More on Daschle's "independent voice"

I noted earlier that Tom Daschle is starting to float the idea that he is an "independent voice" despite the fact that Americans for Democratic Action gives him a lifetime liberal quotient of 83 percent. A Senate Democrat who could more legitimately be labeled an "independent voice" is John Breaux of Louisiana, who has a lifetime average liberal quotient of 55 percent. Interestingly, Tom Daschle was reportedly furious at John Breaux for exercising his independent voice in supporting the Bush tax cuts in 2001. That is a telling indication of Tom Daschle's "independent voice."