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Article: Democratic party is skipping off to the left. (the last word).(Tom Daschle Senate United States)
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- Insight on the News
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- February 4, 2003
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After Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) delivered a sobbing and teeth-gnashing speech on the Senate floor last fall attacking President George W. Bush for "politicizing the debate on war with Iraq" there were raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill and among those in the media not in thrall to Democratic "liberalism." The question was asked, in seriousness or in jest: "Is Tom Daschle on the Republican payroll?" It was not that his performance was, as a member of the Roman senate might have said, infra dignitatem. Brutus did much better in his funeral speech after sticking a dagger into Caesar.
This is all well past, and by now Daschle has realized that his mawkish rhetoric did ...