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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Home at last

AP writer Chet Brokaw provides some insight (perhaps unwittingly) into why forrmer Senate Minority leader Tom Daschle lost his bid for re-election last year with this opening sentence:

"Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, in his first visit to his home state since losing the November election, served notice Tuesday that he will continue to debate President Bush and the Republican Party on policy issues."

Tuesday would have marked approximately five months since the election, and three months since Daschle would have vacated his office on Capitol Hill. Yet he still had not managed a trip "home" to South Dakota to see the folks he purported to represent. Representative government, anyone?

posted by Hal | 1:02 AM

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