UPDATE: Our apologies. Turns out this is actually a photo of Al Capone, a completely different tax cheat.
Andrea Mitchell feels badly for tax-dodgin’ Tom Daschle. She really does.
“I just got off the phone with Tom Daschle,” she said sympathetically on MSNBC. “And it was an emotional conversation…it sounded as though he were tearful, overwrought.”
When Republican Senator Jim DeMint contended that Democrat support for Daschle’s nomination had wavered, Mitchell was clearly upset. “You can say that the Democrats were uncomfortable as well,” Mitchell lectured, “but they were all supporting him publicly.”
“So this does read to the public as though the Republicans went after this man,” she wondered aloud, “someone that the President very much wanted, and brought him down.”
Like opposing the confirmation of a felonious tax cheat is a bad thing?
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