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DASCHLED HOPES.(Tom Daschle)(Brief Article)

The American Enterprise

| October 01, 2001 | Lileks, James | COPYRIGHT 2001 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's job is simple: Find out what George Bush wants, and make sure it never happens. Bush endorses the rising of the sun in the east? Daschle sadly concludes that President Bush has abandoned the west in a risky scheme to give New Yorkers skin cancer.

Or, to choose a recent example: Bush proposes a consumer product safety commission chairman who thinks people are occasionally responsible for product misuse. Obviously, she's an industry shill. If people are burning their houses down by improperly cooking Pop-Tarts, Daschle's trial lawyer contributors are ready to help: Victims should be able to sue Kellogg's for not making a fireproof Pop-Tart with an internal thermometer and a self-extinguishing center. They should also be allowed to sue their HMOs for not paying for burn treatments that use the new Chilean Goat-Bile Paste treatment we read ...

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