Daschle curries favor with Buzzflash

Tom Daschle sent Buzzflash a copy of the statement he made on the floor of the Senate yesterday, blasting the Bush administration for "attacking good people for telling the truth." He also e-mailed the statement to those on his DASHPAC e-mail list, and the DSCC's blog has the statement. The "Buzzflash Note" is a priceless backhanded compliment:

BuzzFlash readers know that we have been highly critical of Tom Daschle's performance as Minority Leader in the Senate. In fact, we have repeatedly called for his resignation in editorials and headlines. However, his Senate office sent us the following statement that Daschle made on the Senate floor this week, and we want to say, finally, "Good job Senator Daschle!"

We hope that this indicates a new trend in Daschle's stance, and that we will see fewer comments that end up being used on the Bush/Cheney weblog to indicate that Daschle supports many of Bush's policies, including his conduct of the Iraq War.

But we are open minded and glad to give credit where credit is due.

As far as the following statement by Senator Daschle, BuzzFlash says, "Keep it up, Senator! Nicely said, indeed."

(Emphasis added.) Could this be an indication that Daschle's people are frequently reading the Dakota Alliance of blogs?

Of course, Daschle has his own problems with attacking good people for telling the truth.