DASCHLE'S CLINTONIAN TONGUE
THE SENATE'S LITTLE "EDDIE HASKELL"
By: Barbara Stanley
If it weren’t so dangerous, it would have been funny to watch and listen to Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle’s recent appearance and comments, which, seemingly, are a transparent move to kick off his presidential campaign, or Hillary’s at best and, at worst, to harm the current administration and George W. Bush. There he was, Mr. NoPersonality, Mr. CalmDemeanor, Mr. Levelheaded Daschle, breathlessly trying to sound like he cares, like he really loves us… but it just rang hollow. Sounding more like a Marilyn Monroe, (or Cheryl Mills of impeachment fame) Tom added unfamiliar (to him and us) emotive feelings to his words of concern. I must admit it was humorous to me, seeing this heretofore emotionless man trying to hard to be a feeling, emotive person, one of the little guys whose vote he woos. And, while you’re at Mr. Senator, if you’re gonna wear make-up, find someone who knows what they’re doing or make a quick trip to the cosmetic counter at your local mall. Blush, lipstick and mascara really need an expert touch when worn by a man. And, also, it’s one thing to dye the hair for that youthful look, but remember the eyebrows need to match the thatch.
There he was, as his familiar old self with the new emotional and passionate voice, spouting the same old lies: that the recession is Bush’s fault, that somehow we, the people, wanting to keep more of our own money via the recent tax cuts are at fault for the slump in the economy. How the fact that the recessive mood of the market, which began during the Clinton final years, can be blamed on the current President seems not to have dawned on Mr. Daschle. Smacks of the odious Mr. Carville, of Clinton campaign fame, “it’s-the-economy-stupid” tactics, eh? Straight out of the Carville playbook, blame the current republican for whatever dire circumstances the former democrat administration caused. Yet again, the truth is the first victim in this new, yet old, political war.
It may have escaped some, but it hasn’t escaped me, that the concentration on the domestic issue of the economy, which Mr. Carville stressed during the Clinton campaign, while letting foreign policy fade into the background, gave us the current War, with Mr. Clinton constantly talking out of both sides of his mouth. An example: Governor Clinton spoke of being hard on the Chinese Communists, tying their human rights record to preferred nation status yet after he was elected, he wound up selling out his own country’s most secret technology to the very same Chinese communists for campaign cash. From the Chicoms to the world and every enemy of America and there’s goes non-proliferation, too. Oh, nice. And now it continues, with Daschle trashing the republicans and relying on the liberal propaganda machine, laughingly referred to as ‘the media’, to drum home his message.
But, while some things never change, some things do. And the Internet is supplanting the dissemination of truth over the lapdog media and more and more Americans, everyday, are finding out that the words and deeds of the democrats exist in the fantastic world of power held under any circumstances, truth be damned.
Recently, Majority Leader in the House Dick Armey made some comments to a NYC radio program and what he said sums up the situation we now have before us and shall be subjected to for the duration. Armey referred to Daschle as the “Eddie Haskell” of the Senate. As some of you may remember from the sitcom Leave It To Beaver of the fifties, Haskell, acted by Ken Osmond was the smarmy teenager who played the foil to the squeaky-clean and guileless Jerry Mathers, who played the Beaver. Haskell was the little devil on the Beav’s shoulder, always encouraging and advising the Beaver to do what was wrong, in any given situation. Yet, before the end of the show, the Beaver’s mom would always set things aright. Of course, Haskell was the model of decorum, the perfect gentlemen, with good manners and demeanor, all smiles to the adults in the family, the perfect two-faced little phony we, in the viewing audience, all saw him to be.
Mr. Armey said of Daschle’s recent tirade against the republicans: "One of the ironies was when (Daschle) started to sort of tick off his programs, his recommendations, essentially what you got was stuff that's passed the House, that he demonizes, that is blocked and held up in the Senate." Armey continued with his succinct pearls of truth: "I'm sitting here looking at a guy who has blocked everything we've sent up there, whether it be an energy policy, whether it's been a tax stimulus package or whatever. And then he says we (Republicans) are the problem."
How, you might ask, can Daschle get away with this? Dick Armey has the answer, in his remarks about how the liberal press supports the democrats and protects them: "They know they will not be subjected to scrutiny by the press; but that the press will by-and-large be their echo chamber".
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