons who want to bomb Iran? A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects Barack Obama's proposed talks with Iran to...
s o s (Free subscription) | yesterday
What, exactly, does president-elect Barack Obama's mild-mannered choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, former senator Tom Daschle, have to do with neo-conservatives who want to bomb Iran? A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners and neo-cons expects Obama's proposed talks with Iran to fail - and they're already proposing an escalating set of measures instead. Some are meant to...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
What, exactly, does Barack Obama's mild-mannered choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, former Senator Tom Daschle, have to do with neocons who want to bomb Iran? A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects Barack Obama's proposed talks with Iran to fail - and they're already proposing an escalating set of measures instead. Some are meant to occur alongside...
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Last week the Obama Transition Team's Health Policy Team solicited ideas from voters on revamping the health care industry. In this video to supporters released this afternoon, Health Policy Team members Lauren Aronson and Tom Daschle -- President-elect Obama's nominee...
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
More than 3,500 reader comments later, we’re excited to report on the success of our recent community discussion on health care, the first open conversation of its kind on Change.gov. Members of our Health care Transition team, including former Senator Tom Daschle, were eager to dig in to the comments and find out more about the issues and concerns that drove the community conversation online. Here's...
Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Dear President-Elect Obama: Yesterday was World AIDS Day. As you begin your new administration, there is a two-fold question regarding HIV/AIDS that I must ask: You have nominated Tom Daschle to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. What is going to be the Obama Administration policy on the administration of Federal HIV/AIDS dollars? Please explain to me why, [...]
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
On ABC's World News on Tuesday night, anchor Charles Gibson ran down the list of all the Obama cabinet appointments so far, and never found a liberal label for any of them, from Hillary Clinton to Tom Daschle. ABC reporter Jake Tapper followed with the President-elect's newest budget nominees: "Mr. Obama today appointed experts from Capitol Hill to run his Office of Management and Budget. To be headed...
DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Read it. Daschle envisions this nationalized system, which is being described in doublespeak because Daschle, et al know there is little appetite in America for a total government takeover of health care, as being overseen by a health care equivalent of the Federal Reserve which utilizes the power of the government to “ensure harmonization” within American [...]
Red State (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
John Goodman, head of the National Center for Policy Analysis, breaks down Obama HHS Secretary Tom Daschle's philosophy on health care reform, as expressed in his book Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis , thusly: The main ideas: Medicaid expansion, Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) for everyone who wants to enroll, Medicare for the nonelderly as a FEHBP option, a...
Brian Beutler (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The Washington Times harrumphs at Tom Daschle: Although his board would technically have no say on the 68 percent of health care that is provided through the private sector, Mr. Daschle modestly adds: “Congress could opt to go further with the Board’s recommendations. It could, for example, link the tax exclusion for health insurance to insurance that complies with the Board’s recommendation.” Those...
Contrarian Musings (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Update1: Obama Picks Geithner as Treasury Secretary, Richardson as Commerce Secretary Update2: Obama Taps Clinton as Secretary of State Update3: Obama Selects Tom Daschle For Secretary of Health and Human Services Update4: Rahm Emanuel to be Whit House Chief-of-Staff Update5: Robert Gates as Defense Secretary Update6: Obama Chooses Paul Volcker as Economic Advisor Update7: Eric Holder named Attorney...
Heavy-Handed Politics (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Tom Daschle book lays out plan By Tony Blankley Washington Times As President-elect Obama's apparent choice for Health and Human Services Secretary and as White House health care czar, it is a fair guess that Tom Daschle's view on health-care legislation may be decisive. So it is worth reading his book "Critical: What we can do about the health-care crisis," in which the gracious former Senate leader...
South Dakota Politics (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The Politico:Barack Obama’s expected pick of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to be secretary of health and human services bumps up against the president-elect’s pledge to rid the White House of special interests. The former Democratic senator from South...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
I'm a bit surprised by the equanimity, at a minimum, with which many conservatives have greeted Obama's decision to appoint the likes of Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle, and Rahm Emanuel to key positions in his administration. But I probably shouldn't be. We've seen this before. President Clinton's selection of Stephen Breyer for the Supreme Court was greeted by conservatives with the same sort of relief...
