Dave Kranz, Tom Daschle's long-time college buddy, has an article in today's Argus in which he's whining about the Republican Senate Committee's press release about Thune's victory. The problem is that when the Democratic Senate Committee wrote a release in May gloating over the closure of Ellsworth KRANZ SAID NOTHING. You see, it's only bad when Republicans do something according to Kranz. What Kranz doesn't mention is that the GOP release yesterday was just reprinting the Democratic release from May to make the point about the Democrats gloating over closure.
Sibby has more on Kranz's long-time college buddy:
Then yesterday Tom Daschle downplays the importance of the Ellsworth issue. Excerpt from a Rapid City Journal report:
Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle said Friday that the debate over the future of Ellsworth Air Force Base during last year's Senate race was "overblown."
In downplaying the significance in last year's campaign, he said Friday: "I think that part of it was overblown from the very beginning."But the report goes on to disclose what Daschle did during the 2004 campaign:
In the months leading up to the 2004 election, Daschle used radio, television and full-page newspaper ads to emphasize his leadership post, his past efforts to support Ellsworth and the power he would have in the coming BRAC round.
In a debate a few weeks before the election, Daschle revealed that he had convinced President Bill Clinton to personally intervene during the 1995 BRAC round and have Ellsworth removed from the closure list. ...Daschle’s selfishness was again evident with this quote from the RCJ report:
He said he would not be able to call Thune to congratulate him.
"I am in Western Montana, so I'm not in a very good position to make calls," he said in a telephone interview. He said he would be "contacting the delegation and giving them my best wishes."Wow…in a phone interview Daschle was "not in a very good position to make calls". Or should we say calls to John Thune.
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