Wrong about Daschle
You are all wrong about Daschle! He was irreplaceable. Not because of his personal talents or lack of them, not even because of his smart glasses.
He was Health's Barack Obama. He could do business with the business end of the industry (as some of you pointed out) and business as well with the politicians, in particular with the Democrats who might now want to trumpet their own reforms. He gave everyone a stake in change.
There is no-one else who can do this. Literally no-one. (Howard Dean? Marygrav - the good doctor would get nowhere.) De Gaulle was right (cemeteries and irreplaceable men) but he would have made an exception for Tom Daschle. And it is fascinating that Obama held on to him for reasons eerily similar to the reasons Bush held onto any number of pals he arguably should have jettisoned .
Well, anyway ....
On the eve of Another Big Week for Obama (and the world economy) there is from the Midwest.
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