One slightly sidelined point: There were some dark stories yesterday about Daschle friend and employer Leo Hindrey. TPM, in a weird take, noted that Leo Hindery, who's chiefly known for being a rich businessman, is in fact a rich businessman. Later on, Politico came out with the story that Daschle had pushed for Hindery as Secretary of Commerce.So who is Hindery? In short, he's a progressive rich guy. He made hundreds of million in telecommunications, then founded a sports network, then ran a public equity firm. In recent years, he's become a rare creature in progressive politics: A very rich, very vocal, labor-liberal. He was a senior economic policy adviser to John Edwards and, when he endorsed Barack Obama, he said he was doing so because Barack Obama "believes in all workers having an easy and unrestricted ability to join a union, including part-time and contract workers...in fairer and more progressive individual income taxation...[because] at the core of his Campaign and its economic policies are his abiding commitments to working men and women and to economic fairness." This is not the sort of rhetoric you tend to hear from wildly successful corporate executives. But it's the sort of rhetoric you wish you heard from wildly successful corporate executives. More to the point, it's surely not the sort of rhetoric you're going to hear from Secretary Gregg. Frankly, on this one, Daschle was right. LEO HINDERY FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY.
One slightly sidelined point: There were some dark stories yesterday about Daschle friend and employer Leo Hindrey. TPM, in a weird take, noted that Leo Hindery, who's chiefly known for being a rich businessman, is in fact a rich businessman. Later on, Politico came out with the story that Daschle had pushed for Hindery as Secretary of Commerce.So who is Hindery? In short, he's a progressive rich guy. He made hundreds of million in telecommunications, then founded a sports network, then ran a public equity firm. In recent years, he's become a rare creature in progressive politics: A very rich, very vocal, labor-liberal. He was a senior economic policy adviser to John Edwards and, when he endorsed Barack Obama, he said he was doing so because Barack Obama "believes in all workers having an easy and unrestricted ability to join a union, including part-time and contract workers...in fairer and more progressive individual income taxation...[because] at the core of his Campaign and its economic policies are his abiding commitments to working men and women and to economic fairness." This is not the sort of rhetoric you tend to hear from wildly successful corporate executives. But it's the sort of rhetoric you wish you heard from wildly successful corporate executives. More to the point, it's surely not the sort of rhetoric you're going to hear from Secretary Gregg. Frankly, on this one, Daschle was right. 
