Withdrawal of Daschle and Killefer

Daschle's withdrawal as HHS secretary nominee & Killefer's as "Performance Czar"--whatever that is--is probably just as well.  This is probably not the time to have a tin ear about the PR impact of being an apparent (or real) tax scofflaw.  Daschle supposedly had a reputation, at least with Republicans, as being a soft-spoken but hard-nosed minority leader in the Senate.  I can't recall any instances of that hard-nosed stuff. 

I hope that Howard Dean has got his, um, stuff together.  He is the guy I would like to see as head of HHS.  Not that there's ever much justice in politics, but there's hardly anyone more deserving...
 
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