Emily Yoffe - Tom Daschle's Golden Rule - washingtonpost.com

By Emily Yoffe Tuesday, February 3, 2009; Page Like many Americans whose steady, reliable job has suddenly disappeared, when Thomas Daschle was laid off in 2004 by the people of South Dakota, after more than two decades of representing them in Congress, he cobbled together a bunch of gigs. There was the day job at the law firm Alston & Bird that must have been blessedly free of the kind of dull legal minutiae that makes up many a billable hour, since Daschle is not a lawyer. That paid $2.1 million over the past two years. read the rest of the article at... Emily Yoffe - Tom Daschle's Golden Rule - washingtonpost.com