Tom Daschle

AAPP: What happen to the president Obama's promise to break with the past and the new era of responsibility ? Why is the Washington culture of personal riches and buying positions still part of a new Obama administration ? As the NY Times notes, "During almost two years on the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to slay the demons of Washington , bar lobbyists from his administration and usher in what he would later call in his Inaugural Address a “new era of responsibility.”  My question... What happen Mr. President?      Yes, Tom Daschle is Out! President Obama acknowledged yesterday that he had ... Read Full Story

News sources, including CNN, are reporting the disturbing news of Tom Daschle's failure to pay his taxes and report earned income correctly in the amount of $140,167. Note how this information was released on Friday to downplay the negativity for the Democrats. Please also pay attention to the fact that the media is trying to keep us focused on Tom Daschle's failure to report taxable income from a car service he used. This way they keep the focus as Daschle simply making a mistake on his taxes. So here are the reporting mistakes Tom Daschle has made: 1) un-reported income in 2007 of $83,333. ... Read Full Story

Over the last five years while caring for my mother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease I received an education about our health care system. What can I say, it is ugly. During this period I have talked to 100s of older people and many baby boomer friends about the "Medicare donut hole". It is rare when I talk to someone that understands how it works. This includes people currently working in the field of medicine. The only people I ever meet that understand the "donut hole" are people that are paying one hundred percent of their prescription drug costs while in the hole. A ... Read Full Story

The Senate was set to approve President Barack Obama's nominee for health and human services secretary Tuesday, giving the agency a leader in the midst of the swine flu outbreak. Morning debate and an afternoon vote were scheduled to confirm Kathleen Sebelius, the two-term Democratic governor of Kansas. She was expected to get the 60 votes needed in the Democratic-led Senate, though perhaps with little margin to spare. Anti-abortion groups have been lobbying Republican senators to vote against Sebelius, criticizing her stances on abortion and her ties to a late-term abortion doctor who donated to her campaigns. Sebelius initially underreported to senators the size ... Read Full Story

The White House on Sunday brushed off questions about whether a lack of top health officials was making more difficult President Barack Obama's response to a swine flu outbreak. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration's response was competent even though the Senate has yet to confirm a secretary of human services, a surgeon general or a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The absence of those officials left Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and an acting CDC chief to brief reporters on the swine flu outbreak. "We are doing fine," Gibbs said. Obama's first pick to run the Health ... Read Full Story