Proof of principal

Tom Daschle seems like a nice guy.

I felt bad when he got beat as the minority leader, though I also thought it said something about his minority leadership that he was hardly the only one to lose that year.

His new glasses suit him.

And this tax business doesn't, on its face, worry me about his ability to formulate a workable health care plan.

But how much of an asset is he to the future of American health care? Is he truly irreplacable? Because if he's not, I think it's time for the Obama administration to put some teeth in their promises to be the best vetted administration in history, and send him packing. Showing a willingness to stand on principal here would undo the image that seems to be setting in in the wake of their pushing for Geitner (whose omissions seem worse to me) and waiving their own lobbying rules for two appointees and counting. They need to show that they're not all talk. Daschle didn't disclose his issue. A loss here seems to me that it would be a win in the long term.

JEK
Available, drives his own car

Late Update: Nailed it.