Daschle's spine implant appears to be taking.
http://democrats.senate.gov/~dpc/releases/2004323740.html
Floor Statement of Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle on the Administration Attacking Good People for Telling the Truth
"I want to talk this morning about a disturbing pattern of conduct by the people around President Bush. They seem to be willing to do anything for political purposes, regardless of the facts and regardless of what's right....
More at link.
Also, it strikes me that there's a strange sense to Shrub's policy objectives. I was listening to someone on the radio talking about what key items were presented to the incoming Bush Administration by the Clinton folks to aid the transition... and what the Bush cabal has focused on. I was struck, of course, by the complete rupture and disconnect from reality. But suddenly, I realized that Shrub's focus makes sense. If you look at it just right, and squint hard.
Star Wars
Russia
Iraq
That's the core of the 2001 focus. How does that make sense? It's easy. It's obvious! It's... exactly what the Bush White House was obsessed with, and needed to be focused on in 1989... and would have been focused on in 1993, had there been a second term for George.
Shrub is simply trying to do what his father did, or should have done.
It's Groundhog Day all over again. He's trying to bail daddy out, do it right, square things up....
Scary.