August 25, 2009
Cheapshot: Tom Daschle
Shocked, shocked, shocked to read in the Sunday New York Times that Tom Daschle, once nominated but then withdrawn as health and human service secretary and head ObamaCare flogger, is still an Administration insider even though he’s dragging down big bucks from Alston & Bird, a legal and lobbying firm. According to the Times, Alston & Bird represents “insurance giant UnitedHealth and the Tennessee Hospital Association.” Daschle wiggles and squirms, but apparently admits to advising, in words of the Times, “private clients on the one hand and advising the White House on the other.” Sounds not so much like hand jive as mouth music, both sides.
