Tom Daschle

Add the New York Times to the list of newspaper editorial boards that want Norm Coleman to quit while he’s behind.
UPDATED after the jump with more new newspaper editorials.

The Minnesota GOP dropped a new web video today, linking Al Franken’s failure to properly pay taxes to Obama cabinet nominees like Timothy Geithner (now Treasury Secretary) and would’ve-been HHS secretary Tom Daschle. But it’s not clear who the video is aimed at influencing. The general election is long over and while the ad my [...]

Here’s an ironic footnote to news that Sen. Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat and Obama’s pick for Health and Human Services head, failed to pay taxes related to a Cadillac that carried him about Washington for three years: An old (but undated) campaign ad has surfaced on YouTube, and it praises Daschle’s frugality for [...]

While Rep. Jim Ramstad’s name has been floated as a possible choice for “drug czar” in the administration of Barack Obama, the retiring nine-term congressman has apparently set his sights on another job, head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — and the Republican has enlisted Democrats, notably Sen. Edward Kennedy and Reps. Patrick Kennedy and Pete Stark, to lobby on his behalf.