Quote of the Day

"People inside the Beltway often have an inflated sense of the impact of what happens in Washington. There's a great disconnect between what's talked about in the salons of Washington and [over] the kitchen tables of South Dakota." - Daschle deputy campaign manager Dan Pfeiffer, in a lame attempt at portraying Thune as a Beltway insider and Daschle as a Beltway outsider. Ironically, no other campaign has been more effective than Daschle's at exploiting the "disconnect" between what Daschle says in the salon of his $1.9 million home in Washington, DC, and what he says in South Dakota. Hugh Hewitt provides the most recent example.