We are in a transitional period from "The Old Washington" to the "New Washington"

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

I really think that Daschle was rejected from the ground floor and worked it's way up, not in the other direction. We saw that the Senate was fully prepared to confirm him as part of the Old Boys Club. I think they might have been taken aback at the vehemence with which the American public rejected parts of the story:

Him keeping the problem under wraps way too long and putting his buddy Obama in a bad light - made him seem like a scheming opportunist who put his friend over a barrel. It would be different if he had disclosed and then Obama said "Let's go for it", but he didn't.

The original tax issue and the fact that it involved a car and driver - smacking of privilege and elitism

His ties to certain elements of the healthcare industry, which he himself characterized as a conflict. He said it, not someone else.

Americans of all persuasions,said "hey! wait a minute! that's NOT what I voted for"

There might actually be a new sheriff in town and it might be THE AMERICAN VOTER. It's a good thing.

[David Dunham]

1. No. Daschle knew how to get health care passed. Others don't.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. I find that to be so ridiculous. To think that there is ONE MAN

and one man only with the abilty to spearhead a drive to reform healthcare is specious at best. What if Daschle had been hit by a bus the day after his confirmation? Would that be it? Would healthcare reform forever be a lost cause? Take that argument and just shove it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. It it were the "new way" his name would have never come up the first

place. Daschle is a spineless gladhanding hack who was getting the job for being loyal.