I am talking about Daschle going on a tirade over a Washington Post article that liberally (hah!) edited Bush's comments to connote an entirely different meaning. The thrust of the Post article was that Bush was behaving in a partisan fashion, claiming Democrats were not interested in homeland security. Trouble is, tapes of the event clearly show that Bush went out of his way to address both parties and to not be partisan in any way. He even complimented leaders on both sides of the aisle. To say the least, Daschle should have known better, and he should have apologized. He did not, and he wouldn't back off at all. Very bad advice from the DNC or someone close to him I suppose, because he wound up looking either foolish or dishonest or both.
If Daschle is arguably one of the figureheads of the party (I assume he is) he did the party no favors. It's only amazing the press didn't rip him more than they did.
