New Senate <i>Plurality</i> Leader Tommy Daschle

New Senate Plurality Leader Tommy Daschle

Dan Frisa
Tuesday, June 5, 2001

Better known as half of the political comedy team familiar to Washington insiders as the "Smothers Brothers" – Tom "Tommy Smothers" Daschle, D-S.D., and his sidekick in the house, Richard "Dicky Smothers" Gephardt, D-Mo., have been obstructionists for the past five and a half months, doing everything in their power to lie, exaggerate and frighten Americans in their efforts to thwart the commonsense agenda of President George W. Bush.

Consistently aided by their left-wing allies in the mainstream media, Tommy and Dicky Smothers have taken hyperbole to previously unheard-of heights.

You see, Tommy and Dicky – Washington's Smothers Brothers – have essentially made themselves a joke by incessantly deriding the Bush agenda, not on the merits but, rather, by virtue of their outlandish lies.

What is interesting is that Daschle is nothing more than the new plurality leader in the U.S. Senate, and that's because Tommy is only leader of fifty of one hundred in the Senate as compared to forty-nine Republicans and one Independent; and that's only a plurality.

James "Jello" Jeffords' one-man coup only gave the left-wing Democrats in the Senate a plurality, heh, heh!

Therefore, Daschle is merely the new plurality leader in the Senate.

Hopefully Trent Lott's newfound nerve is a true indication of his political plans for the future, for it is true that he is the undisputed Minority Leader.

Let's hope he's more up to this job than the one he held as he allowed the true Republican majority to literally sell out the party and waltz across the aisle.

As for Tommy and Dicky Smothers, they are still only a comedy team comprised of a plurality leader and a minority leader; in sum, the two of them don't even add up a whole.

Of course, you'd never know that from their pals in the left-wing mainstream media.

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Dan Frisa represented New York in the United States Congress and served four terms in the New York State Assembly.

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