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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Daschle Once Boasted Of Being Cheap

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 3 2009, 11:22 AM ET Comment

Check out an old campaign ad where Tom Daschle brags about his trusty old Pontiac, "among Washington's BMWs and limos"  which he drove to work for 15 years.  "Isn't it too bad the rest of Washington doesn't know that 'a penny saved is a penny earned.'"  Where is that Pontiac now, you ask? It's currently in a museum in South Dakota.



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