Interesting dilemma

Bob Novak has an interesting blurb
in his column today on a dilemma that Tom Daschle faces on bankruptcy legislation:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has devised an agonizing dilemma for Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle that forces him to choose between his farm constituency and the feminist lobby.

In the House, DeLay has attached personal bankruptcy reform to a bill extending the availability of bankruptcy for farmers. In the Senate, that reform bill has been stalled by Sen. Charles Schumer's amendment excluding violent abortion protesters from bankruptcy rights.

The Senate has passed the farmer bankruptcy bill by itself, but final passage will be endangered if Senate Democrats insist on joining it with the Schumer amendment. Daschle, facing a serious challenge to his re-election this year, must decide whether to alienate the feminists by ditching the Schumer amendment or to alienate his farmer constituents by permitting the whole bill to die.

For more information, see this AP report. (Via Sibby Online). Excerpt from the AP article:

Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, who supports both the farm bankruptcy bill and the bankruptcy legislation with the Democratic abortion provision, would not commit to the House GOP bill Tuesday. He has enough votes to filibuster the bill.

And the Argus Leader, of course, has yet to even publish the AP article, despite the fact that there is an abundance of information in the article relevant to South Dakotans.